Mr Ghaleb Cachalia

Ghaleb Cachalia

About Ghaleb Cachalia

Committee Meetings Attended

  • Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Listeriosis outbreak and recall of certain products by retailers; with Ministers of Trade and Industry & Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
    28 Mar 2018

    The Department of Trade and Industry informed the Committees that the Department was the custodian of the Consumer Protection Act, 2008.  In November 2017 the Minister of Health had announced that South Africa was experiencing a Listeriosis outbreak caused by bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes. A multi-departmental Task Team was formed ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition Copyright Bill Subcommittee: regulation of Collecting Societies
    28 Mar 2018

    The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) briefed the Sub-committee of Trade and Industry on matters of copyright in the regulation of collecting societies. The basis for the regulation of collecting societies was well established in the recommendations made in the Copyright Review Commission (CRC) report of 2011, which ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition South African National Accreditation System & National Metrology Institute of South Africa 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
    27 Mar 2018

    SANAS presented its strategic and annual performance plan (APP), and outlined its risk register as well as actions to improve management of the risks. In order to improve operational efficiency, SANAS would develop and implement a management development strategy, expand its assessor pool, and automate the accreditation processes. These actions ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
    22 Mar 2018

    Members considered and deliberated further on the outstanding issues that Members still needed to reach consensus on.  The Parliamentary Legal Advisor led the Members through the clauses, and outlined the following clauses for deliberations:

    • clauses 14 – whether the measure should only be available to citizens, or to all persons ...
  • Trade, Industry and Competition DTI 2018/9 Annual Performance Plan with Auditor-General input
    20 Mar 2018

    Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on its assessment and findings of the 2018/19 DTI Annual Performance Plan (APP). AGSA flagged certain indicators as misleading and those included:
    • Number of companies assisted under Export Marketing and Investment Assistance (EMIA) in supporting value added exports (target: 823);
    • ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: flagged clauses
    16 Mar 2018

    As the Subcommittee had not finished going through the flagged clauses in the 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill, the full Committee continued with these. The following concerns were discussed:
    • Whether credit providers and debt counsellors should be compelled to report reckless lending. This was flagged for further engagement ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition Copyright & National Credit Amendment Bills: Subcommittee reports; Committee Report on Sugar Industry oversight
    13 Mar 2018

    Committee Reports available once adopted

    The Portfolio Committee approved the additional nominees for the Copyright Amendment Bill technical panel and changes to its terms of reference and draft programme. The nominees are:
    • Adv Joel Baloyi – nominated
    • Ms Michele Woods – nominated
    • Adv Ntsietso Mokitimi-Makhafola – nominated ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: deliberations
    13 Mar 2018

    The sub-committee on Trade and Industry invited the National Treasury and Eighty20 to deliberate on the ‘Debt Relief’ National Credit Amendment (NCA) Bill.

    Treasury indicated that in total, borrowers who could qualify for debt review held over 16 million loans, of which 4.7 million (29%) were three months or more ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition Listeriosis & Ford Kuga: National Consumer Commission & NCRS progress report
    9 Mar 2018

    The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry met with the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) and the National Consumer Commission (NCC). The NRCS presented a status report on Letters of Approval and the roll-out of risk-based management (RBM) system. It also gave an update on the Listeria outbreak and ...

  • Trade, Industry and Competition 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Treasury on constitutionality & response to submissions
    7 Mar 2018

    The legal opinion sought by National Treasury on the constitutionality of the ‘Debt Relief’ National Credit Amendment Bill and its response to public submissions were presented. Senior counsel had advised the Committee to at the very least seriously consider the viability of existing debt relief mechanisms – ‘if needs be ...