Mr Hendrik Christiaan Crafford Krüger

Committee appearances

• Virtual Oversight on enterprises benefited from Covid-19 Relief Fund 17 Mar 2021

  Mr H Kruger (DA) asked the businesses about their experience of the application process. Is there too much red tape involved? Do they think that SEFA and the Department can make the application process easier for everybody to access funding?

• DSBD, SEFA & SEDA 2020/21 Quarter 3 performance 10 Mar 2021

  Mr H Kruger (DA) said that the footprint of SEDA was not present within the townships and rural areas. He pointed out that the SEDA offices in his own town in Mpumalanga were in the “richest suburbs, many miles away from the townships.” How had they planned this? Why were ...

• DSBD, SEFA & SEDA 2020/21 Quarter 2 performance 3 Mar 2021

  Mr H Kruger (DA) thanked the Department and the agencies for their presentations. He said he had not received, but would welcome, a letter from Mr Hendricks about the proposed incubator project.

• Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report 16 Oct 2019

  Mr H Kruger (DA) spoke on recommendation 8.1.7, which addressed the 30-day payment which was a huge problem for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs). The only legislation that would solve this problem was the Ombudsman Bill, which was very much needed. He recalled the Department promising to build it ...

• Cost of Doing Business, Bureaucratic Red-Tape & Access to Markets: Content Advisor briefing 4 Sep 2019

  Mr H Kruger (DA) agreed with both views. In his view, there was no one permanent solution to address xenophobic violence, but there was a need for a procedure to be put in place to deal with the involvement of foreign nationals in the small business sector.

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Questions

• Questions asked to the Minister of Small Business Development 4 May 2021

  (1)With regard to the letter from the Banking Association of South Africa dated 10 October 2020 (details furnished), what (a) total number of small-, medium-, and micro-enterprises have been successfully assisted (i) with payment breaks on credit agreements and (ii) under the loan guarantee scheme since 27 September 2020 and ...

• Questions asked to the Minister of Small Business Development 15 Dec 2020

  With reference to the (a) letter, dated 31 July 2020, and (b) list of unpaid invoices sent to her by Mr H C C Krüger, what are the reasons that she has not yet responded to the specified letter?

• Questions asked to the Minister of Small Business Development 9 Nov 2020

  What are the reasons of her non-attendance of each meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development (a) in the past financial year and (b) since 1 April 2020?”

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Plenary appearances

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