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Small Business Development
Small Enterprises Ombud Service Bill reports; ICCED Model for Cooperatives and Community Economic Development: deliberations
5 Dec 2018
The Committee had to deal with issues arising from its report on the Small Enterprises Ombud Service Bill, which had rejected the bill. Most of the discussion was about the inadequacy of the Committee’s report, based on the lack of relevant content to substantiate the reason for the proposal and ...
Small Business Development
Committee minutes
28 Nov 2018
The Committee considered and adopted outstanding Committee Minutes from 6 September 2017 to 21 November 2018.
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agriculture job creation plans for President’s economic stimulus package; with Deputy Minister
27 Nov 2018
Statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on economic stimulus and recovery plan
The Portfolio Committee learnt that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was strongly involved in support of the agro-processing cluster to promote growth in the sector, but needed more support from other government departments such as the Department ...
Small Business Development
Cooperatives Development: NACSA, NCASA, SANACO submissions; Large company non-payment to small business
14 Nov 2018
The Committee received briefings on the roles played in cooperatives development by the National Apex Cooperative of South Africa (NACSA); National Cooperative Association of South Africa (NCASA); South African National Apex Cooperative (SANACO).
Members asked the three organisations how to address the 88% failure rate of cooperatives, what SANACO’s role ...
Small Business Development
Cooperatives and Community Economic Development: ICCED model
7 Nov 2018
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development, Ms Ruth Bhengu, briefed the Committee on the Cooperatives Based Community Economic Development Model. The Committee also received briefings from ICCED on the Model and its implementation plan. An advisor to the Gauteng Premier gave a briefing on the prospects ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development Quarter 1 Performance, with the Minister
31 Oct 2018
The Department of Small Business Development presented its first quarter performance report, and said that a comparative analysis over the past three years indicated a performance in continuing decline, largely because of the transfer of some programmes to different entities, as well as a change in the structure of some ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Ombud Service Bill: bill rejected
24 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development deliberated the proposed Private Member’s Bill: Small Enterprise Ombud Service Bill. The Bill had been proposed by Mr Chance (DA) in accordance with section 73(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.
The Committee discussed the Bill which proposed the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAFF Quarter 1 performance; ARC audit action plan; DAFF response to oversight visit reports; with Minister
23 Oct 2018
The Committee met to be briefed by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) on its first quarter performance, and also to receive a report on the audit improvement plan of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC).
The ARC said the audit outcomes had reported a total of 118 findings, ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Small Business Development to discuss the Cooperatives Amendment Act, N0 6 of 2013, the Budgetary Report and Recommendation Report (BRRR) and the report on their study tour to Spain. Both reports were adopted at the close of the day.
The first discussions ...
Small Business Development
SEDA & SEFA 2017/18 Annual Report, with Deputy Minister & Minister
11 Oct 2018
Annual Reports 2017/18
The Small Enterprises Development Agency (SEDA) presentation dealt with its Mandate, Performance per Programme, Performance Trends Analysis, Human Resources, Financial Information, Governance and Compliance, and Success Stories.
Members welcomed the improved presentation from SEDA. However, concern was raised about the performance indicator to support only 872 cooperatives. ...