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Small Business Development
400 cooperatives supported since inception: DSBD progress report & intervention plan
24 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development expressed its disappointment and strong rejection of a progress report on the development status of 400 cooperatives funded by the Department since its inception and the intervention plan to address challenges identified. The report noted the 88% failure rate of cooperatives, and since ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Mpumalanga Oversight
17 May 2017
The Committee commended the drafting of the report by the Content Advisor in terms of its details. The report called upon the Director-General to report to the Committee by the end of May on the status of the cooperatives and that this was imperative since the Director-General had declined to ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Department of Small Business Development Budget; Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill: consideration
10 May 2017
Document handed out: Committee Report on Department of Small Business Development Budget [available once published Tabled Committee Reports]
The Committee convened to consider its report on the Department of Small Business Development’s (DSBD’s) Budget Vote for 2017/18, and the implications of proceeding with the Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill.
The ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAFF & Marine Living Resources Fund on their Annual Performance Plan; DPME input, with Minister
4 May 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) explained to the Committee that it required the Strategic Plan (SP) and Annual Performance Plan (APP) of each department to be aligned with the priority outcomes in the Medium-term Strategic Framework (MTSF). The potential of Agriculture in creating one million jobs in ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development, SEFA and SEDA Annual Performance Plan
3 May 2017
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented its 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan. The Department has been undergoing a structural organisational change as a result of the DPME and National Treasury’s proposal to change its strategic approach to its mandate. This triggered a new structure which will now focus on ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development restructuring: AGSA, DPME, FFC, DPSA input
2 May 2017
AGSA laid out the criteria that it will use to carry out the 2016/17 audit of the department. It did not provide any specific audit related information because the audit will commence only in July. Once the audit is completed, the AG will return in September to report on its ...
Small Business Development
Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill consideration of submissions; Alignment of Cooperatives Model with support services briefing
23 Mar 2017
Alignment of Cooperatives Model with support services
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on the progress made in terms of the remedial action plan presented to the Committee on 7 December 2016 and to report on aligning support services to the model of developing the Abalimi ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Poultry Industry: briefing by Food and Allied Workers Union
10 Mar 2017
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by the General Secretary, Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) on the crises ravaging the Poultry sector in the Republic of South Africa. The Union had believed in a job-creating as well as industrial strategy-inspired trade policy approach to trade relations and agreements between South ...
Small Business Development
Community Economic Development model through cooperatives development; oversight visit to KZN
8 Mar 2017
The draft report on the Committee’s oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) was presented for consideration, and all the Members agreed that it was an accurate record of the visit. Some words and phrases were changed for the document to be consistent with the content of the visit. It had been ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on its Quarter 3 performance, with Deputy Minister
7 Mar 2017
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) tabled its third quarter expenditure report.
Since 2014, the main focus of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is to provide food security to ensure the citizens of this country who are vulnerable to hunger and food insecurity have sufficient access ...