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Small Business Development
Committee Report on Small Business Development budget
19 May 2015
The Committee considered its report on budget vote 31, Department of Small Business Development. After noting grammatical, spelling and wording issues through the report, Members discussed certain observations and recommendations for further clarity, added some additional observations and recommendations as well as removing some.
The report was adopted with amendments. ...
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Department of Small Business Development on Black Supplier Development Unit plans, in presence of Minister
13 May 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on the Black Business Suppliers Development Unit, which had recently migrated to this Department from the Department of Trade and Industry. This Unit had created several new sub-programmes, including the Shared Economic Infrastructure Facility and the Youth, Women and People ...
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SAWEN on objectives and programmes, Industrial Development Corporation briefing on Isivande Women’s Fund, in presence of Minister and Deputy Minister
12 May 2015
The meeting was attended by both the Minister and Deputy Minister of Small Business Development. The South African Women Entrepreneurs Network (SAWEN) outlined its history and detailed the challenges facing women entrepreneurs. SAWEN had been launched in 2002, and registered as a Section 21 Company in 2004, with its fund ...
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MCV International Forwarding on export promotion strategy for SMMEs; Small Enterprise Finance Agency on its mandate
6 May 2015
MCV International Forwarding told the Committee that small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) had to gain international experience and look for business beyond the borders of South Africa to succeed. SMMEs did not play an active role in the international market due to lack of financial resources, export experience and ...
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Adoption of Outstanding Minutes
22 Apr 2015
The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt three outstanding Minutes. Two of the minutes were approved with amendments, while the third was asopted with no changes.
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Small Enterprise Development Agency & Small Enterprise Finance Agency on their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
15 Apr 2015
Small businesses are struggling to access finance, markets and adequate infrastructure. Consequently, they end up operating on pavements and in buildings that lack water supply and sanitation and have tripping electricity. The attitude of big businesses was exacerbating this problem because they are hell-bent on blocking the way for small ...
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Department of Small Business Development on Strategic and Annual Performance Plan 2015, in presence of Minister
25 Mar 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2019, and the Annual Performance Plans for 2015/16. It was noted, by way of context, that the mandate around promotion of small businesses and cooperatives had initially been with the Department of Trade ...
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Local procurement plans of Defence, Correctional Services, Health, Basic Education, Higher Education and Social Development Departments to ensure SMMEs / Cooperatives access to market
18 Mar 2015
The purpose of this meeting was to give the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development the opportunity to assess progress made by government departments in implementing the policy of ensuring that 30% of procurement was sourced from small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives. The Committee also wished to ...
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SMMEs and Cooperatives: infrastructure support; Transversal agreements with Departments of Telecommunications, Water Affairs, Transport and Energy
11 Mar 2015
The Portfolio Committee for Small Business Development met with the Department of Water and Sanitation, the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, the Department of Transport and the Department of Energy to discuss the support, initiatives and envisioned transversal agreements between these departments and the Department of Small Business Development ...
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Access to Market by SMMEs & Cooperatives: briefing by BUSA & Retail Industry: Massmart; KOHWA; Woolworths
25 Feb 2015
The Committee received a briefing from four players in the retail and food processing industries -- Massmart, KOHWA Holdings, Woolworths and Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). The purpose of the meeting was to get an understanding of factors hindering the retail and food processing sectors in their Issues raised from ...