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NCOP Economic and Business Development
Competition Amendment Bill [B23B-2018]: public hearings
14 Nov 2018
Broadway Sweets had started as a small family business almost fifty years ago. It had two factories and employed 500 people. The purpose of the submission was to give the Committee insight into the difficulties that small players experience in the sector. Big retailers hugely dominated the sector. Small suppliers ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: party submissions
13 Nov 2018
VIDEO: Joint Constitutional Review Committee To Consider Report On Land Hearings, 13 November 2018
Committee members presented their political party recommendations on the amendment of section 25 of the Constitution. The ACDP expressed concern at the manner in which the Committee dealt with the written submissions. It stated that a ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Competition Amendment Bill [B23B-2018]: public hearings
13 Nov 2018
COSATU supported the Bill and asked that the Committee and the National Council of Provinces speedily process the Bill. COSATU believed that the instances of collusion by mainly white owned apartheid style companies had flourished due to previous economic practices. The Bill sought to end the rampant corruption by the ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review of Constitution: minutes and way forward
8 Nov 2018
The Committee considered and adopted the minutes of 20 September; 11, 25, 26 October; 1 November 2018. Members debated whether the minutes of 20 September 2018 were a true reflection of what transpired at that meeting. Some members said there was an omission as the minutes did not capture the ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Review of Section 25 of Constitution: draft Committee Report
1 Nov 2018
Draft Committee Report not availabe to public
The Constitutional Review Committee met to review the draft report on the possible review of section 25 of the constitution. The working document outlines the methodology that was used to elicit views from the public on the review of section 25, the summary ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Department of Tourism 2017/18 Annual Report
31 Oct 2018
Annual Reports 2017/18
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 Annual Report.
The NDT had managed to obtain an unqualified audit report with no matters of emphasis but there was however findings by the Auditor General of SA. On the financials of the NDT, total ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
AARTO Bill [B38B-2015]: final mandates
30 Oct 2018
Delegates presented their respective final mandates on the Bill to the Committee. The Eastern Cape Province, the Free State Province, the KwaZulu-Natal Province, the Limpopo Province, the Mpumalanga Province and the Northern Cape Province voted in favour of the Bill. The Western Cape Province was not in support of the ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Credit Amendment Bill [B30-2018]: briefing
10 Oct 2018
The Parliamentary Legal Advisor briefed the Committee on the National Credit Amendment Bill. The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry in October 2016 had initiated the Bill to provide debt relief measures for the most vulnerable of consumers. One of the main themes of the Bill was to create a ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7B-2016]: Department response to submissions
9 Oct 2018
The Department of Transport presented its responses to submissions received on the National Land Transport Amendment Bill from Uber South Africa Technology, Taxify South Africa, South African Local Government Association (SALGA), Uber Driver Partners, South African Metered Taxi Operators (SAMTO) and South African E-Hailing Association (SAEHA). DoT said for the ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Competition Amendment Bill: briefing by Minister and Deputy Minister
9 Oct 2018
The Minister of Economic Development provided an overview of the Competition Amendment Bill to the Select Committee although the Bill was due to be passed by the Portfolio Committee only on 16 October. The Competition Act was enacted twenty years ago in 1998. Over time, certain gaps had been identified. ...