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Trade, Industry and Competition
Debt Relief Committee Bill; National Consumer Commission; National Credit Regulator Annual Report; SABS & NRCS follow-up
3 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
Debt Relief: National Credit Amendment Bill – Draft Framework Bill [not yet available to public]
The meeting initially dealt with responses to questions put by Members to the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) and South African Bureau for Standards (SABS) at the 12 September meeting at ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transnet on localisation: follow up
15 Sep 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has resolved to hold a Parliamentary Committee inquiry into the acquisition of 1 064 locomotives by Transnet. This decision followed its discussion with the state-owned transport manufacturing company regarding localisation. The Committee felt it was the second time it was not getting satisfactory ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Debt Relief Framework for Committee Bill: principles and process
14 Sep 2017
The Committee deliberated on the principles and process to follow for its Committee Bill on Debt Relief.
Committee members reviewed whom the Bill was intended for, whether it was the poorest of the poor, blanket debt relief, or those who had debt from illegal lenders. A senior counsel legal opinion ...
Employment and Labour
DoL, Nedlac; Productivity SA; CCMA; Compensation Fund & UIF 2016/17 Annual Reports, with Auditor General input
13 Sep 2017
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Labour on the audit outcomes of the Department of Labour (DoL) and its entities. In addition, The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), the Compensation Fund (CF), the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), the National Economic Development and ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Debt Relief Framework for Committee Bill: legal principles
13 Sep 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Parliamentary Legal Advisor on the legal principles that needed to accompany the National Credit Amendment Bill on debt relief. There were contestations as to whether debt constituted property or not of a creditor. The Constitution was not clear on its definition of property ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
DTI, SABS, NCRS 2016/17 Annual Report & Quarter 1 performance, with Minister
12 Sep 2017
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and two of its entities, the South African Bureau of Standards and the National Regulator for Compulsory Standards, achieved clean audits, three entities received unqualified audits with findings while one entity received a qualified audit. The Auditor-General of SA’s (AGSA) Office expressed excitement ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transnet and PRASA on localisation
5 Sep 2017
The intention of the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry meeting with Transnet and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) was to obtain more detailed and specific information on the localisation of the major rolling stock programmes that were under way. Previous meetings had not provided clarity as ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Chapter 9 Institutions amalgamation; Violence Against Women & Children Programme of Action; Trafficking in Persons SAPS statistics, with Min of Social Development & Deputy Min of Labour
31 Aug 2017
Approximately 40 women Members of Parliament were in attendance at the start of the Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus meeting, with numbers swelling to about 50 as the meeting progressed. The establishment of the Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus as a member of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Chapter had been initiated by ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: Appointment of Technical Experts
24 Aug 2017
The subcommittee convened to elect two technical experts to support the committee in its work on the Copyright Amendment Bill. Members proposed 3 names in total, after voting Professor Caroline Ncube and Tobias Schonwetter were elected as the technical experts.
The third name that was proposed was Professor Sadulla Karjiker, ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: identification of policy issues
22 Aug 2017
Documents handed out: List of policy issues related to the Copyright Amendment Bill (only to Members)
A long list of policy issues related to the Copyright Amendment Bill were identified by the Committee Content Adviser. This included: