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Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations
7 Nov 2018
The intention of the meeting had been to review a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill and for the Senior Legal Advisor to take the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry through the Copyright Amendment Bill, clause by clause, for an in-principle agreement on each clause. ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: deliberations
6 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss the National Gambling Amendment Bill. Members focused on the two substantive issues that had arisen during the public hearings. The first issue was the introduction of a regulator to replace the board in the National Gambling Board and the question of the powers of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration
1 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee Department of Trade and Industry met to finalise additions, amendments and deletions to the Copyright Amendment Bill following the discussion on the fourth round of public consultation and the final review of the Bill by the parliamentary Legal Advisor and the team from the Department of Trade ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions on additional clauses
31 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee Department of Trade and Industry was briefed on the Copyright Bill. The Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor and the Department of Trade and Industry focused on the responses by the public to the specific clauses that had been added or revised following the reports of the copyright experts. ...
Employment and Labour
Fourth Industrial Revolution impact on Labour; Labour Centres; High Level Panel recommendations
31 Oct 2018
The Committee received a presentation from the Research Unit in Parliament on the envisaged effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the labour sector. The presentation addressed how other countries are preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, concern for how labour matters will be navigated in South Africa, and it ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: DTI response to submissions
30 Oct 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry briefed the Portfolio Committee on its responses to the written and oral public submissions on the National Gambling Amendment Bill. The Department outlined the context of amending the National Gambling Act (NGA) and the context of South Africa and gambling, expressing particular concern that ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: public hearings day 2
26 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Development held public hearings on the National Gambling
Amendment Bill for the second time in the week. The participants included the Western Cape Bookmakers’ Association and the Gauteng Off-course Bookmakers’ Association, Sun Slots, Ithuba, the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board and the Western ...
Employment and Labour
Action Plan of CF in view of audit outcomes by AGSA; Labour Activation Programme of the UIF: DoL briefing
24 Oct 2018
The Compensation Fund presented its action plan to the Committee looking at progress made as at end September 2018. The presentation on the action plan of the Compensation Fund addressed where the Fund has come from, the reason for the action plan, objectives of the Fund and four pillars of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
24 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Development held public hearings on the National Gambling Amendment Bill. Originally, the Bill was quite broad but the week before the hearings, following a Committee decision, a more focused version of the Bill had been distributed to presenters. Consequently, several of the presenters discussed ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Incentive Programme Review: briefing
23 Oct 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry presented a Review Report of the Incentive Programme for the past five years from 2013/14 to 2017/18. The incentive package had doubled in the five years under review.
The Department reported that manufacturing in South Africa offered 1.7 million jobs directly but indirectly 5.4 ...