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Economic Development
Tourism sector: Department of Tourism briefing
13 Jun 2018
This joint meeting between the Portfolio Committee on Tourism and the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development and co-chaired by the former’s chairperson, Ms L Makhubela-Mashele, and the latter’s whip, Mr A Cele, was convened in recognition of the importance of tourism to the South African economy and because it is ...
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Textile Industry: IDC briefing; Economic Development Department Quarter 4 performance with Minister & Deputy Minister
12 Jun 2018
The Minister of Economic Development, Mr Ebrahim Patel, presented the fourth quarter report of the Economic Development Department to the Committee and he was accompanied by his Deputy, Mr Madala Masuku.
The Minister reported that the country’s GDP declined 2.2 percent during the quarter with agriculture taking the biggest hit ...
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Import Regulations: briefing by ITAC
30 May 2018
The Committee was briefed on import control and enforcement by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC). The meeting was also attended by stakeholders from the sugar and poultry industries.
Members had requested the briefing when they were considering ITAC’s annual report, because they felt they needed to understand the status ...
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Economic Development Budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Committee considered its Report on Budget Vote 25: Economic Development Department. No substantive changes were made to the Report. Grammatical and minor technical changes were made to the Report where necessary. The Committee did agree to include in the Report if it was not already covered in existing recommendations, ...
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Economic Development Department (continued) & ITAC Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
24 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development was briefed by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) and the Department of Economic Development (EDD) on their Annual Performance Plans (APPs) for the 2018/19 financial year, in the presence of the Minister. ITAC presented its APP to the Committee wherein clarity was provided ...
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Competition Commission & Competition Tribunal & IDC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
17 Apr 2018
The Industrial Development Corporation, the Competition Commission and the Competition Tribunal presented their Annual Performance Plans for the 2018/19 financial year.
The Industrial Development Corporation had developed many focus areas for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. Those included increasing industrial development, maintaining the corporation’s financial sustainability, capitalising on the Rest ...
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Department Economic Development & ITAC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
27 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development outlined the mandate of the Department, which was to align the plans of all the national departments to the National Development Plan and National Growth Path to ensure that the country experienced growth in both the economy and the number of jobs created. He described ...
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Economic Development Department Annual Performance Plan: DPME input
20 Mar 2018
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) appeared before the Committee to give a briefing on the progress being made by the Economic Development Department (EDD) and its entities with its strategic plans for the period 2015 to 2020, and the annual performance plans.
The Department monitored and assisted ...
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Impact of industrial strategy on SMME development: Industrial Development Corporation briefing
13 Mar 2018
The Industrial Development Corporation briefed the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development on the impact of its programmes on the Small Medium and Micro and Enterprises, while the Committee, on the other hand, is to assess if the policies in place are directed to where they are needed most.
The entity ...
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Intellectual property in pharmaceutical sector: workshop
20 Feb 2018
Professor Caroline Ncube from UCT’s Faculty of Law briefed members on some aspects of intellectual property (IP) insofar as it impacted on the pharmaceutical sector.
Some of the key aspects she covered in her briefing were the five levels of activities in the sector - e.g. imports, packaging and labelling, ...