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Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency 2022/23 Annual Performance Plan
20 Apr 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development sat to consider the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) Corporate Annual Performance Plan (APP) for the 2022/2023 financial year.
During their briefing, officials from SEFA informed the Committee that from 1 April 2019 to 31 December 2021, SEFA achieved ...
Small Business Development
Covid-19 Expenditure Audit; Capacity Building Session on AGSA’s role as an assurance provider
1 Apr 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) told the Committee that there were two flagship programmes to support small businesses during Covid-19 -- the debt relief finance scheme and the spaza shop support programme.
The debt relief finance scheme had a budget ...
Small Business Development
Independent Field Technicians Petition
30 Mar 2022
16 Feb 2022 |
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development met via virtual platform to hear Telkom’s explanation of its contractual dispute with Independent Field Technicians. Those technicians were service providers who assisted Telkom by installing fibre networks in households throughout the country.
Allegations such ...
Small Business Development
DSBD, SEFA & SEDA 2021/22 Quarter 3 performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
23 Mar 2022
Video (Part 1)
Video (Part 2)
Video (Part 3)
[please note: the beginning of the meeting and presentations were not captured in the recording]
The Committee met in a virtual meeting to be briefed on the 2021/22 third quarter reports of the Small Enterprise Finance Agency, the Small Enterprise Development ...
Small Business Development
Competition Commission’s role in creating opportunities for small business
16 Mar 2022
The Committee met virtually with the Competition Commission to receive a briefing on the role of the Commission in essentially creating opportunities for small businesses in the country. The Commission touched on the context of small, medium and micro enterprises in the country. It also touched on a concentrated study ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Blacklisting of companies: National Treasury & SIU briefing, with Deputy Minister
9 Mar 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Committee met with the National Treasury and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to discuss the process commonly known as blacklisting, under which malfeasant suppliers could be restricted from doing business with the state for a period of up to ten years. The Deputy Minister ...
Small Business Development
Impact of SONA on SMMEs
2 Mar 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa: 2022 State of the Nation Address (SONA)
The Committee received an analysis of the President's State of the Nation Address 2022 by the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). The implications for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) were discussed under the following headings:
• Enabling ...
Small Business Development
Independent Field Technicians Petition
16 Feb 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Committee met to be briefed and deliberate on a petition from a group of Independent Field Technicians (IFT)s on their experiences with Telkom. The IFTs were a Telkom social responsibility Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) initiative to build up small businesses from a disadvantaged background. ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Mr M Dirks Letter on alleged misuse of public funds
25 Jan 2022
Letter submitted by Mr Dirks: Allegations related to the misuse of public funds (Internal document)
Parliamentary Legal Opinion (Internal document)
Mr Lees’s written proposal on the matter (Internal document)
In this virtual meeting, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts received an oral submission from a Member of the Committee ...
Small Business Development
Implementation of Business Recovery Support Package; Merger of Seda, Sefa and CBDA; with Deputy Minister
8 Dec 2021
The Committee met with the Department of Small Business Development and its agencies, to receive briefings on the implementation of the Business Recovery Support Package (BRP) and on the progress of the proposed merger between the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) and the Cooperative ...