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Small Business Development
Procurement Policies to create market access for Small Business & Cooperatives: Spar briefing
4 Nov 2015
The Committee was engaged in hearing from a number of retail organisations on their procurement policies and how they assisted in opening up markets for small businesses. Spar Group briefed the Committee, noting that Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932, and started in South Africa in 1963. The ...
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Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
28 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Committee commenced by going through the responses from Ms Lindiwe Zulu Minister of Small Business Development, to which Members did not comment. The Chairperson tabled the document and the Committee considered the report page by page. Mr R Chance (DA) noted a ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
21 Oct 2015
The Committee met for the second consideration of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The report was reviewed and several recommendations, explanations and amendments were proposed. The Chairperson agreed to review the input and edit the document according to the submissions. The BRRR was not approved and another meeting ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
The Content Advisor to the Portfolio Committee of Small Business presented the draft of the Budget Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR). He said the BRRR entailed all the issues discussed, deliberated and recommended by the Committee, and most of these had been about financing and the working of the administration. ...
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Small Enterprise Finance Agency and Small Enterprise Development Agency on their Strategies & Annual Performance Reports
15 Oct 2015
Entities of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented their annual performance reports. Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) discussed the conversion of the loan, to equity. In this year, sefa approved R1 billion, and disbursed over R1.3 billion to small, micro and medium (SMMEs) enterprises. Sefa had assisted over ...
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Department of Small Business Development on its 2014/15 Annual Report; Auditor-General & DPME inputs
14 Oct 2015
[Missing doc: Department of Small Business Development 2014/15 Annual Report email info@pmg.org.za]
The Chairperson noted the presence of the Deputy Minister and welcomed the new Director General of the Department of Small Business Development (the Department). The Auditor-General South Africa briefed the Portfolio Committee on the performance of the new ...
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Department of Small Business Development 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on its first quarter performance for 2015/16 financial year.
Regarding the budget allocation of R1.1 billion for enterprise development, the Department had spent about R220 million so far -- an under-expenditure of R90 million. This had been due to the ...
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Pick n Pay on Access to Retail Industry Market by Small Business
2 Sep 2015
The Committee Chairperson announced that the meeting was attended by delegations from Pick n Pay as a large retailer, an individual small entrepreneur, the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA), Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) and the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD), and the purpose of the meeting was to ...
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Committee minutes: adoption
18 Aug 2015
The Committee went over the backlog of minutes that needed to be adopted from the last three months of Committee meetings. This backlog was due to the large number of lengthy presentations to the Committee in this time. The Committee also discussed its approach to editing and adopting minutes in ...
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Local Procurement: Department of Defence plans; Departments of Transport, Energy & Telecommunications progress on transversal agreements
12 Aug 2015
The Department of Defence (DoD), the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) met with the Committee to discuss and report back on progress with their plans for local procurement from Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives.
The Department of Defence stated ...