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Small Business Development
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 ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance; Committee Oversight Visit Report
8 Sep 2015
The Department of Women (DoW) in the Presidency briefed the Committee on its Quarter1 Performance Report. The Committee was provided with an overview of the DoW’s organogram and on its organisational transformation. The DoW was now considered a lean and mean department even if it had limited funds. The organisational ...
Small Business Development
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 ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Violence against migrants: COSATU; FEDUSA & Imizamo Yethu Representatives briefing
25 Aug 2015
The Congress of the South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Hout Bay community organisation, iMizamo Yethu, briefed the Committee on issues relating to the recent violence against foreign nationals.
COSATU stressed that the issue of migration had a historical context, particularly colonialism and apartheid, and the artificial borders that ...
Small Business Development
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 ...
Small Business Development
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 ...
Small Business Development
Workshop for Small Business Development: Day 3
22 Jul 2015
In the third day of the workshop on Small Business development, the Committee continued to hear from a number of presenters highlighting challenges currently experienced by Small Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives, and what the development finance institutions (DFIs) were doing to assist.
The Department of Trade and ...
Small Business Development
Workshop on Small Business Development: Day 1; in presence of Minister
20 Jul 2015
The Committee held a workshop focusing on challenges that are experienced by Small Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives in accessing funding. The Minister, Ms Lindiwe Zulu attended the meeting and explained that the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) was set up to deal with ways to unlock ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Committee Programme: adoption
25 Jun 2015
The Committee adopted the programme on probing violence against foreigners. Because of the serious issues involved, Members were asked to give priority to this Committee, even at the expense of constituency work and oversight visits. The House Chairman would be asked to extend the deadline for the submission of the ...
Small Business Development
Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development Oversight Report
24 Jun 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development considered and adopted the minutes of meetings held on 14, 15 and 22 April 2015.
The Committee unanimously adopted the minutes with amendments. The Committee noted an objection raised on reference to the Freedom Charter in the minutes of 14 April.
The following ...