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Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Gauteng Human Settlements Department turnaround strategy
30 Oct 2018
The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements (GDHS) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Human settlements the challenges that led to poor performance and the turnaround strategy put in place to remedy the situation; and further briefly updated the Committee on the progress of the Friendship Towns Petition.
GDHS Department has been ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Poor performance: Limpopo Provincial Department of Human Settlement briefing
23 Oct 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements & Traditional Affairs (CoGHSTA), Limpopo, on their performance during the 2017/18 financial year.
The Department highlighted their main challenges and said interventions had been put in place to address them. These challenges were the reallocation of projects without ...
Economic Development
IDC 2017/18 Annual Report; Competition Amendment Bill: adoption
16 Oct 2018
The Committee passed the final version (B-list) of the Competition Amendment Bill as well as the Committee Report on the Bill.
The DA objected to both, highlighting that the Bill gave too much powers to the Minister. The party further complained that the process undertaken by the Committee was questionable ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 2017/18 Annual Report; with Minister & Deputy Minister
11 Oct 2018
The EDD briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 annual report. The Minister and Deputy Minister were in attendance.
The EDD received a clean audit, and there as an overall improvement in the control environment as evidenced by less findings compared to the previous financial years.
In terms ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
3 Oct 2018
The Committee reconvened for a second day to give consideration to the Minister’s responses to the Committee’s proposed amendments to the Competition Bill. The Committee had to adjourn the previous day owing to quorum issues. The meeting started at 09h30 but the Committee had to briefly adjourn as it did ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: deliberations
19 Sep 2018
The Committee continued its clause-by-clause deliberations on the Competition Amendment Bill, taking into account the Minister’s responses to matters raised by the Committee as contained in a report from the Economic Development Department. Highlights of the deliberations were as follows:
Clause 23 seeks to amend section 43B of the Act. ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: public hearings day 2
29 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development received briefings from various stakeholders on the second day of public hearings on the Competition Amendment Bill, which had officially been introduced to the National Assembly last month. Its primary objective was to address the structural challenges that were considered by the Minister of ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Property Practitioners Bill: briefing
26 Jun 2018
The Property Practitioners Bill aims to repeal the outdated Estate Agents Affairs Act of 1976 which did not cohere with current legislation. There were currently many barriers in place preventing the demographic of real estate agents to reflect the demographics of the country. The National Department of Human Settlements (NDHS) ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
NHFC & NURCHA & RHLF & SHRA 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
18 Apr 2018
The National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC), the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC), the Rural Housing Loan Fund (RHLF) and the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA), presenting their respective annual performance plans (APPs) and budgets for 2018/19 to the Committee.
The NHFC said that with its business model, it had a ...
Economic Development
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 ...