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Economic Development
Joint Study Tour to Malaysia Report
21 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted with amendments the Report on the Joint Study Tour to Malaysia.
The purpose of the study tour was to learn from Malaysia, as a country that has long followed and implemented long-term development planning to achieve certain objectives such as economic growth and employment, ...
Economic Development
Oversight Report
7 Nov 2017
Apologies were received from the Member, Dr MJ Cardo
The Committee adopted outstanding minutes of meeting as well as Reports prepared on oversight visits. All minutes and Reports were adopted, some with minor amendments. There was a discussion on the absence of Mr M Mabika. The Chairperson requested the members ...
Economic Development
Committee minutes
31 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted six sets of minutes.
Economic Development
Economic Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
24 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development deliberated on the contents of the Department of Economic Development’s Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, making recommendations and changes to the draft report. The meeting was conducted on a page-by-page process, as it was assumed that ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department; Competition Commission + Tribunal Annual Report, with Minister
10 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The Economic Development Department achieved all its 23 KPIs and spent 98.6% of its budget. There were 170 products planned, but it over-achieved to 202 products. It indicated that there was an increase in employment of a 538 000 jobs from 15 675 000 to 16 ...
Economic Development
Pharmaceutical Industry: Department of Health & DTI briefing
28 Jun 2017
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) combined with the National Department of Health (DoH) to present an overview of the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on the procurement of anti-retrovirals (ARVs).
The Dti provided a broad profile of the industry and indicated that the pharmaceutical market in South Africa ...
Economic Development
Committee minutes
27 Jun 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted eight sets of minutes. Members voiced concerns about one of the minutes pointing out grammatical and spelling mistakes, and inaccuracies. The Committee minutes 3 May 2017 was accordingly withdrawn.
Economic Development
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Market Inquiry outcomes: deliberations
13 Jun 2017
The Committee considered the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Market Inquiry outcomes prepared by the Committee’s Researcher as a summary to recap on the findings and recommendations made by the Competition Commission on the report. The Researcher shared the findings and the recommendations as well as the role of Parliament through the ...
Economic Development
Committee Report on Economic Development Budget
23 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development met to consider and make amendments to the Report of the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development on Budget Vote 25 and the Annual Performance Plans of the Department of Economic Development. Members were mainly concerned about the language medium and jargon used in these ...
Economic Development
Committee Report on Economic Development Budget
18 May 2017
The Committee met to deliberate on its Report on the Department of Economic Development’s Budget Vote.
Members mostly fixed a number of grammatical errors in the Report and agreed to remove paragraph 4.3 in the interim and interrogate it later.
The Committee decided to meet after the sitting on Tuesday, ...