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Small Business Development
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 ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
27 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Portfolio Committee’s Content Advisor provided a summary of the key financial and performance recommendations contained in the 2013/14 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, and described those that had been brought to the attention of the Minister of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry ...
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. ...
Small Business Development
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 ...
Small Business Development
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 ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2014/5 performance: Auditor-General; DPME and FFC briefing
13 Oct 2015
Hunger and extended periods of malnutrition not only devastate families and communities in the short term, but also leave a legacy with future generations that impairs livelihoods, undermines human development, and economic growth.
This became apparent when the Auditor-General of South Africa, Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Financial ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Processing of Legacy Submissions
4 Sep 2015
The Joint Committee met to deliberate on the way forward with legacy public submissions for Constitutional Amendments from 2013. The issue of the Sesotho sa Leboa language also arose, but discussion of the matter was postponed. The Committee Researcher summarised each of the 13 proposed amendments. Amendments were presented within ...
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 ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9-2015]: deliberations; Committee Support Officials on Plant Improvement Bill [B8-2015] and Plant Breeders’ Rights Bill [B11-2015]
25 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries received a briefing from its support officials about issues that had arisen from the public hearings and the response the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) had given to the processing of the Plant Breeders’ Rights and Plant Improvement Bills before ...