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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
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 ...
Small Business Development
SMMEs challenges with non-financial support services, with Kings of Midlands as a case study
17 Jun 2015
The King of Midlands cooperative of taxi owners in Pietermaritzburg includes community development initiatives and a business model that aims to include a petrol station, tyre fitment centre, spares shop and cooperative bank. They had bought 26 taxis for their members on their own by putting their savings together and ...
Tourism
Initiatives undertaken to improve tourism growth and development: Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) briefing
12 Jun 2015
PMG did not attend this meeting. The meeting was held outside of Parliament.
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Oversight Visits to KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Gauteng
3 Jun 2015
The Committee discussed its draft Report on oversight visits to KwaZulu–Natal, Eastern Cape and Gauteng, from 25 to 26 November 2014 and 27 January to February 2015. Members made numerous alterations of a technical nature, or to improve wording, grammar or style, and asked that various figures in the presentation ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Small Business Development budget
19 May 2015
The Committee considered its report on budget vote 31, Department of Small Business Development. After noting grammatical, spelling and wording issues through the report, Members discussed certain observations and recommendations for further clarity, added some additional observations and recommendations as well as removing some.
The report was adopted with amendments. ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on Black Supplier Development Unit plans, in presence of Minister
13 May 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on the Black Business Suppliers Development Unit, which had recently migrated to this Department from the Department of Trade and Industry. This Unit had created several new sub-programmes, including the Shared Economic Infrastructure Facility and the Youth, Women and People ...
Small Business Development
SAWEN on objectives and programmes, Industrial Development Corporation briefing on Isivande Women’s Fund, in presence of Minister and Deputy Minister
12 May 2015
The meeting was attended by both the Minister and Deputy Minister of Small Business Development. The South African Women Entrepreneurs Network (SAWEN) outlined its history and detailed the challenges facing women entrepreneurs. SAWEN had been launched in 2002, and registered as a Section 21 Company in 2004, with its fund ...
Tourism
Committee Report on Department of Tourism Budget Vote No.33
29 Apr 2015
The Chairperson said the Committee had to look at the Draft Committee Report on Budget Vote No.33 and adopt the report for the next financial year. She was pleased with how the Committee and the Department of Tourism had worked well with each other; that the Committee was amongst the ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism: Workshop on Act No. 3 of 2014
17 Apr 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) hosted the Committee to a workshop on the Tourism Act No.3 of 2014. It was important to paint a picture of the tourism environment for the Committee. The challenge was that the tourism sector could have different pieces of legislation and policies that may ...