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Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Small Business Development to discuss the Cooperatives Amendment Act, N0 6 of 2013, the Budgetary Report and Recommendation Report (BRRR) and the report on their study tour to Spain. Both reports were adopted at the close of the day.
The first discussions ...
Tourism
Tourism Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee discussed and adopted the Draft Tourism Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) with amendments.
The Committee Content Adviser took the Committee through the Draft BRRR and touched on the financials and performance of the National Department of Tourism (NDT) and ...
Tourism
South African Tourism Quarter 1 performance
12 Sep 2018
SA Tourism briefed the Committee on its 1st Quarter Performance Report for 2018/19.
SA Tourism had a total of 27 key performance indicators but that some were not yet due for reporting. For Quarter 1 the target for international tourist arrivals was 2.5m with actual performance sitting at 2.4m, a ...
Tourism
High Level Panel recommendations: Committee response; Committee Reports
11 Sep 2018
The Committee’s Content Advisor reported on the Department of Tourism’s fourth quarter performance report for 2017/18, and highlighted that the Department and South African Tourism (SAT) had failed to achieve their targets for the quarter. The Department had achieved only 88.1% of its targets, while SAT had achieved 68.3%. Recommendations ...
Small Business Development
SEFA & SEDA on Quarter 4 performance; with Deputy Minister
5 Sep 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) and the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on their Fourth Quarter Reports. SEDA was still functioning fully according to its schedule for the year with the Ministry playing its oversight role by selecting board meetings in which it meets ...
Tourism
Tourism Quarter 1 performance
5 Sep 2018
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its 1st Quarter Performance Report for 2018/19.
As far as the overall target, the Department had achieved 72 out of 88 targets in this period.
Programme 1: Corporate Management
For the Programme there were seventeen targets of which sixteen had ...
Tourism
Bilateral Agreements / Memorandum of Understanding with other countries; with the Deputy Minister
22 Aug 2018
Delegates from the Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on on the multilateral forums to which South Africa was a signatory and a member. The briefing was also aimed at providing the status of signed agreements/memorandums of understanding (MOUs), to provide progress on the implementation of signed MOUs, and to ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprises Ombud Service Bill: DA MP Mr R Chance briefing; with Minister
22 Aug 2018
The introduction of the Small Enterprises Ombud Service Bill by an Opposition Member of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business led to him being accused by the ANC Members of undermining the Committee, grandstanding and politicking, because it was being introduced by one individual based on work done by the ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 4 performance
15 Aug 2018
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Portfolio Committee on Tourism on its fourth quarter performance in 2017/18, and reported that it had achieved 61 of its 68 targets. It had marginally failed to maintain its goal of 50% of women at the senior management service level – the previous ...
Small Business Development
Elbowing small enterprises by big companies in telecommunication sector
15 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development received a briefing on the elbowing of small enterprises by big companies in the telecommunication sector. The Chairperson referred to the absence of Cell C as an indication that they did not want to form part of the process of solving the issues ...