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Tourism Sector Skills Audit & Tourism Sector Human Resource Development Strategy: National Department of Tourism briefing
22 Nov 2017
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) briefed the Committee on the Tourism Sector Skills Audit and the Tourism Sector Human Resource Development (TSHRD) Strategy.
The overall purpose was to do a skills audit in the tourism sector and then to come up with ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Free State oversight
22 Nov 2017
The Committee convened to consider and adopt its Report on the August 2017 Free State Oversight Visit.
As the Committee Chairperson had tendered apologies for the meeting, Mr X Mabasa (ANC) was elected to chair the meeting.
The Content Advisor took the Committee though the report by explaining and highlighting ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development remedial plans on Oversight Reports Recommendations
15 Nov 2017
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented its remedial plans in response to the recommendations contained in the Portfolio Committee’s (PC’s) reports, following oversight visits conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
The Committee’s key recommendations were that the Department should:
Tourism
Committee Oversight Reports; Committee Report on Department’s Quarter 1 2017/18 Performance
15 Nov 2017
The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Western Cape Province was adopted unamended. Issues that had emerged from the oversight visit were security of cities, grading and also the renaming of “Eden” to the “Garden Route”. The Draft Committee Report on the oversight visit to the Limpopo ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development Quarter 1 & 2 performance
8 Nov 2017
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) reported it had achieved 75.5% of its targets during the first quarter of 2016/17, which was a big improvement compared to the 51.6% achievement during the same period a year ago. Areas of under-performance were mainly the result of a lack of personnel, ...
Small Business Development
Elbowing small enterprises by big companies: Huawei, Cell C, Telkom, MTN, Vodacom, Ericsson; with Minister
25 Oct 2017
Document Presented:
Brief by Portfolio Committee on Small Business development on economic transformation [awaited]
The Committee on Small Business Development met to discuss feedback on non-payment of Boniswa Corporate Solutions invoices by Cell C; maintenance of contracts between big business Ericsson and small businesses Neala Trading Company and Mobile Diesel ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism Quarter 1 performance, with Deputy Minister
20 Oct 2017
The Deputy Minister said that the South African economy was not growing as it should. However tourism growth was good. Tourism had created 700 000 job and contributed 9% to SA’s Growth Domestic Product. The past year had been tourism’s seventh year of sustained growth. There was a 13% growth in ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development BRRR; DSBD remedial plans & 400 cooperatives status report, with Deputy Minister
18 Oct 2017
The Committee considered and adopted the Small Business Development Budgetary Review Recommendations Report.
Members agreed to add the following in the report:
Small Business Development
SEFA + SEDA 2016/17 Annual Report, with Deputy Minister in attendance
5 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development met to discuss the 2016/17 performance of the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) and Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), with the Deputy Minister of Small Business Development in attendance. The Committee stated that it used a tracking tool to ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor-General input
4 Oct 2017
The National Department of Tourism briefed the Committee on its 2016/17 annual report in the presence of the Office of the Auditor-General South Africa, which would also be giving input on its auditing process of the National Department of Tourism.
The Auditor–General during its auditing process had ...