Small Business Development
Committee minutes: adoption
18 Aug 2015
The Committee went over the backlog of minutes that needed to be adopted from the last three months of Committee meetings. This backlog was due to the large number of lengthy presentations to the Committee in this time. The Committee also discussed its approach to editing and adopting minutes in ...
Transport
Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport on the recent Mamelodi bus commuters’ challenges: Status update on the latest developments & way forward
17 Aug 2015
The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport provided the Committee with an overview of the status of the Mamelodi/Autopax bus contracts. The briefing included a detailed background of the issues involved, the eight affected contracts, an insight into Autopax -- its current operations and operational challenges -- objections from the ...
Small Business Development
Local Procurement: Department of Defence plans; Departments of Transport, Energy & Telecommunications progress on transversal agreements
12 Aug 2015
The Department of Defence (DoD), the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) met with the Committee to discuss and report back on progress with their plans for local procurement from Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives.
The Department of Defence stated ...
Transport
Lesotho/RSA Cross Border challenges: National Ministerial Task Team briefing
11 Aug 2015
The National Ministerial Task Team (NMTT) presented a briefing on the Republic of South Africa (RSA)/ Lesotho cross border challenges to the Committee. Highlighted in the briefing were the results of the oversight visit of the Committee, the NMTT model to mitigate the impasse, recommendations arising from meeting with the ...
Transport
Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill [B12- 2015]: adoption; Third Term Committee Programme
21 Jul 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Transport adopted the Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill (B12-2015)2015) in its entirety, as the clauses discussed contained technical amendments that the Committee had previously agreed upon, especially the substitution of “seaman” to “seafarer”.
In relation to the third term Committee programme, Members agreed to invite the Railway ...
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 ...
Transport
Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill [B12-2015]: Department of Transport (DoT) consideration of received submissions
23 Jun 2015
The responses to the questions sent by MPs to the Department of Transport (DoT), seeking clarification on the Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill 2015, were considered and further explained by the Chief Director of Maritime Transport Regulation, with the assistance of the Chief Director, Legal Services in the Department. This was ...
Small Business Development
Retail Industry on Access to Market & Value Chain for SMMEs & Cooperatives (Massmart and Tiger Brand); Integrated approach on implementation of National School Nutrition Programme as a set-aside for SMMEs & Cooperatives
10 Jun 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development invited the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform, the Portfolio Committee on Social Development and the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education to a briefing by the retail industry on access to the market and ...
There were three presentations from the Department of Transport. The first was a briefing on the National Learner Transport policy. The Department said the policy had been approved and adopted by Cabinet two weeks ago and the Department dwelt on the implementation aspect of the policy. The policy process started ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its 3rd & 4th Quarter Performance Reports
27 May 2015
The Committee was briefed by the recently established Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) on its third and fourth quarter performance. It said its programmes were still structured according to the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI’s) strategic objectives, and its report was therefore aligned to them. In future, the ...