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Basic Education
Scholar Transport Policy: Dept of Transport & DBE; Education Collaboration Framework: National Education Collaboration Trust update
8 Sep 2015
The National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) is the implementing agent of the Education Collaboration Framework (ECF) mandated to work with an initial number of eight districts in five provinces, comprising 4 362 schools, 66 000 teachers and nearly 2 million learners. Progress on the ECF themes is as follows:
▪ Professionalisation ...
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 ...
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 ...
Basic Education
DBE Provincial & District Monitoring & Support; ELRC De-Listing; SACE progress report
17 Aug 2015
The Chief Executive Officer of the South African Council for Educators (SACE) said that an agreement had been reached between SACE and the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to work closely with the office of the Director General (DG) on the strategic plan and annual performance plan of SACE. 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 ...
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 ...
Basic Education
Rural schooling / multi-grade schools/ farms schools / non-viable schools; Inclusive Education implementation; Special Needs schools: Department briefing
23 Jun 2015
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on the progress it had made in the implementation of the Education White Paper 6 on Inclusive Education. The presentation included progress made in improving access to education for special needs learners, improving quality education and support, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Basic Education
Curriculum delivery and support in schools: Department of Basic Education status report
9 Jun 2015
The Department of Basic Education outlined the diversity of Annual National Assessment (ANA) and National Senior Certificate (NSC) results from province to province across the nation, which was startling for many; Mpumalanga and Western Cape led the progress chart. Notably, overall improvement could be identified from all provinces. Moreover, the ...