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Economic Development
Department Economic Development & ITAC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
27 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development outlined the mandate of the Department, which was to align the plans of all the national departments to the National Development Plan and National Growth Path to ensure that the country experienced growth in both the economy and the number of jobs created. He described ...
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Economic Development Department on Quarter 3 performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
14 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development provided the Committee with an overview of the economy from the Department’s perspective, before providing details of its performance during the third quarter of the current financial year.
The gross domestic product (GDP) in the quarter had shown an increase of 3.1% compared to the ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department on Quarter 2 performance, with Minister and Deputy Minister
14 Nov 2017
Documents handed out: Q2 report – EDD [document awaited as it is being updated]
The Economic Development Department (EDD) reported that South Africa’s unemployment rate had remained steady at 27.7% for the past three quarters. Jobs had increased by 92 000, to 16 192 000, while unemployment had increased by 33 000 to 6 210 000. ...
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Economic Development Department; Competition Commission + Tribunal Annual Report, with Minister
10 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The Economic Development Department achieved all its 23 KPIs and spent 98.6% of its budget. There were 170 products planned, but it over-achieved to 202 products. It indicated that there was an increase in employment of a 538 000 jobs from 15 675 000 to 16 ...
Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission
10 Oct 2017
The Minister of Economic Development reported on the work by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission (PICC). He pointed out that PICC is the executive’s tool for monitoring the implementation and impact of infrastructural development on the economy. It is a planning and coordinating body. It is neither a funding structure; ...
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Economic Development Department on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister and Deputy
5 Sep 2017
The Economic Development Department (EDD) presented its reports for the fourth quarter of 2016/17 and the first quarter of 2017/18. However, as the fourth quarter report had not yet been audited, the Minister focused on only some of the key areas, and then dealt with the first quarter in great ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Economic Development Department on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy
30 May 2017
The Department of Economic Development (EDD) briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. The Minister and his deputy were present at the meeting.
In his preliminary remarks, the Minister said the Annual Performance Plan 2017/18 was the key roadmap to the Department’s work for the next twelve months. The ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Energy on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister and Deputy Minister
23 May 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Energy on its Annual Performance Plan and Budget.
In her preliminary remarks, the Minister of Energy said that there were two critical issues that had to be seen to. The first was on the operations and effectiveness of the DoE’s entities. ...
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Economic Development Department & Industrial Development Corporation on their Annual Performance Plans, with Minister & Deputy
9 May 2017
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) presented its Corporate Plan and shared some deep concerns about the current economic conditions as influenced by the credit rating downgrade and how the junk status will affect the Corporation’s ability to disburse funding to its clients. In light of the current economic conditions, the ...
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Economic Development Department on its Third Quarter Performance, with Minister & Deputy in attendance
28 Feb 2017
The Minister reported an unemployment rate of 26.7%, this is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 27.1% of Quarter 2, 2016. The labour force increased by 143 000. 235 000 jobs were created in Q3:127 000 were formal non-agriculture jobs, 53 000 informal non-agriculture, 38 000 in agriculture and 17 ...