Mr Eddie Makue

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Eddie Makue

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour Foreign Service Bill: DIRCO briefing
    20 Feb 2019

    The Department of International Relations and Cooperation provided context for the Foreign Service Bill coming into being. The reality was that SA did not have a legislative mechanism to support optimally the mandate of the DIRCO to achieve the country’s foreign policy objectives. One of the objectives of the Bill ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development National Land Transport Amendment Bill: Department response to negotiating mandates (continued)
    19 Feb 2019

    The Committee in its previous meeting had decided that the Parliamentary Legal Advice Office, the Office of the Chief State Law Adviser, the Department of Transport and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) should meet to deal with the constitutional issues raised by SALGA. The Committee had hoped that ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour National Credit Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates; Copyright Amendment & Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills: briefing
    13 Feb 2019

    Documents handed out: Responses by Parliamentary Law Adviser/DTI to Negotiating Mandates [awaited]; Call for Comment

    The Parliamentary Law Adviser presented the Provincial Negotiating Mandates on the National Credit Amendment Bill. Eight of the nine provinces had voted in favour of the Bill with the exception of the Western Cape Province ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development National Land Transport Amendment Bill: legal opinion on constitutionality; Department response to Negotiating Mandates
    12 Feb 2019

    Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Advice Office pointed out that the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) believed that the approach taken in the Bill fundamentally changed the existing National Land Transport Act in ways which it believed were inconsistent with both the Constitution and sound public transport management. The relevant ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour National Gambling Amendment Bill [B27B-2018]: DTI briefing
    30 Jan 2019

    The Committee received a briefing on the National Gambling Amendment Bill which was an important piece of legislation that the National Council of Provinces, and the provinces, would have to engage extensively. There was an urgency to the work of the Committee which had to ensure that provinces conducted public ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development National Land Transport Amendment Bill [B7B-2016]: Negotiating Mandates
    29 Jan 2019

    The Chairperson at the outset of the meeting clarified that the present meeting was only to consider the provincial negotiating mandates of the provinces on the Bill. Deliberations by the Committee on the provincial negotiating mandates as well as responses by the Department of Transport thereto would only take place ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour National Credit Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions
    28 Nov 2018

    The Committee met to consider written submissions on the National Credit Amendment Bill [B30-2018], which was described as a debt intervention bill (DIB). Debt counselling was costly and it was not provided to a certain segment of consumers. That had emerged after the Committee had consulted with debt counsellors, where ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Committee Legacy Report
    27 Nov 2018

    The Committee considered and adopted several outstanding minutes.

    The Committee decided not to consider its Legacy Report and Annual Report because the documents were not complete. Both will be considered the following week.

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour Treaty on Prohibition of the Nuclear Weapons ratification
    14 Nov 2018

    The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) provided some background to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The United Nations Conference adopted the TPNW on 7 July 2017. The TPNW was the culmination of the humanitarian initiative on nuclear weapons. It was a strategic intervention given ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Competition Amendment Bill [B23B-2018]: public hearings
    14 Nov 2018

    Broadway Sweets had started as a small family business almost fifty years ago. It had two factories and employed 500 people. The purpose of the submission was to give the Committee insight into the difficulties that small players experience in the sector. Big retailers hugely dominated the sector. Small suppliers ...