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Economic Development
Competition Tribunal on its 2014/15 Annual report
18 Nov 2015
The Committee met to hear the Annual Report of the Competition Tribunal, sister entity to the Competition Commission. The presentation started by detailing the types of case the Tribunal considers and examples of each. Most explored were cartel cases against 40 furniture cases and an abuse of dominance case against ...
Economic Development
Competition Commission on its 2014/15 Annual report
17 Nov 2015
The Competition Commission (CC) presented its 2014/15 Annual Report. In describing the organisational profile, the CC emphasised the decreased staff turnover rates and consistent gender employment parity. The CC had improved its previous unqualified audit result of 2013/14 to a completely clean audit in 2014/15. It had won four out ...
Economic Development
Industrial Development Corporation on its 2014/15 Annual Report
10 Nov 2015
The IDC said that it was operating in a challenging environment in South Africa and globally, but that it had to a large extent achieved what it had set out to achieve. However, the next report would reflect the tougher trading conditions currently being experienced. Its vision, mission and main ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Register of Members’ Interests 2015: adoption
28 Oct 2015
Documents handed out: 2015 Register of Members’ Interests
The Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests met briefly to consider and adopt the 2015 Register of Members’ Interests.
Before they could proceed, it was noted that there were not enough Members to form a quorum and a suggestion was made that ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
27 Oct 2015
BRRR Archive: BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The BRRR was approved and adopted after going through each page. The only minor changes were changing the wording on page 23 and adding the Corporate Social Investment (CSI) clause under observations in the report. This was important as many companies ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department on its 2014/15 Annual Report, with Minister present
15 Oct 2015
The Minister of Economic Development introduced the Department’s annual report, and told the Committee that jobs in South Africa had grown by 405 000, and total employment was 15.5 million as at March 2015. The number of jobs for youths had increased by 233 000 to a total of 6.2 million. ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 2014/5 performance: Auditor-General; DPME and FFC briefing
13 Oct 2015
The Auditor General’s office presented on the audit outcomes for the Department for 2014/15. The scope of the audit did not include service delivery, the Department’s budget or legislation and the audit was not responsible for fraud identification and prevention.
The overall audit outcome for the Competition Commission (CC) ...
Economic Development
Quarterly Labour Force Survey - informal sector: briefing by Statistics South Africa
7 Sep 2015
Statistics South Africa in a continuation of their briefing from the previous week, spoke about the Survey of Employers and the Self-Employed (SESE), and explained the implications of non-VAT registered businesses (with a gross turnover of less that R1m per annum), which most commonly exist in the informal sector. This ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance; Quarterly Labour Force Survey: Statistics South Africa briefing, with Minister present
1 Sep 2015
The presentation revolved around two topics -- a briefing by the Economic Development Department (EDD) on its first quarter performance, and by Statistics SA on the Quarterly Labour Force Survey.
The Minister of Economic Development spoke about the economy. From October 2010 to June 2015, employment had risen from 13.6 ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Ethical standards for elected public representatives and implementation: workshop
25 Aug 2015
The workshop on ethical standards for elected public representatives and their implementation, was the first in a series of three workshops for all provincial legislatures, metropolitan municipalities, district councils and local municipalities. It was indicated that South Africa had an elaborative integrity framework which included codes of conduct to guide ...