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Economic Development
Economic Development Department on its 3rd & 4th Quarter 2014/15 Performance, with Minister present
4 Aug 2015
The Minister of Economic Development told the Committee said that in the third quarter, the Department had achieved 38 of its 54 targets, and in the fourth quarter 90 of its 111 targets. The Department’s 22 key performance indicators were also discussed, with the stimulation of development in township economies, ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Police Minister's Report on Nkandla
Ad Hoc Committee on Minister of Police Report on Nkandla Committee Programme
23 Jun 2015
The Committee met to consider its draft programme. The draft programme proposed that the work of the Committee should start on 21 July 2015 where the Minister of Police would table his report and the report would be deliberated on. The programme also proposed that the Committee undertake a site ...
Economic Development
Portfolio Committee on Economic Development outstanding work
23 Jun 2015
The Committee’s Content Advisor took Members through the five year strategic plan. He highlighted the priorities of the Committee; which included increasing oversight functions, active monitoring of departmental priorities, issues of national state interventions in the economy as it relates to infrastructure implementation, basic efficiency and development of departments in ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Police Minister's Report on Nkandla
Police Minister's Nkandla Report: Election of Chairperson; Parties to be called by the Committee
11 Jun 2015
The Ad Hoc Committee, having been appointed by the National Assembly, elected Mr Cedric Frolick as its chairperson. He suggested the Committee collate its programme but the meeting quickly turned into a debate on who the Committee could call to appear before it.
Some Members of the ruling party pointed ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Extension of deadline for disclosure of Members Interests
10 Jun 2015
The Chief Whips Forum had proposed that the date for the disclosure of Members’ Interests be extended from 30 June 2015 to 31 July 2015, in order to avoid a situation where Members would be late in the disclosure due to a busy programme. The Committee agreed that the deadline ...
Economic Development
Minister for Economic Development on Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) investment strategy
2 Jun 2015
Minister Ebrahim Patel said that the role of the IDC was important. Without the IDC, the economy would be worse off as the IDC’s level of investment was significant and moreover attracted private sector investments. The IDC used its investment portfolio to generate income to pay its overheads and to ...
Economic Development
Competition Tribunal & International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) on their 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
19 May 2015
The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) gave a presentation to the Committee on its annual performance and strategic plans. It reported that there had been improvements in the internal controls and compliance-related matters over the recent past as evidenced by the clean audit that ITAC had obtained for the 2012/13 ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Annual disclosure of members’ interests 2015: setting of deadline; new declaration form; Committee 2014 Annual Report
6 May 2015
The Registrar of Ethics and Members Interest noted that the Committee had met with the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and Sedibeng Municipality on 20 March 2015. She highlighted some of the observations and findings from that engagement:
●There had been a view that there should be further consultation with other provinces ...
Economic Development
International Trade Administration Commission, Competition Tribunal & Competition Commission 2015 Strategic Plans
28 Apr 2015
Document awaited: Contributions to Employment Creating Growth through ITAC’s Instruments
The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) made two presentations. The first was on its strategic and annual performance plans covering policy direction; legal frameworks; key strategic objectives performance areas and services; tariff investigations; trade remedy investigations; import and export control ...
Economic Development
Industrial Development Corporation Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
21 Apr 2015
The IDC is going to maximise its impact with existing resources it has to increasingly lead industrial capacity development.
The activities of the IDC are aligned to the programmes of the government that focus on driving increased economic activity in productive sectors and seeking to have a greater impact on ...