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Economic Development
Committee minutes
27 Jun 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted eight sets of minutes. Members voiced concerns about one of the minutes pointing out grammatical and spelling mistakes, and inaccuracies. The Committee minutes 3 May 2017 was accordingly withdrawn.
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 2018/19 draft budget and plans
14 Jun 2017
Developments at Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Puts Record Straight on Purpose of Its Meeting
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament gave the senior managers of the institution a torrid tough time and sent them packing to re-do the financial ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Preparatory meeting: adoption of minutes
14 Jun 2017
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament adopted two sets of minutes and discussed matters that arose from the sets of minutes. Issues on the table were around policy documents and feedback that has not been received from the executive authority regarding concerns from previous meetings the ...
Economic Development
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Market Inquiry outcomes: deliberations
13 Jun 2017
The Committee considered the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Market Inquiry outcomes prepared by the Committee’s Researcher as a summary to recap on the findings and recommendations made by the Competition Commission on the report. The Researcher shared the findings and the recommendations as well as the role of Parliament through the ...
Economic Development
Committee Report on Economic Development Budget
23 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development met to consider and make amendments to the Report of the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development on Budget Vote 25 and the Annual Performance Plans of the Department of Economic Development. Members were mainly concerned about the language medium and jargon used in these ...
Economic Development
Committee Report on Economic Development Budget
18 May 2017
The Committee met to deliberate on its Report on the Department of Economic Development’s Budget Vote.
Members mostly fixed a number of grammatical errors in the Report and agreed to remove paragraph 4.3 in the interim and interrogate it later.
The Committee decided to meet after the sitting on Tuesday, ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Strategic Planning Workshop
12 May 2017
The Parliament of South Africa is not doing oversight, but merely compliance. This comment by the Chairperson emerged during the discussion by the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament in its first strategic planning workshop.
Since 1994, Parliament has never changed the way it works. The number ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Secretary to Parliament response to oversight questions
11 May 2017
Document awaited
The Secretary to Parliament appeared before the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament to provide explanations on matters the Committee had raised during previous meetings between November 2016 and February 2017.
Answers from the Secretary dealt with filling of vacancies; performance management system; centralization ...
Economic Development
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 ...
Economic Development
Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal & ITAC Annual Performance Plan
3 May 2017
The Competition Commission presented its Annual Performance Plan 2017/18, inclusive of 35 targets within its nine programmes and a budget allocation of R340.525 million. Human resource capacity was to increase with the recruitment of 100 more people. Seven sectors were enlisted as Priority Sectors, of which the Commission noted the ...