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Economic Development
Investment and external trade promotion: Department of Trade and Industry briefing
28 Nov 2017
The Department of Trade and Industry (Dti) reported that South Africa was now ranked the number 38 exporter in the world. Over the past seven years, the country’s exports had shown a firm growth of 19%, which represented additional exports of R126 billion at constant prices. In 2016, its top ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Lung Diseases on Mines and silicosis class action cases: ex-mineworkers lawyers briefing
22 Nov 2017
The Committee received briefings from legal firms involved in the class action cases dealing with lung diseases and silicosis suffered by former miners, as well as submissions from representatives of mining houses, the Chamber of Mines, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the national Department of Health (DoH). ...
Economic Development
Joint Study Tour to Malaysia Report
21 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted with amendments the Report on the Joint Study Tour to Malaysia.
The purpose of the study tour was to learn from Malaysia, as a country that has long followed and implemented long-term development planning to achieve certain objectives such as economic growth and employment, ...
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. ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee report on Gauteng oversight
8 Nov 2017
The main agenda items for the meeting contained two issues - the Committee report on its oversight visit to Gauteng and the response from the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) regarding the Minister’s availability to respond to the Committee on the Allegations of State Capture.
The Gauteng oversight visit was ...
Economic Development
Oversight Report
7 Nov 2017
Apologies were received from the Member, Dr MJ Cardo
The Committee adopted outstanding minutes of meeting as well as Reports prepared on oversight visits. All minutes and Reports were adopted, some with minor amendments. There was a discussion on the absence of Mr M Mabika. The Chairperson requested the members ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Allegations against Minister of Mineral Resources: Legal Advisor on way forward
1 Nov 2017
Documents Handed Out: Parliamentary Legal Advisor opinion on "leaked emails" issue to Public Enterprises. (Handed out only to Committee Members)
The main agenda item for the meeting was the further Committee deliberations on media allegations on “state capture” that involved the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, who was supposed to ...
Economic Development
Committee minutes
31 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted six sets of minutes.
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mine Closure and Rehabilitation: Centre for Environmental Rights briefing
25 Oct 2017
The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) on mine closures and rehabilitation and what could be done to address some of the associated problems. The main thrust of the briefing was the failure of mine closure and rehabilitation in SA. The process was poorly managed and resulted in severe problems for ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
24 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development deliberated on the contents of the Department of Economic Development’s Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, making recommendations and changes to the draft report. The meeting was conducted on a page-by-page process, as it was assumed that ...