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Economic Development
Economic Development Department on Quarter 3 performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
14 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development provided the Committee with an overview of the economy from the Department’s perspective, before providing details of its performance during the third quarter of the current financial year.
The gross domestic product (GDP) in the quarter had shown an increase of 3.1% compared to the ...
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. ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Integrated Urban Development Framework: COGTA deputy minister briefing to Social Services cluster
11 Oct 2017
The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) briefed the Social Services Cluster of Portfolio Committees on the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF), accompanied by the Deputy Ministers of Economic Development and Transport.
The briefing touched on the following aspects: urbanisation and immigration in South Africa; legacy of ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department; Competition Commission + Tribunal Annual Report, with Minister
10 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The Economic Development Department achieved all its 23 KPIs and spent 98.6% of its budget. There were 170 products planned, but it over-achieved to 202 products. It indicated that there was an increase in employment of a 538 000 jobs from 15 675 000 to 16 ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister and Deputy
5 Sep 2017
The Economic Development Department (EDD) presented its reports for the fourth quarter of 2016/17 and the first quarter of 2017/18. However, as the fourth quarter report had not yet been audited, the Minister focused on only some of the key areas, and then dealt with the first quarter in great ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Labour on its Annual Performance Plan, with Deputy Minister
6 Jun 2017
Deputy Minister Holomisa noted that the Department of Labour’s Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan had to be reviewed due to changes in the labour market. High levels of employment and unemployment had led to an increase in the demand for the Department’s services. Growing uncertainty in the future had ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Economic Development Department on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy
30 May 2017
The Department of Economic Development (EDD) briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. The Minister and his deputy were present at the meeting.
In his preliminary remarks, the Minister said the Annual Performance Plan 2017/18 was the key roadmap to the Department’s work for the next twelve months. The ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Energy on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister and Deputy Minister
23 May 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Energy on its Annual Performance Plan and Budget.
In her preliminary remarks, the Minister of Energy said that there were two critical issues that had to be seen to. The first was on the operations and effectiveness of the DoE’s entities. ...
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
Economic Development Department on its Third Quarter Performance, with Minister & Deputy in attendance
28 Feb 2017
The Minister reported an unemployment rate of 26.7%, this is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 27.1% of Quarter 2, 2016. The labour force increased by 143 000. 235 000 jobs were created in Q3:127 000 were formal non-agriculture jobs, 53 000 informal non-agriculture, 38 000 in agriculture and 17 ...
Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on Quarter 2 Performance
15 Nov 2016
The Minister stated that growth rates on the African continent were faster than global average since 2000, driven by an expanding demand for commodities, rising urbanisation and growing investment levels. However, African growth is now slowing sharply. South Africa’s growth will be affected by weaker continental growth. Total trade between ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department, Competition Tribunal & IDC on their 2015/16 Annual Reports, with Minister & Deputy
13 Oct 2016
Department of Economic Development Annual Report
Competition Commission of South Africa Annual Report
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited Annual Report
The Minister highlighted that the EDD spent 99.8% of its allocated budget and was able to meet its performance targets from the 23 indicators that were included in ...