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NCOP Economic and Business Development
Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill [B12-2015]: Department of Transport briefing
11 Aug 2015
The Bill sought to give effect to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (“MLC, 2006”) and Work in Fishing Convention 2007 (“C188”) and to provide for matters connected therewith. The MLC, 2006 and C188 were adopted under the auspices of the International Labour Organisation, (“ILO”) a United Nations body aimed at ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Consumer Tribunal on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
17 Jun 2015
The National Consumer Tribunal (NCT) said its mandate had been expanded by the National Credit Amendment Act, No 19 of 2014. The definition of prohibited conduct had been amended and through this amendment it had expanded the number and types of prohibited conduct that can be brought before the NCT. ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Credit Regulator on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
10 Jun 2015
The National Credit Regulator mandate included promoting transparency and fairness within the South African consumer credit market. It presented the outputs and outcomes for its five programmes such as reducing the levels of over-indebtedness to improving compliance with regulations. These programmes included quarterly milestones, projected budget figures, organisation goals/targets and ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
National Youth Development Agency on its functional programmes & alignment to government policy objectives to create work for young people
9 Jun 2015
The Select Committee on Economic and Business Development was told that the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) had been established in 2009 following a merger between the Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) and the National Youth Commission (NYC). Its role was to facilitate the development of South African youths in all ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
National Lotteries Board on its 2015/16 Annual Performance Plan and developments
3 Jun 2015
The National Lotteries Board (NLB) had distributed more than R18 billion to good causes since inception 16 years ago. The Lotteries Amendment Act came into effect on 14 April 2015 with the main changes being that the National Lotteries Board (NLB) was renamed the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), that there ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Transport 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans, with Minister in attendance
2 Jun 2015
A large delegation from the Department of Transport (DOT), led by Ms Dipuo Peters, Minister of Transport, delivered its Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16 and its Strategic Plan for 2015/16-2019/20. It dealt, among other things, with four key service delivery areas: road rehabilitation, road safety, rural access and public transport. ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
South African Tourism on its 2015 Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan
27 May 2015
South African (SA) Tourism briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan noting that the presentation was quite abridged, but later offering to send through more details to the Committee. Its three main areas of focus were leisure tourism business, the National Convention Bureau and the Tourism ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Labour on its 2015 Annual Performance and Strategic Plans
26 May 2015
The Department of Labour briefed the Select Committee on Economic and Business Development on its 2014/15 Annual Performance and Strategic Plan for 2015/16. The report explained that there were six programmes, and that the main Administration comprised the Ministry; Deputy Minister, Director General’s Office; Corporate Services (CS), Chief Operations Officer ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Department of Labour briefing on its Strategic Plan postponed
12 May 2015
The Department of Labour was scheduled to brief the Committee on its Stategic Plan, Annual Performance Plan and budget for the current financial year. However the meeting was cancelled due to the absence of the Minister, Deputy Minister and the Director-General and without apologies from the two prinicipals. Members deemed ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Department of Tourism on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
6 May 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20. The Committee was provided with an illustrative overview on the plan of the NDT leading up to the National Development Plan’s 2030 vision. The legislative and policy mandate of the ...