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Economic Development
Economic Development Department on its 2014/15 Annual Report, with Minister present
15 Oct 2015
The Minister of Economic Development introduced the Department’s annual report, and told the Committee that jobs in South Africa had grown by 405 000, and total employment was 15.5 million as at March 2015. The number of jobs for youths had increased by 233 000 to a total of 6.2 million. ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 2014/5 performance: Auditor-General; DPME and FFC briefing
13 Oct 2015
The Auditor General’s office presented on the audit outcomes for the Department for 2014/15. The scope of the audit did not include service delivery, the Department’s budget or legislation and the audit was not responsible for fraud identification and prevention.
The overall audit outcome for the Competition Commission (CC) ...
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Economic Development Department 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance; Quarterly Labour Force Survey: Statistics South Africa briefing, with Minister present
1 Sep 2015
The presentation revolved around two topics -- a briefing by the Economic Development Department (EDD) on its first quarter performance, and by Statistics SA on the Quarterly Labour Force Survey.
The Minister of Economic Development spoke about the economy. From October 2010 to June 2015, employment had risen from 13.6 ...
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International Trade Instruments: workshop with International Trade Administration Commission & Department of Trade and Industry
17 Aug 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry provided the Committee with information on the status of many trade negotiations currently taking place. Most of these programmes aimed to increase African participation in international trade, as well as intra-regional trade within Africa. Global trade was rapidly evolving to include both intermediate goods ...
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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 ...
Economic Development
Consideration of outstanding work: postponement of meeting
17 Jun 2015
A meeting was scheduled for 9:30am in an attempt to review the Committee’s outstanding work. Very few members arrived as scheduled (3 ANC members) and three other members arrived within 20 minutes of the stipulated time. The present committee members made frantic efforts to reach their colleagues with an aim ...
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Automotive sector: briefing by Economic Development Department & Department of Trade and Industry
9 Jun 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave the Committee a full breakdown of the participants in the South African motor vehicle industry. There were seven original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- Ford, Nissan and BMW (in Gauteng), Toyota (in Durban), Mercedes (in East London), General Motors (in Port Elizabeth) and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...