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Communications and Digital Technologies
Committee Report on Department of Communications budget
12 May 2015
The Committee's draft Report on the adoption of the budget for the Department of Communications (the Department) and its entities was tabled and discussed. Members suggested a number of grammatical and syntax amendments, which were agreed to.
Members then began to consider the more detailed content of the Report, going ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Space Affairs Act: Proposed Amendments: SA Council for Space Affairs briefing; Budget Report deliberations
12 May 2015
The South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA) gave a briefing on the review of the Space Affairs Act, which currently governed space affairs in South Africa. The Act was passed in 1993 and amended in 1995. There had been significant developments since then in the national space arena, including ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Committee Report on Trade and Industry Budget Vote & Transfer Pricing
30 Apr 2015
Members of the Committee considered the first draft of the Committee Report (the Report) on the budget vote and deliberated upon it extensively. Major areas of the discussion included the following:
-The strategic and annual performance plans of entities relating to the Department.
-The content of the nine point plan, ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transfer Pricing Public Hearings: Submissions from Department of Trade and Industry, Alternative Information Development Centre, SA Mining Development Centre, Mr F Shivambu and Prof B Turok briefings
29 Apr 2015
The Committee continued with public hearings on transfer pricing, taking presentations from a number of institutions and individuals.
Mr F Shivambu, Prof. B Turok and representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the ; the South African Mining Development Association (SAMDA) gave inputs on Transfer Pricing to the ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Tobacco Institute of South Africa & Chevron South Africa briefings on industry challenges & transformation
24 Apr 2015
The Tobacco Institute of South Africa and Chevron South Africa presented various issues pertaining to the tobacco and the petroleum industries within a changing economic climate in South Africa.
Tobacco Institute of South Africa (TISA) spoke about the trade in illicit cigarettes within South Africa; transformation efforts within the domestic ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transfer pricing: hearing
22 Apr 2015
The Davis Tax Committee, said about three years ago, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) did a very aggressive investigation into transfer pricing and collected R1.1 billion for just that one financial year. This indicated that there was a considerable “haemorrhaging of money”. It was not only companies that were ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications & Companies Tribunal on their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
21 Apr 2015
The National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) strategy focus was on source inspections and to lock out non-compliant products before the products entered point of trade and ensure that NRCS was more efficient in regulating the market. Retail and distributor inspections were meant for intelligence gathering and to identify non-compliant ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC handing over control to MultiChoice; Department of Communications; GCIS; ICASA; SABC; Brand South Africa 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans, with Minister & Auditor General; MDDA Board recommendations
21 Apr 2015
The Minister of Communications said that the Department’s Strategic Plan imperatives were the product of a collaborative effort to take the Department forward. ICASA had reduced its strategic goals from eight to three to enable the Department and Committee to measure them. This approach also enabled ICASA to focus on ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Metrology Institute of South Africa on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
15 Apr 2015
The National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA) presented the Committee with its Strategic Plan 2015/16 – 2019/20 and Annual Performance Plan. NMISA played a key role in the establishment of measurement traceability and the international equivalence thereof, sitting at the interface between the national and international systems. The expanding ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) & National Credit Regulator (NCR) on their Strategic & Annual Performance Plans
14 Apr 2015
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) and the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) reported on their Strategic Plans 2015/16 – 2019/20 and Annual Performance Plans for 2015/16.
The CIPC said although customers demonstrated more than average satisfaction with CIPC, stakeholders were less satisfied with the CIPC across all attribute dimensions. ...