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Tourism Enterprise Partnership on support to Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises; Committee Oversight Report
27 Feb 2015
The Tourism Enterprise Partnership (TEP) briefed the Committee on the support it provided to Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs). The TEP was a non-profit company functioning on public private partnerships. Notable achievements were enterprise and supplier development programmes as well as having a well established practice of cost sharing ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Agrèment South Africa Bill: Departmental briefing, with Minister and Deputy Minister
24 Feb 2015
The Department of Public Works made a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on the Agrèment South Africa Bill 2015, and provided answers to questions posed by the relatively few Members in attendance.
The Minister introduced the presentation by outlining the Department’s five key priorities for the year. These were:
Tourism
Implications of 2015 State of the Nation Address for Tourism: briefings by Committee Content Adviser and Researcher
20 Feb 2015
The Committee Researcher, Ms Joyce Ntuli and Committee Content Adviser, Dr Sibusiso Khuzwayo provided an analysis of the State of the Nation Address 2015 on implications that it had for the tourism industry.
An overview of tourism figures showed that current unemployment figures had dropped from 25.1% to 24.3%. It ...
Tourism
PC Tourism: Third Term Committee Programme; Northern Cape Oversight Report
14 Nov 2014
The Draft Northern Cape Report 2014 was adopted as amended.
The Committee engaged on discussion over its Third Term Committee Programme. Much of the discussion centred over the planned oversight visit to Pretoria on the 25-28 November 2014. The Committee intended to pay a visit to the offices of the ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Joint Committee's Annual Report; Consideration of a complaint by Hon HB Holomisa (complaint handled in closed session)
12 Nov 2014
The Committee meeting started late, as insufficient Members were present to achieve a quorum. A DA Member noted her dissatisfaction with the time wasted, and suggested that in future, should insufficient numbers be present within 15 minutes of the scheduled time, the meeting should be adjourned. However, an ANC Member ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Construction Industry Development Board & Agrément SA on their 2013/14 Annual Reports
11 Nov 2014
The Construction Industry Development Board and Agrément South Africa presented their 2013/14 Annual Reports to the Portfolio Committee. The Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) achieved an unqualified audit report, with emphasis of matter, which called for the restatement of figures of the previous financial year to correspond with figures of ...
Tourism
Local Government support for tourism development in SA: briefing by Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
7 Nov 2014
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (DCOGTA) briefed the Committee on local government support of tourism development in SA. Areas of emphasis included the legislative and policy context, including the Constitution and the White Paper on Local Government, and the link between local government and economic development. The ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Council for the Built Environment (CBE) on its 2013/14 Annual Report
4 Nov 2014
The Council for the Built Environment presented the highlights of its 2013/14 Annual Report. The CBE has received an unqualified audit from the Auditor-General continually since 2011/12. In 2013/14, 86% of the APP targets were achieved. Since 2011, the percentage of targets achieved has risen by approximately 10% every financial ...
Tourism
Tourism Budget Review and Recommendations Report
29 Oct 2014
The Committee considered its Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). In the interest of time the Committee Content Advisor briefly took the Committee through the Report, with greater emphasis being placed on deliberations by Members on the recommendations contained in the Report. Overall there seemed to be agreement amongst ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Independent Development Trust on its 2013/14 Annual Report
28 Oct 2014
The Independent Development Trust (IDT) remains in a precarious financial position. This emerged when it was presenting its annual report for the year under review to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works. It reported that there had been supplementary funding of R200 million from the National Treasury for the financial ...