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Small Business Development
Minister of Small Business Development on Department Written Responses required by Committee
7 Jun 2017
The Minister of the Department of Small Business Development appeared before the Committee to respond to criticisms of poor performance by her Department.
The Minister expressed her apologies for her non-attendance at meetings of the Committee in the past, and said that she never intended to disrespect the Members as ...
Small Business Development
Abalimi Cooperatives progress report by Department of Small Business Development
31 May 2017
The Abalimi Cooperatives project is a pilot project of 12 agricultural cooperatives in KwaZulu-Natal, an initiative which will guide the future model of cooperatives in South Africa to develop communities with the aim of uplifting them from poverty.
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) outlined the tasks it had ...
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400 cooperatives supported since inception: DSBD progress report & intervention plan
24 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development expressed its disappointment and strong rejection of a progress report on the development status of 400 cooperatives funded by the Department since its inception and the intervention plan to address challenges identified. The report noted the 88% failure rate of cooperatives, and since ...
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Committee Report on Mpumalanga Oversight
17 May 2017
The Committee commended the drafting of the report by the Content Advisor in terms of its details. The report called upon the Director-General to report to the Committee by the end of May on the status of the cooperatives and that this was imperative since the Director-General had declined to ...
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Committee Report on Department of Small Business Development Budget; Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill: consideration
10 May 2017
Document handed out: Committee Report on Department of Small Business Development Budget [available once published Tabled Committee Reports]
The Committee convened to consider its report on the Department of Small Business Development’s (DSBD’s) Budget Vote for 2017/18, and the implications of proceeding with the Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill.
The ...
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Department of Small Business Development, SEFA and SEDA Annual Performance Plan
3 May 2017
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented its 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan. The Department has been undergoing a structural organisational change as a result of the DPME and National Treasury’s proposal to change its strategic approach to its mandate. This triggered a new structure which will now focus on ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development restructuring: AGSA, DPME, FFC, DPSA input
2 May 2017
AGSA laid out the criteria that it will use to carry out the 2016/17 audit of the department. It did not provide any specific audit related information because the audit will commence only in July. Once the audit is completed, the AG will return in September to report on its ...
Small Business Development
Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill consideration of submissions; Alignment of Cooperatives Model with support services briefing
23 Mar 2017
Alignment of Cooperatives Model with support services
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on the progress made in terms of the remedial action plan presented to the Committee on 7 December 2016 and to report on aligning support services to the model of developing the Abalimi ...
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Department of Small Business Development on its Quarter 3 performance
22 Mar 2017
The Department highlighted to the Committee that in the third quarter, programme 1 performed well achieving 78.6% or 11 of its 14 planned quarterly targets; and has spent 59.9% of its budget by 31 December 2016. With programme 2, it achieved 90% of its 10 quarterly targets. The policy and ...
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Community Economic Development model through cooperatives development; oversight visit to KZN
8 Mar 2017
The draft report on the Committee’s oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) was presented for consideration, and all the Members agreed that it was an accurate record of the visit. Some words and phrases were changed for the document to be consistent with the content of the visit. It had been ...