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Small Business Development
Committee Report on Small Business Development Budget
4 May 2016
The Chairperson took the Members to page 41 to revisit the Recommendations made by the Committee in relation to the Committee’s observations. Members recommended a report back on outstanding issues related to the Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo report; an adequate answer on the now discontinued process to appoint members for the ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) on its 2016-2020 Corporate Plan
16 Mar 2016
The CEO reported on the five programmes established by sefa in order to intensify the development of SMMEs and cooperatives which included: Access to finance to SMMEs and cooperatives; Post Investment Management; Building an efficient and effective sefa that is performance driven and sustainable; Building a strong and effective sefa ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plan
15 Mar 2016
The Committee was briefed on the strategic plan of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) and budget. The role of the DSBD was quite extensively set out, with the emphasis on its mandate to jump start the economy to ensure that small businesses reach their maximum potential to develop ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on programme review and proposals
9 Mar 2016
Documents awaited: Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on programme review and proposals [email info@pmg.org.za]
The CEO reported on the survey conducted by sefa on its products' review. The information was gathered from 13 key informants, interviews with sefa Exco and board members, National Treasury, Seda and IDC (Industrial Development Corporation). More ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development programme review: briefing by Minister, Deputy Minister & Director General
24 Feb 2016
The Minister, Deputy Minister and Director General presented the Programme Review of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). The Review’s diagnostic stage looked at DSBD’s operating environment, internal structures and the programmes themselves. The design stage involved developing strategic recommendations on the optimal portfolio mix to deliver the department’s ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its 2015/16 2nd/3rd Quarter performance, with Minister
17 Feb 2016
The Director General of the Department of Small Business Development presented its quarterly reports for the second and third quarters of operations. These reports highlighted areas of success and shortfall, in the latter case notably of expenditure in the areas of staff vacancies and proper allocation of funding to small ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals Report: adoption of final report
18 Nov 2015
The Ad hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence against Foreign Nationals met to attempt to finalise its report, and to adopt minutes of previous meetings. The Committee deliberated extensively on the draft Report but could not finalise the matter, or adopt the minutes, because it did not quorate at the ...
Small Business Development
Programme review and proposals: Department of Small Business Development briefing; Oversight and workshop report adoption, in presence of Deputy Minister
18 Nov 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (the Department) was expected to present a review of its programmes and to give proposals to the Committee. The Chairperson expressed extreme concern when it became apparent that the final internal review was not ready and that instead the consultancy firm had been asked ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development & Small Enterprise Development Agency on 2nd Quarter 2015/16 performance
11 Nov 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented its second quarter performance report, informing the Portfolio Committee that it had achieved 17 (54.8%) of its 26 performance indicators, and 14 (45.2%) of the 31 milestones. All of the invoices received had been paid within 30 days. Five agricultural cooperative projects ...
Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals
Inter-Ministerial Committee briefing
10 Nov 2015
Mr Jeff Radebe, Minister in the Presidency, briefed the Committee on the findings of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on the recent violent attacks on foreign nationals that had taken place across the country, particularly in KwaZulu Natal. The National Intelligence Coordinating Committee indicated that the instances of violence which flared up ...