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Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on Transformation
27 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Minister of Economic Development on the impact created by the Industrial Development Corporation’s (IDC’s) investment decisions on transformation and economic inclusion. The Department had set a five year target for the IDC to promote economic inclusion and had provided it with R32 billion funding ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Parmed Report Draft: consideration
26 Nov 2018
Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Amendment Act, 1996 [No. 8 of 1996] - G 17069
The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme considered its draft report on Parmed, but could not adopt it because the NCOP component was not quorating. During the discussion it ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Committee Report on Parmed
14 Nov 2018
The Chairpersons opened the meeting and asked members if they would like to discuss the report on PARMED or if they wanted to dismiss the meeting as quorum was not met. The purpose of the meeting was to adopt the report but due to quorum not being met this could ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department Quarter 1 & 2 performance; with Minister and Deputy present
13 Nov 2018
The Minister of Economic Development, Mr Ebrahim Patel, met with the Committee to brief it on quarter one and two performance of the Department of Economic Development (EDD) for the 2018/19 financial year. Quarter one covered the period 1 April 2018 to 30 June 2018 and the presentation addressed highlights ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Parmed Report
7 Nov 2018
Documents Handed Out: Draft Report of the Ad Hoc Joint Committee on PARMED; Economic Freedom Fighters Written Submission to Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Parmed Act; Economic Freedom Fighters and Others v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others (5554/2015) [2015] ZAWCHC 184; [2016] 1 All SA 520 (WCC) (8 December ...
Economic Development
Committee business
6 Nov 2018
The Committee considered multiple outstanding minutes from 21 August to 16 October 2018. Members went through each document individually and made corrections to some of them before adopting. Minutes were adopted for all sessions except the second half of the 16th October meeting.
Members raised several issues with the draft ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
30 Oct 2018
Economic Development Budget Review & Recommendations Report at Budget Review & Recommendations
The Committee considered and adopted its Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) on the Economic Development Department and its entities: Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal and International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC).
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Legal perspective on co-application of Parmed Act and Medical Schemes Act: Council for Medical Schemes briefing
24 Oct 2018
Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Amendment Act, 1996 [No. 8 of 1996] - G 17069
The Sub Committee was established to review and amend the Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Amendment Act. As part of this process, the sub committee engaged with various role players and today received ...
Economic Development
IDC 2017/18 Annual Report; Competition Amendment Bill: adoption
16 Oct 2018
The Committee passed the final version (B-list) of the Competition Amendment Bill as well as the Committee Report on the Bill.
The DA objected to both, highlighting that the Bill gave too much powers to the Minister. The party further complained that the process undertaken by the Committee was questionable ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department 2017/18 Annual Report; with Minister & Deputy Minister
11 Oct 2018
The EDD briefed the Committee on its 2017/18 annual report. The Minister and Deputy Minister were in attendance.
The EDD received a clean audit, and there as an overall improvement in the control environment as evidenced by less findings compared to the previous financial years.
In terms ...