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Economic Development
Joint Study Tour to Malaysia Report
21 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted with amendments the Report on the Joint Study Tour to Malaysia.
The purpose of the study tour was to learn from Malaysia, as a country that has long followed and implemented long-term development planning to achieve certain objectives such as economic growth and employment, ...
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Economic Development Department on Quarter 2 performance, with Minister and Deputy Minister
14 Nov 2017
Documents handed out: Q2 report – EDD [document awaited as it is being updated]
The Economic Development Department (EDD) reported that South Africa’s unemployment rate had remained steady at 27.7% for the past three quarters. Jobs had increased by 92 000, to 16 192 000, while unemployment had increased by 33 000 to 6 210 000. ...
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Oversight Report
7 Nov 2017
Apologies were received from the Member, Dr MJ Cardo
The Committee adopted outstanding minutes of meeting as well as Reports prepared on oversight visits. All minutes and Reports were adopted, some with minor amendments. There was a discussion on the absence of Mr M Mabika. The Chairperson requested the members ...
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Committee minutes
31 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee considered and adopted six sets of minutes.
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Economic Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
24 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development deliberated on the contents of the Department of Economic Development’s Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, making recommendations and changes to the draft report. The meeting was conducted on a page-by-page process, as it was assumed that ...
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Economic Development Department; Competition Commission + Tribunal Annual Report, with Minister
10 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The Economic Development Department achieved all its 23 KPIs and spent 98.6% of its budget. There were 170 products planned, but it over-achieved to 202 products. It indicated that there was an increase in employment of a 538 000 jobs from 15 675 000 to 16 ...
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IDC + ITAC on their 2016/17 Annual Report
4 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
IDC performance highlights for 2016/17 include:
• 175 transactions approved worth R15.3 billion up by 6% from the previous year;
• Total funding disbursed R11 billion, which was a decline of 3%;
• Jobs expected to be created or saved 20 881 (18 206 new jobs,2 675 jobs saved), up ...
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Economic Development Department + entities' performance: DPME, Auditor-General, Public Service Commission input
3 Oct 2017
The Committee heard briefings from Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) and Public Service Commission on the performance of EDD.
DPME noted that its analysis of the EDD Annual Report against its Annual Performance Plan could not be done due to the Department’s late submission of ...
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Economic Development Department on Quarter 1 performance, with Minister and Deputy
5 Sep 2017
The Economic Development Department (EDD) presented its reports for the fourth quarter of 2016/17 and the first quarter of 2017/18. However, as the fourth quarter report had not yet been audited, the Minister focused on only some of the key areas, and then dealt with the first quarter in great ...
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Pharmaceutical Industry: Department of Health & DTI briefing
28 Jun 2017
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) combined with the National Department of Health (DoH) to present an overview of the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on the procurement of anti-retrovirals (ARVs).
The Dti provided a broad profile of the industry and indicated that the pharmaceutical market in South Africa ...