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SA Tourism on Tottenham Hotspur sponsorship deal, with Minister
7 Feb 2023
The South African Tourism (SAT) Board was present for the briefing on the alleged billion rand sponsorship deal with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and the Minister was later summoned. SAT discussed its strategic rationale; the sponsorship opportunity and potential return on investment should the project go ahead. It also addressed ...
Tourism
SA Tourism Quarter 1 & 2 performance; summoning of Minister
29 Nov 2022
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing from South African Tourism (SAT) on its performance report for the first and second quarters of the 2022/23 financial year. It reported that there had been a steady improvement globally from January to July. Europe was the best-performing region, at 26% below 2019 levels, ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC Board recommendations: adoption; SA Postbank Ltd Amendment Bill: proposed amendments
24 Nov 2022
Committee Report on the filling of 12 board vacancies on South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
The Portfolio Committee was presented with its Sub-Committee report on the recommended candidates for the SABC Board. Members of the full Committee were hesitant to adopt the report as they had reservations about two ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SA Postbank Limited Amendment Bill: deliberations; SITA, SABC, SAPO, DCDT and USAASA/USAF on material irregularities and action plan to address the AG concerns
22 Nov 2022
The Committee met virtually with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) to discuss the material irregularities identified by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) in the Department and some of its entities, and the action plans to address the AGSA's concerns. The Committee also neared the finish ...
Tourism
Tourism BRRR
25 Oct 2022
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Tourism convened on a virtual platform to deliberate on its 2021/2022 Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) for the Department of Tourism and entity.
During the discussion, Members highlighted the issue of safety and security for tourists concerning the ...
Tourism
National intervention to prevent attacks on long-distance bus operators: DoT briefing; with Minister
13 Sep 2022
The Portfolio Committee was briefed in a virtual meeting by the Department of Transport (DoT) on the attacks on long-distance bus operators, and was told that extortion had become institutionalised in the public transport space, where the taxi industry was the main culprit. The Minister said this had become a ...
Tourism
SA Tourism Q3 & 4 2021/22 Performance
6 Sep 2022
South African Tourism (SAT) noted amongst its achievements for Quarter 3 and 4 of 2021/22 that it had exceeded its targets on international and regional tourist arrivals, domestic holiday trips and Rand value of domestic holiday direct spend. The tourism activation at the Dubai World Expo 2020 was also ...
Tourism
Department of Tourism Quarter 3 & 4 2021/22 Performance
30 Aug 2022
PMG was not present at the meeting.
Tourism
Taxi Violence & Ongoing attacks on long distance bus services: INTERCAPE Bus Service briefing
23 Aug 2022
The Intercape Bus Service (Intercape) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Tourism on its perspectives regarding incidents of violence in the long-distance transport sector. The South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) sent through a briefing, but was unable to attend the meeting.
Intercape outlined the nature of the attacks on ...
Tourism
Tourism Infrastructure Projects & DBSA MOU; with Deputy Minister
7 Jun 2022
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The National Department of Tourism (NDT) and Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) gave an overview of the Memorandum of Agreement between the two parties for the 2020/21 to 2022/23 financial years with the DBSA acting as an implementing agent for the NDT in 78 tourism projects for which ...