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Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Development Agency & Small Enterprise Finance Agency on their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
15 Apr 2015
Small businesses are struggling to access finance, markets and adequate infrastructure. Consequently, they end up operating on pavements and in buildings that lack water supply and sanitation and have tripping electricity. The attitude of big businesses was exacerbating this problem because they are hell-bent on blocking the way for small ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on Strategic and Annual Performance Plan 2015, in presence of Minister
25 Mar 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2019, and the Annual Performance Plans for 2015/16. It was noted, by way of context, that the mandate around promotion of small businesses and cooperatives had initially been with the Department of Trade ...
Small Business Development
Local procurement plans of Defence, Correctional Services, Health, Basic Education, Higher Education and Social Development Departments to ensure SMMEs / Cooperatives access to market
18 Mar 2015
The purpose of this meeting was to give the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development the opportunity to assess progress made by government departments in implementing the policy of ensuring that 30% of procurement was sourced from small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives. The Committee also wished to ...
Tourism
Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP) to support SMMEs: briefing by National Department of Tourism
13 Mar 2015
The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Tourism Incentive Programme (TIP). Both Minister Derek Hanekom and Deputy Minister Tokozile Xasa made opening statements.
Minister Hanekom said in 2014 when the NDT briefed the Committee on the TIP Members were concerned that not enough progress had been ...
Small Business Development
SMMEs and Cooperatives: infrastructure support; Transversal agreements with Departments of Telecommunications, Water Affairs, Transport and Energy
11 Mar 2015
The Portfolio Committee for Small Business Development met with the Department of Water and Sanitation, the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, the Department of Transport and the Department of Energy to discuss the support, initiatives and envisioned transversal agreements between these departments and the Department of Small Business Development ...
Small Business Development
Access to land for Agricultural SMMEs and Cooperatives in Sector: input by Contralesa, Ingonyama Trust, House of Traditional Leaders
4 Mar 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development invited the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) and the National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) to engage on the issues of small business development in the rural communities and access to land for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and ...
Tourism
Implications of 2015 State of the Nation Address for Tourism: briefings by Committee Content Adviser and Researcher
20 Feb 2015
The Committee Researcher, Ms Joyce Ntuli and Committee Content Adviser, Dr Sibusiso Khuzwayo provided an analysis of the State of the Nation Address 2015 on implications that it had for the tourism industry.
An overview of tourism figures showed that current unemployment figures had dropped from 25.1% to 24.3%. It ...
Small Business Development
Solar Geysers Rollout Programme: Opportunities for SMMEs and Cooperatives
18 Feb 2015
The Committee met to hear about the progress made by the Department of Small Business Development (DBSD) and Department of Energy (DOE) towards the signing of the transversal agreements aimed at the opening of market space for small and medium enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives. After summarising the main points made ...
Small Business Development
Plastics companies role in supporting SMMEs & cooperatives: Plastics SA briefing
19 Nov 2014
Plastics SA, the mouthpiece of the South African plastics industry, stated that this industry contributed 14.2% to local manufacturing and its It is worth noting that the GDP multiplier effect of plastics as a growth driver for the economy is approximately 2,7 and the employment multiplier is 3,5. It briefed ...
Tourism
PC Tourism: Third Term Committee Programme; Northern Cape Oversight Report
14 Nov 2014
The Draft Northern Cape Report 2014 was adopted as amended.
The Committee engaged on discussion over its Third Term Committee Programme. Much of the discussion centred over the planned oversight visit to Pretoria on the 25-28 November 2014. The Committee intended to pay a visit to the offices of the ...