Mr Simphiwe George Mthimunye

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Simphiwe George Mthimunye

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development National Youth Development Agency on its functional programmes & alignment to government policy objectives to create work for young people
    9 Jun 2015

    The Select Committee on Economic and Business Development was told that the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) had been established in 2009 following a merger between the Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) and the National Youth Commission (NYC). Its role was to facilitate the development of South African youths in all ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour National Lotteries Board on its 2015/16 Annual Performance Plan and developments
    3 Jun 2015

    The National Lotteries Board (NLB) had distributed more than R18 billion to good causes since inception 16 years ago. The Lotteries Amendment Act came into effect on 14 April 2015 with the main changes being that the National Lotteries Board (NLB) was renamed the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), that there ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Department of Transport 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans, with Minister in attendance
    2 Jun 2015

    A large delegation from the Department of Transport (DOT), led by Ms Dipuo Peters, Minister of Transport, delivered its Annual Performance Plan for 2015/16 and its Strategic Plan for 2015/16-2019/20. It dealt, among other things, with four key service delivery areas: road rehabilitation, road safety, rural access and public transport. ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Department of Labour on its 2015 Annual Performance and Strategic Plans
    26 May 2015

    The Department of Labour briefed the Select Committee on Economic and Business Development on its 2014/15 Annual Performance and Strategic Plan for 2015/16. The report explained that there were six programmes, and that the main Administration comprised the Ministry; Deputy Minister, Director General’s Office; Corporate Services (CS), Chief Operations Officer ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Economic Development Department on its 2015/16 Strategic and Annual Performance Plan, in presence of Minister
    6 May 2015

    The Minister, Deputy Minister and Department of Economic Development (EDD) briefed the Committee on the 2015 Annual and Strategic Plans. The Minister noted the importance of considering national and provincial development together, and said that NCOP was a key organ in ensuring oversight at provincial levels. The country had to ...

  • Ethics and Members' Interest Annual disclosure of members’ interests 2015: setting of deadline; new declaration form; Committee 2014 Annual Report
    6 May 2015

    The Registrar of Ethics and Members Interest noted that the Committee had met with the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and Sedibeng Municipality on 20 March 2015. She highlighted some of the observations and findings from that engagement:

    ●There had been a view that there should be further consultation with other provinces ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour Department of Tourism on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
    6 May 2015

    The National Department of Tourism (NDT) briefed the Committee on its Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan 2015/16 - 2019/20. The Committee was provided with an illustrative overview on the plan of the NDT leading up to the National Development Plan’s 2030 vision. The legislative and policy mandate of the ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Department of Energy on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans, with Minister
    5 May 2015

    The Department of Energy (DoE) briefed the Committee on its annual performance plan (APP) and its strategic plan for 2015/16-2019/20. It had been experiencing a number of challenges, including generation capacity, distribution infrastructure, poor access to energy and volatility of petroleum prices. Other challenges concerned the aging energy infrastructure, escalating ...

  • NCOP Economic and Business Development Nairobi International Convention on Removal of Wrecks ratification: briefing by Department of Transport
    17 Mar 2015

    The Select Committee on Economic Development met to receive a briefing from the Department of Transport (DOT) on the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks, 2007. Ratification would allow South Africa to be a party as a signatory to the Convention, as adopted by the International Maritime Organisation ...

  • NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour Incentives Scheme: briefing by National Empowerment Fund (NEF)
    25 Feb 2015

    The National Empowerment Fund (NEF) presented its new initiative on driving economic growth across all provinces, and highlighted that black entrepreneurs were still largely left out of the economic mainstream because they lacked the capital to invest in large business ventures and penetrate large lucrative markets. Currently black entrepreneurs representation ...