Small Business Development
National Small Enterprise Bill: public hearings
28 Nov 2023
South African Cooperative Banking Association (SACOBA) (awaited submission)
The Portfolio Committee convened on a virtual platform to receive submissions from stakeholders on the National Small Enterprise Bill [B16-2023].
Employer SA believed that incorporating clauses enshrining non-racialism in the Bill aligned with the constitutional values of the nation, contributing to ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
2023 SONA Incident hearing: Day 3
22 Nov 2023
NA: Unrevised hansard – 9 February 2023
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliaments and Provincial Legislatures Act 4 of 2004
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Amendment Act 9 of 2019
The Powers and Privileges Committee had a hybrid meeting to conclude its hearing on the ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
2023 SONA Incident hearing: Day 1
20 Nov 2023
NA: Unrevised hansard – 9 February 2023
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliaments and Provincial Legislatures Act 4 of 2004
Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Amendment Act 9 of 2019
The Powers and Privileges Committee dismissed an application by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Referral of Speaker of the National Assembly to the Committee for Contempt of Parliament; Committee Matters
17 Nov 2023
The Powers and Privileges Committee met on the virtual platform. Minutes of a previous meeting were considered and adopted. It was confirmed that the hearing of the matter involving Mr M Zwane (ANC), a Member of Parliament, would proceed the next week.
The hearing into the incident of the ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Consideration of Request to subpoena NA Speaker as a witness
20 Oct 2023
The Committee met virtually to consider and deliberate on whether the Speaker of the National Assembly should be summoned or subpoenaed to appear before the Committee for the hearing regarding the incident that occurred on 30 August 2022. Briefing the Committee, Parliamentary Legal Services said the EFF legal counsel, ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development BRRR; Progress on Preparations for Provincial Public Hearings
18 Oct 2023
2023 Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR)
The Committee met in a virtual meeting to consider the 2023 Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) of the Department of Small Business Development and its entities.
Members focused on the observations and recommendations sections in the report and made a number ...
Small Business Development
DSBD, SEFA & SEDA 2022/23 Annual Reports; with Minister
11 Oct 2023
Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee was briefed by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA), the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) and its two entities, the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) and the Small ...
Small Business Development
DSBD Portfolio Audit Outcomes
10 Oct 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Auditor-General of South Africa briefed the Committee on the audit findings of the Department of Small Business Development, the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) and the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) for the 2022/2023 period. Overall outcomes for portfolio regressed from previous year –two ...
Small Business Development
National Small Enterprise Development Bill concept document & public hearings programme
5 Oct 2023
The Committee convened to consider and adopt the draft programme of the public hearings on the National Small Enterprise Amendment Bill. The programme was adopted, with the Democratic Alliance (DA) voting against it.
Members mentioned the need to make sacrifices such as working over weekends, right through until the ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Postponed: Hearing on the incident of 30 August 2022 due to recusal of initiator
27 Sep 2023
The initiator tasked with leading the charge against three EFF MPs who disrupted a parliamentary sitting with President Cyril Ramaphosa, recused himself from the proceedings, citing a bias perception. Adv Norman Arendse, SC, was appointed in June to lead Parliament's charge against EFF MPs Nazier Paulsen, Khanya Ceza, Ntombovuyo ...