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Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its 2014/15 Annual Report; Auditor-General & DPME inputs
14 Oct 2015
[Missing doc: Department of Small Business Development 2014/15 Annual Report email info@pmg.org.za]
The Chairperson noted the presence of the Deputy Minister and welcomed the new Director General of the Department of Small Business Development (the Department). The Auditor-General South Africa briefed the Portfolio Committee on the performance of the new ...
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Consideration of Committee Minutes
23 Sep 2015
The Committee met briefly to adopt the outstanding minutes of six previous meetings. The matters were reviewed swiftly with minimal dissent, approved and adopted. Consideration of the Oversight Report was postponed for the next meeting due to the absence of some Committee Members.
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Department of Small Business Development 1st Quarter 2015/16 performance
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on its first quarter performance for 2015/16 financial year.
Regarding the budget allocation of R1.1 billion for enterprise development, the Department had spent about R220 million so far -- an under-expenditure of R90 million. This had been due to the ...
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Pick n Pay on Access to Retail Industry Market by Small Business
2 Sep 2015
The Committee Chairperson announced that the meeting was attended by delegations from Pick n Pay as a large retailer, an individual small entrepreneur, the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA), Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) and the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD), and the purpose of the meeting was to ...
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Committee minutes: adoption
18 Aug 2015
The Committee went over the backlog of minutes that needed to be adopted from the last three months of Committee meetings. This backlog was due to the large number of lengthy presentations to the Committee in this time. The Committee also discussed its approach to editing and adopting minutes in ...
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Local Procurement: Department of Defence plans; Departments of Transport, Energy & Telecommunications progress on transversal agreements
12 Aug 2015
The Department of Defence (DoD), the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) met with the Committee to discuss and report back on progress with their plans for local procurement from Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives.
The Department of Defence stated ...
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Workshop for Small Business Development: Day 3
22 Jul 2015
In the third day of the workshop on Small Business development, the Committee continued to hear from a number of presenters highlighting challenges currently experienced by Small Micro and Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) and cooperatives, and what the development finance institutions (DFIs) were doing to assist.
The Department of Trade and ...
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Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development Oversight Report
24 Jun 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development considered and adopted the minutes of meetings held on 14, 15 and 22 April 2015.
The Committee unanimously adopted the minutes with amendments. The Committee noted an objection raised on reference to the Freedom Charter in the minutes of 14 April.
The following ...
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SMMEs challenges with non-financial support services, with Kings of Midlands as a case study
17 Jun 2015
The King of Midlands cooperative of taxi owners in Pietermaritzburg includes community development initiatives and a business model that aims to include a petrol station, tyre fitment centre, spares shop and cooperative bank. They had bought 26 taxis for their members on their own by putting their savings together and ...
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Retail Industry on Access to Market & Value Chain for SMMEs & Cooperatives (Massmart and Tiger Brand); Integrated approach on implementation of National School Nutrition Programme as a set-aside for SMMEs & Cooperatives
10 Jun 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development invited the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform, the Portfolio Committee on Social Development and the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education to a briefing by the retail industry on access to the market and ...