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Small Business Development
Vedanta Mining on elbowing of small enterprises by big companies; National Business Advisory Council appointment: update
23 Aug 2017
A dispute between Vedanta Zinc International, a large mining corporation, and two small construction firms -- 3C Projects and ChadCon -- formed the basis of the proceedings. The issues related to the scaling down of a housing project for a mining operation in the Northern Cape, allegations of sub-standard work ...
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Chad Construction; 3C Projects; Vedanta Mining- Black Mountain Mining (Pty) Ltd; Inyanda Chambers of Business; Screamer Telecoms-Molapo Technology, Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA)
28 Jun 2017
The Committee received briefings from various constituencies around their problems in how they are operating their small businesses against big companies.
Molapo Technology was liquidated late last year and merged with Screamer Electronic Services; Molapo Technology owned 62% of the shares. Molapo Technology had been operational for fifteen years ...
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Department of Small Business Development on its Quarter 4 performance
21 Jun 2017
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) and its agencies, the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) and the Small Business Finance Agency (Sefa), came before the Committee to present their fourth quarter performance reports. The DSBD focused its presentation on the performance indicators and targets achieved in the fourth quarter, ...
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400 cooperatives supported since inception: DSBD progress report & intervention plan
14 Jun 2017
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented a report on the assessment of the Cooperatives Incentives Scheme (CIS), which had adopted an approach premised on the training of cooperatives and market access. The CIS supported 400 cooperatives to the tune of R124.7 million. The Department described the processes involved ...
Small Business Development
Minister of Small Business Development on Department Written Responses required by Committee
7 Jun 2017
The Minister of the Department of Small Business Development appeared before the Committee to respond to criticisms of poor performance by her Department.
The Minister expressed her apologies for her non-attendance at meetings of the Committee in the past, and said that she never intended to disrespect the Members as ...
Small Business Development
Abalimi Cooperatives progress report by Department of Small Business Development
31 May 2017
The Abalimi Cooperatives project is a pilot project of 12 agricultural cooperatives in KwaZulu-Natal, an initiative which will guide the future model of cooperatives in South Africa to develop communities with the aim of uplifting them from poverty.
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) outlined the tasks it had ...
Small Business Development
400 cooperatives supported since inception: DSBD progress report & intervention plan
24 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development expressed its disappointment and strong rejection of a progress report on the development status of 400 cooperatives funded by the Department since its inception and the intervention plan to address challenges identified. The report noted the 88% failure rate of cooperatives, and since ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Mpumalanga Oversight
17 May 2017
The Committee commended the drafting of the report by the Content Advisor in terms of its details. The report called upon the Director-General to report to the Committee by the end of May on the status of the cooperatives and that this was imperative since the Director-General had declined to ...
Small Business Development
Committee Report on Department of Small Business Development Budget; Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill: consideration
10 May 2017
Document handed out: Committee Report on Department of Small Business Development Budget [available once published Tabled Committee Reports]
The Committee convened to consider its report on the Department of Small Business Development’s (DSBD’s) Budget Vote for 2017/18, and the implications of proceeding with the Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill.
The ...
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Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill consideration of submissions; Alignment of Cooperatives Model with support services briefing
23 Mar 2017
Alignment of Cooperatives Model with support services
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on the progress made in terms of the remedial action plan presented to the Committee on 7 December 2016 and to report on aligning support services to the model of developing the Abalimi ...