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Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its Quarter 3 performance
22 Mar 2017
The Department highlighted to the Committee that in the third quarter, programme 1 performed well achieving 78.6% or 11 of its 14 planned quarterly targets; and has spent 59.9% of its budget by 31 December 2016. With programme 2, it achieved 90% of its 10 quarterly targets. The policy and ...
Small Business Development
Community Economic Development model through cooperatives development; oversight visit to KZN
8 Mar 2017
The draft report on the Committee’s oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) was presented for consideration, and all the Members agreed that it was an accurate record of the visit. Some words and phrases were changed for the document to be consistent with the content of the visit. It had been ...
Finance Standing Committee
Committee Report on Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals
7 Mar 2017
The Standing Committee on Finance (SCOF) discussed the report of the standing committee on finance on the 2017 fiscal framework and revenue proposals. The DA had submitted certain comments and proposed amendments regarding the report which were appended to the report on pages 18 and 19. These points were discussed ...
Small Business Development
Developmental status of all Cooperatives funded by Department: Department of Small Business Development briefing
1 Mar 2017
The Department said it could not brief the Committee on the subject matter due to inadequate capacity to collect the information from the cooperatives. Therefore, it proposed to be given time to come back to the Committee with the full report on the 400 cooperatives that it funded since its ...
Small Business Development
Socio-Economic Impact Assesment System: Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation briefing
22 Feb 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation informed the Committee that the National Development Plan, Medium Term Strategic Framework and Outcome 4 priorities included a reduction in the burden placed on inclusive growth resulting from unintended consequences of government actions as well as inefficient and/or inappropriate regulations. There was a need ...
Small Business Development
Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill: Department Response; Process of establishing the National Small Business Council: update
15 Feb 2017
The Department of Small Business Development briefed the Committee on its perspective on the Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill.
Red tape continues to be a challenge in South Africa even in business registration. It takes 43 days in SA to register a business, even though the country has moved from ...
Small Business Development
Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill: briefing
8 Feb 2017
Prior to a briefing on the Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill by the MP who had intoduced it, the Committee was briefed on the process to be followed in the tabling of a Private Member’s Bill, as well as the steps that the Committee would take moving forward with the ...
Small Business Development
Programmes Review Project implementation: progress report by Department of Small Business Development
23 Nov 2016
Documents handed out:
Progress on the implementation of the Programmes Review Project [awaited]
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Committee on its progress with the implementation of the programmes review project, and indicated that it had had to undertake a restructuring process to ensure that it focused ...
Small Business Development
Development Finance Institution (DFI) workshop report; Committee Reports on Oversight Visits to KZN & Limpopo
16 Nov 2016
Documents handed out:
Committee Reports on Oversight Visits to Limpopo
Committee Reports on Oversight Visits to KZN
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Committee’s review of the report on the Development Finance Institution (DFI) workshop turned into a session of soul-searching over the reasons for ...
Small Business Development
Procurement policies that support Social Responsibility Implementation report: Cell C & Boniswa Technology Solutions briefing
11 Nov 2016
Cell C presented its economic policies towards SMMEs and Cooperatives. Cell C was busy with a re-capitalisation of it’s business which will result in shareholder change, the majority of ownership will be in South Africa, and the black ownership will increase from 25% to 30%. Cell C spent over R550 ...