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Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on programme review and proposals
9 Mar 2016
Documents awaited: Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on programme review and proposals [email info@pmg.org.za]
The CEO reported on the survey conducted by sefa on its products' review. The information was gathered from 13 key informants, interviews with sefa Exco and board members, National Treasury, Seda and IDC (Industrial Development Corporation). More ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development programme review: briefing by Minister, Deputy Minister & Director General
24 Feb 2016
The Minister, Deputy Minister and Director General presented the Programme Review of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). The Review’s diagnostic stage looked at DSBD’s operating environment, internal structures and the programmes themselves. The design stage involved developing strategic recommendations on the optimal portfolio mix to deliver the department’s ...
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Department of Small Business Development on its 2015/16 2nd/3rd Quarter performance, with Minister
17 Feb 2016
The Director General of the Department of Small Business Development presented its quarterly reports for the second and third quarters of operations. These reports highlighted areas of success and shortfall, in the latter case notably of expenditure in the areas of staff vacancies and proper allocation of funding to small ...
Small Business Development
Programme review and proposals: Department of Small Business Development briefing; Oversight and workshop report adoption, in presence of Deputy Minister
18 Nov 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (the Department) was expected to present a review of its programmes and to give proposals to the Committee. The Chairperson expressed extreme concern when it became apparent that the final internal review was not ready and that instead the consultancy firm had been asked ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development & Small Enterprise Development Agency on 2nd Quarter 2015/16 performance
11 Nov 2015
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented its second quarter performance report, informing the Portfolio Committee that it had achieved 17 (54.8%) of its 26 performance indicators, and 14 (45.2%) of the 31 milestones. All of the invoices received had been paid within 30 days. Five agricultural cooperative projects ...
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Procurement Policies to create market access for Small Business & Cooperatives: Spar briefing
4 Nov 2015
The Committee was engaged in hearing from a number of retail organisations on their procurement policies and how they assisted in opening up markets for small businesses. Spar Group briefed the Committee, noting that Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932, and started in South Africa in 1963. The ...
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Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
28 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Committee commenced by going through the responses from Ms Lindiwe Zulu Minister of Small Business Development, to which Members did not comment. The Chairperson tabled the document and the Committee considered the report page by page. Mr R Chance (DA) noted a ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
21 Oct 2015
The Committee met for the second consideration of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The report was reviewed and several recommendations, explanations and amendments were proposed. The Chairperson agreed to review the input and edit the document according to the submissions. The BRRR was not approved and another meeting ...
Small Business Development
Small Business Development Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
The Content Advisor to the Portfolio Committee of Small Business presented the draft of the Budget Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR). He said the BRRR entailed all the issues discussed, deliberated and recommended by the Committee, and most of these had been about financing and the working of the administration. ...
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Small Enterprise Finance Agency and Small Enterprise Development Agency on their Strategies & Annual Performance Reports
15 Oct 2015
Entities of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) presented their annual performance reports. Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) discussed the conversion of the loan, to equity. In this year, sefa approved R1 billion, and disbursed over R1.3 billion to small, micro and medium (SMMEs) enterprises. Sefa had assisted over ...