People's Assembly

August, Mr SN question

Who owns the legal right to operate a Braai Café and post National Youth Development Agency business and financial support; (2) what total amount of taxpayers’ money in its entirety was funnelled to the Braai Café business model; (3) whether external service providers were contracted for the implementation period; if so, (a)(i) who are the service providers and (ii) what services were they contracted for, (b) what was the contractual period for services rendered and (c) what were the payment terms linked to the service agreements?”

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The DSBD is the custodian of the Braai Café in partnership with the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) as the implementation agency through a Memorandum of Understanding.
The DSBD budgeted funds totalling R8 400, 000.00 through the Cooperatives Incentives Scheme (CIS) to roll out the programme. A total of R1 800 000.00 was advanced to the NYDA. Of the advanced amount, R514 175.90 was spent and R1 285 824.10 was returned to DSBD and paid back to the National Treasury at the end of the 2020/21 Financial year as per Treasury Regulations.
YOU TURN - Consultant services and TABBS Group, as outlined in the budget breakdown below, are the service providers that were contracted by the NYDA. Payment terms were linked to the following key deliverables: project inception, store roll-out, and post implementation support as stipulated in the agreement. The payment services are also outlined in the table below.


Date	Amount Paid	Items paid/allocated for:
27/03/2018	R865,000.00	Amount approved by NYDA
20/04/2018	R240,000.00	TABBS GROUP - Technical support
	R50,000.00	TABBS GROUP - Business Plans
	R50,000.00	TABBS GROUP - Roll-out Delft store
	R13,168.31	Rental deposit - Delft
	R2,698.00	Game/Dion -
	R355,866.31	Total payments by NYDA
		SBD Investment - equipment
		SBD Investment - consultant services
20/04/2018	R509,133.69	Balance (NYDA approval)
30/04/2018	R8,400,000.00	Funds from DSBD
	R6,600,000.00	Adjustment of funds from DSBD
	R1,800,000.00	Balance of funds from DSBD
Nov-19	R13,168.31	Rental refund
Nov-19	R522,302.00	Balance (NYDA approval)
07/11/2019	R345,000.00	YOU TURN - Consultant services
18/03/2020	R7,547.00	Point of sale system
	R12,000.00	Architect
	R5,439.04	Uniforms
	R21,046.80	Health safety and hygiene
	R391,032.84	Total payments
21/08/2020	R6,184.16	Security
	R27,645.00	Building improvements
	R25,673.90	Kitchen utilities
	R2,737.00	Additional kitchen equipment (grease trap)
	R17,297.50	Kitchen equipment (Gas) & installation
	R41,805.50	Scooters
	R1,800.00	Working capital
	R123,143.06	Total payments
21/08/2020	R1 285 824.10	Balance from DSBD funds

MS STELLA NDABENI-ABRAHAMS, MP

MINISTER OF SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

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