Chairperson, may I ask hon Londt because the question that he has of red tape I have answered all the issues when we were dealing with the other issues but I can repeat what we have said.
The first part is that we are reviewing and consolidating legislation that impacts on small, macro and medium enterprises, SMMEs, we want to see how does that legislation impacts SMMEs and we are allowed to gazette and publish that to say, this legislation
impacts on SMMEs in a cumbersome manner and those that require review we will propose to review in consultation with the custodian departments.
We are also wanting to enhance the Social Impact Assessments, SIAs process, the social impact assessment that is being done by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation to include an impact assessment on SMMEs for all regulations including legislation and policies that goes to Cabinet as part of enhancing that and we do not want to remove it from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, we want the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation to continue.
We have started to negotiate and we are advocating with municipalities, the SA Local Government Association, Salga, in particular, we are dealing with them at an association ... to standardise certain bylaws so you can remove the burden that the bylaw presents but also have uniformity or flow on things applicable across all municipalities so that you give certainties not only to the SMMEs but also to investors into the country and the engagements are progressing very well.
I have earlier spoken about the common application template that we have introduced that I will launch this Thursday which the SMMEs will use to apply for funding across the Small Enterprise Finance Agency, Sefa, the Small Enterprise Development Agency, Seda, the National Empowerment Fund, NEF, as a start. The Industrial Development Corporation, IDC are doing their due diligence but the Land Bank also wants to come on board and also the packages that are offered by the Department of Tourism, they also want to come on board. I have just mentioned the part of the national SMME database and I have just articulated it earlier on what should happen when that database comes, how it will make it easier for SMMEs to get services across government because we want that database to be a one-stop platform for SMMEs to access government services across ... and it may not start at the right level but we will gradually build it to the right level, we are doing it in partnership with Eskom.
In the previous reply I have dealt with the mechanisms we are doing with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition on measures on easing burdens of doing business in the country that will also be beneficial to the SMMEs. Thank you.