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Companies Regulations and Rectification of the Companies Act - Call for Public Inputs

Members of the public are invited to submit inputs and comments regarding the Rectification Notice and Companies Regulations. Read more

Consumer Protection Act

The Consumer Protection Act, No. 68 of 2008 was signed into law on 24 April 2009. The aim of the Act is to make markets work better for consumers by ensuring that consumers:
  • are able to make well informed buying decisions;
  • are able to access a wide range of products and services based on honest and fair marketing and selling practices;
  • have access to efficient and effective redress;
  • are educated about their rights and responsibilities.
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President Zuma appoints members of B-BBEE Advisory Council

President Jacob Zuma has appointed members of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Council, in terms of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Council Act no 53 of 2003. Read more

NEPAD-OECD Ministerial Meeting & Expert Roundtable, 11-12 November 2009

African ministers and business leaders met at the Southern Sun O.R. Tambo International Airport Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa on 11-12 November 2009 to discuss how African countries can exit the financial crisis and build stronger and more sustainable economies. View Presentations

Revised Black Business Supplier Development Programme Guidelines

The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) has effected revisions to the current Black Business Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP). Minister Rob Davies (MP) approved the revised guidelines on 12 June 2009, prompting the need to step-up measures to enhance the competitiveness of local, black-owned Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Read more

the dti Publishes Revised Enterprise Investment Programme (EIP) Guidelines

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies (MP), has approved the revised guidelines pertaining to the Enterprise Investment Programme (EIP) and its sub-programmes, the Manufacturing Investment Programme (MIP) and Tourism Support Programme (TSP). Read more

Revised Draft Guidelines for the Enterprise Investment Programme and Funding Gap Methodology

The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti), revised its Guidelines for the Enterprise Investment Programme (EIP), with its sub-programme the Manufacturing Investment Programme (MIP) and Tourism Support Programme (TSP), as well as the Funding Gap Methodology. Read more.

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Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies appoints Lotteries Board
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies is pleased to announce the appointment of the new Chairperson and members of National Lotteries Board for a period of five years with effect from 2 December 2009 to 30 November 2014. The term of the current board of the National Lotteries Board as chaired by Mr. Joe Foster came to an end on 2 December 2009. Read more
 
Developed countries should coordinate programmes aimed at capacitating both developed and developing countries
Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies, says in responding to the global economic crises, governments should at all times strive to avoid the risk of unfairly placing the burden of the downturn on the poor and vulnerable who did nothing to cause the crisis in the first place. He was speaking at the 13th General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO), held today in Vienna. Read more
 
Statement By Dr. Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry 13th General Conference of The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Trade and Industry Minister, Dr. Rob Davies, says South Africa is firmly of the view that industrial development must be at the centre of efforts to overcome poverty and underdevelopment. He was speaking at the 13th General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO), held in Vienna. He added that for too long, African economic activity has been dominated by the production of primary products susceptible to commodity cycles. Read more
 
South Africa’s Statement to the Seventh Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Geneva, delivered by Dr Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry
Minister Davies says South Africa fully supports the position of the G20 and Africa Group amongst others in calling for an “early and successful conclusion” to the Doha Round, with successful being defined in terms of its delivery on the Doha development mandate. He was speaking at the Seventh Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference held in Geneva. Read more
 
Administration of Russian GSP System in SA Transferred to SARS
The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) would like to inform all exporters and their agents that the authorisation of Certificates of Origin (Form A) under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) of Russia has been transferred from the dti to the South African Revenue Services (Customs) as from yesterday, 1 December 2009. Read more
 
   


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