Local economic development

Draft PPPFA regulation disgust (discussed and cussed)

Leave a Comment / Government procurement and BEE, Local economic development, PPPFA, Preferential Procurement, zoomer, zoomoron, zumachine Gun, Zungurisation /

In his 2015 state of the nation giggle session our very competent, intelligent and decisive president made the following announcement. Government will set-aside 30% of appropriate categories of State procurement for purchasing from SMMEs, co-operatives as well as township and rural enterprises. We are quite used to this esteemed personage's platitudes and incredible decisiveness so it […]

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More grants than jobs – lifted content

Leave a Comment / Job creation, Local economic development /

I don't like lifting stories wholesale but this is a very important story.  I've editied down a bit.  It comes from the Business Report. South Africa has more people receiving money from social grants than there are people with jobs, according to Mike Schussler, the chief executive of Economists.co.za.  There were 13.8 million grant recipients

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PPPs and BEE

Leave a Comment / B-BBEE Act, Broad Based BEE and the economy, Caird, Local economic development, PPP, PPPFA, Preferential Procurement, Public-Private Partnerships, Transaction Advisor, Treasury /

Public Private Partnerships are without doubt the most effective tool that the government has to achieve its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), RDP and other empowerment related goals. Yet this method of procurement is not making the most of these opportunities. The problem seems to be that the transaction advisors that are used in the early

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