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Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni under scrutiny
By Mayibongwe Maqhina
MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA
Politics: Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has come under scrutiny for bunking meetings of the portfolio committee playing oversight over her Department of Small Business Development before the unrest.
Yesterday, opposition parties took a swipe at Ntshavheni who has been acting in the ministerial position previously occupied by the late minister Jackson Mthembu.
Ntshavheni was conspicuously absent when the MPs serving on the small business development committee met to plan for an oversight visit to the two provinces.
Neither her deputy Rosemary Cape nor director-general Lindokuhle Mkhumane was in attendance to brief the committee on the department’s intervention in the wake of the unrest.
24 February 2021 - 11:30am
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday, 25 February 2021, address a webinar on Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) and Cooperatives supported by the Department of Small Business Development.
The webinar discussion will be guided by the theme, “Open Engagement with a View to Rebuild an Even Stronger Economy”.
The event will be hosted by the Department of Small Business Development together with its agencies, the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) and Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa).
During the early stages of the national lockdown implemented as part of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department set aside funds to assist SMMEs and cooperatives that were affected by COVID-19 restrictions and disruption to normal business.