Question NW10 to the Minister of Small Business Development

Reply:

(1)(a)(i)(aa) Primaryco-operatives have been funded by the Department of Small Business Development

CO-OPERATIVE INCENTIVE SCHEME
DEPARTMENT	YEAR	NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS APPROVED	VALUE OF APPLICATIONS APPROVED	ESTIMATED NO OF JOB CREATED	VALUE OF DISBURSEMENT
Small Business Development	2014-15	207	R 56 103 695	1359	R 64 965 564
Small Business Development	2015-16	247	R 84 423 016	1872	R 75 000 000
Small Business Development	2016-YTD	172	R52 891 797.54	1115	R 47 214 253.97
Total A	626	R 193 418 508.54	3603	R 187 179 817.97

Table 1 – CIS under DSBD

Breakdown of funded primary cooperatives under DSBD

Link for Table 2.1 below depicts DSBD CIS programme data for the 2014/15 Financial Year

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Link for Table 2.2 below depicts DSBD CIS programme data for the 2015/16 Financial Year (Primary Co-operatives)

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Link for Table 2.3 below depicts DSBD CIS programme data for the period April 2016 to date

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(1)(a)(ii)(aa) Secondary co-operatives have been funded by the Department of Small Business Development

There was only one secondary co-operative supported, information is provided in the table below:

Table 3

TOTAL NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES 2015/16 (SECONDARY MARKETING)
Province	No. of Approved Projects	Approved Amount	% Per Province	Total Supported	Total
Limpopo	1	R7,648,690.00	100	1	R7,648,690.00

 

(1)(a)(i)(bb) Primaryco-operatives have been funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti)

Table 4 below depicts thedti CIS programme data for primary co-operatives:

CO-OPERATIVE INCENTIVE SCHEME
Department	YEAR	NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS APPROVED	VALUE OF APPLICATIONS APPROVED	ESTIMATED NO OF JOB CREATED	VALUE OF DISBURSEMENT
Trade and Industry	2008/09	93	R 14 634 075	744	R 9 330 000
Trade and Industry	2009/10	224	R 47 345 447	1792	R 34 523 371
Trade and Industry	2010/11	235	R 55 228 903	1880	R 44 170 626
Trade and Industry	2011/12	182	R 47 824 520	1456	R 52 555 674
Trade and Industry	2012/13	314	R 85 323 599	2512	R 64 979 000
Trade and Industry	2013/14	243	R 62 331 729	1944	R 75 479 830
Total (B)	1291	R 312 688 273	10328	R 281 038 501

(1)(a)(ii)(bb) Secondary co-operatives have been funded by the Department of Trade and Industry

No secondary co-operatives were funded by the Department of Trade and Industry

Table 5: Grand Total

Department	Number of approved projects	Value approved	Estimated no. of jobs supported	Disbursements
Small Business Development	626	R 193 418 508	3603	R 187 179 818
Trade and Industry	1291	R 312 688 273	10328	R 281 038 501
Grand Total	1917	R 506 106 782	13 931	R 468 218 319

2. Specified co-operatives still operating

Not all the funded projects have been visited after implementation of the interventions. Post investment support is done on a sampling basis.

Link to Table 5 below depicts CIS post investment verification for the financial years 2013/14 and 2014/15

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NB: There are still 165 fully paid projects that are in the process of being monitored.

It should be noted that the function of monitoring was done by the monitoring and evaluation Chief Directorate under the dti when the CIS Unit was still part of the department. Therefore, due to capacity constraints, only one hundred and eighteen projects were visited post disbursement and plans are afoot to remedy the situation into the future.

The CIS Unit and Seda are currently piloting a working relationship whereby all new applications will be received through Seda branches and as well as conducting post disbursements visits to all funded cooperatives. The CIS unit has not been able to fully perform this function after being migrated from the dti to the DSBD. Post investment support was conducted through a chief directorate unit focusing on Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) while the CIS Unit was still at the dti. the dti was able to publish two M & E reports for financial years 2013/14 and 2014/15. Since migration no full M& E has been conducted to date.