SMD

Annual Report 2023/2024

Eastern Cape Amathole Govan Mbeki Rural 1 1 Total 321 585

attendees

Number of

Eastern Cape Amathole Mbashe Rural 68 68

KwaZulu-Natal Ilembe Ndwedwe Rural 13 13

Limpopo Mopani Ba-Phalaborwa Rural 13 34

Limpopo Sekhukhune Ephraim Mogale Rural 20 40 Limpopo Sekhukhune Fetakgomo Rural 9 21 Limpopo Sekhukhune Elias Motsoaledi Rural 39 67 Limpopo Capricorn Molemole Rural 9 37

Limpopo Waterberg Thabazimbi Rural 9 33

Limpopo Sekhukhune Makhuduthamaga Rural 81 184

Rural/urban Number of

Co-operatives

Matters raised by the Portfolio Committee Department’s response Financial year 2021/22:

Local

municipality

Financial support- CDSP The target for supporting co-operatives to the value of R88,6 million could not be achieved. Only R13,02 million was disbursed and R66,60 million transferred to sefa for Co-operatives Development Support Programme (CDSP) programme implementation. A request was made for the remaining R8,98 million to be transferred to other programmes within the Department.

The nature of support provided to the Co-operatives during the 2022/23 financial year was on training and workshops. The below table further provides the location of those Co-operatives that receive training and workshops: Province District municipality

A total amount of R13,02 million was disbursed in support of forty (40) primary co-operatives. It is to be noted, however, that from the forty (40) primary co-operatives supported, % Eleven (11) “new” co-operatives were funded to the value of R5,53 million. % The remaining twenty-nine (29) were additional payments of R7,49 million to co-operatives that have already been reported on in previous reporting period(s). Financial year 2022/23

Furthermore, while in 2021/22 financial year the target was to support Co-operatives to the value of R89 million, where the Department managed to provide support to the value of R13 million or 15 percent of the planned target, the target in the year under review is on the

number of enterprises rather than value of support. The Department’s target was to support 200 co-operatives

financially and/or non-financially. Instead, it supported 321 co-operatives, exceeding its target by 121. However, It also has no way of monitoring the effectiveness of the Department’s Cooperatives Development the Committee has no idea what kind of assistance was provided to the co-operatives or where they are located.

Support Programme (CDSP), the Department’s flagship programme designed to assist Co-operative enterprises.

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