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Free State Gambling, Liquor and Tourism Authority (FSGLA)

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The mission of the Free State Gambling, Liquor and Tourism Authority is to promote legally compliant, responsible, sustainable and transformed gaming and liquor industries through effective licensing, regulating and reporting on the activities of the industries, and to market and promote the Free State province as a tourist destination of choice.

The Entity’s strategic objectives are: to ensure the effective and efficient marketing of tourism, promotion of tourism and development of sustainable tourism within the province; an effective tourism marketing and promotion strategy; marketing initiatives adequately covering provincial geographic spread and seasonality; effective utilisation of media platforms; and hosting of events to promote the Free State province as a tourist destination of choice.

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Technology Innovation Agency (TIA)

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TIA is a national public entity that serves as the key institutional intervention to bridge the innovation chasm between research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities, and private sector, and commercialisation.

TIA’s focus is on technology development; from proof of concept to pre commercialisation. To achieve this, TIA established the following funds: the Seed Fund, the Technology Development Fund, and the Commercialisation Support Fund.

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Department of Economic, Small Business Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs: Free State Province (DESTEA)

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DESTEA’s mission as a leading developmental institution is to drive environmentally sustainable economic growth and transformation for the benefit of the Free State province and its citizens through: the creation of a conducive environment for trade and investment, including the establishment of a progressive policy framework to promote wealth creation and equitable wealth distribution for economic transformation; preservation and sustainable use of natural resources; and being a capable, ethical and responsive organisation.

The department’s constitutional mandates require it to oversee and administer the following: trade; tourism; casinos, racing, gambling and wagering, excluding lotteries and sports pools; consumer protection; environment; industrial promotion; nature conservation; pollution control; provincial public enterprises; soil conservation; and liquor licenses and control of undertakings that sell liquor to the public.

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Institute of Environmental and Recreation Management (IERM)

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The Institute of Environment and Recreation Management (IERM) was established in 1936 to allow networking opportunities for municipal managers who are responsible for the management of public parks, open space and recreation facilities.

The IERM aims to be the leading public-sector organisation promoting sustainable and integrated environmental and recreation management practices in South Africa.

The organisation is a non-profit, common-law association owned and governed by the municipalities who are its members.

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Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority (PSETA)

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PERSETA oversee the provision of quality public service education and training that meets the current and future needs of all their stakeholders namely that are in the business of government namely government departments like DIRCO, Home Affairs, parliament, provincial legislatures, transversal skills across other government departments, public entities and parastatals.

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Business for South Africa (BSA)

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Business for South Africa (B4SA) is an alliance of South African business leaders working with the South African government, and other social partners, to step up, lead and help create and deliver sustainable solutions for South Africa. B4SA’s objective is to mobilise business resources and capacity to work alongside and in support of government to address bottlenecks impacting economic growth and social development in South Africa.

Government and B4SA are focusing on sectors of the economy that require urgent intervention; B4SA has formed a collective of business expertise and resources in an effort to mobilise teams to help revitalise important economic imperatives. B4SA aims to be part of the solution to the national economic crisis, and to ensure regular and informative stakeholder engagement and feedback.

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Public Health and Social Development Sectoral Bargaining Council (PHSDSBC)

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The PHSDSBC is a bargaining council, which was established in 1999, and services employees within the public health and social development sectors. Our mission is to promote labour peace in the public health and social development sectors of South Africa by engaging in constructive collective bargaining regarding issues of mutual interests to all the parties to the Council; and
Facilitating dispute prevention measures to pre-empt the occurrence of disputes within the sector and the resolution of all sector-wide labour disputes speedily and to the satisfaction of all parties involved.
This bargaining council is a registered government bargaining council.

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State Diamond Trader (SDT)

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The State Diamond Trader is a state-owned entity established in terms of Section 14 of the Diamonds Act 56, 1986, as amended (“the Act”). It operates in the diamond industry with the aim to grow local diamond beneficiation.

The mandate of the State Diamond Trader is to buy and sell rough diamonds and to promote equitable access to and beneficiation of the country’s diamond resources. The entity strives to address distortions created by the country’s historical exclusion of certain population groups from economic participation. It aims to grow South Africa’s diamond cutting and polishing industry by enabling and increasing participation of Historically Disadvantaged South Africans (HDSAs) in the diamond beneficiation industry. The entity is empowered by law to purchase up to 10% of the run-of-mine (ROM) production from all diamond producers in South Africa. It sells to registered customers through an application and approval process.

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National Consumer Commission (NCC)

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The National Consumer Commission (NCC) is the primary regulator of consumer-business interaction in South Africand was created by government under the auspices of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), to ensure economic welfare of consumers. Consumers play a vital role in the growth of the economy and thus contribute to the national fiscus and the development of the country.

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