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16 May 2018
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Budget Speech
Media briefing
... experiencing drought, and this has resulted in government declaring a national state of drought disaster ... when agriculture was not performing because of drought, GDP slowed down, leading to the negative growth ...
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11 Feb 2009
Budget Speech 2009 and Documents
Media briefing
... beans and other vegetables, and except for drastic drought years, we would never go hungry. The subsistence ...
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27 Nov 2019
Pan South African Language Board & Iziko Museum 2018/19 Annual Report
Committee Meeting | NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture | National Council of Provinces
... whether the Council could consider helping with the drought in the Eastern Cape, because she had seen a promotion ...
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19 Mar 2019
SANDF Deployment to Vaal River System: DWS & SANDF briefing; Rand, Sedibeng, Bloem Water Boards 2017/18 Annual Report; Tembisa and Ekurhukeni petitions, with Minister and Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... national level. Other challenges were ongoing drought and the siltation of the Welbedacht Dam on the ...
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16 Oct 2019
Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development Budgetary Review & Recommendations Report
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... the problems with a drought relief fund was that an area has to be declared drought affected first and ... and recently KwaZulu-Natal spent R202 million on drought relief. The recommendations should simply reflect ...
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30 Jul 2019
Department of Local Government 2019/20 Annual Performance Plan; with MEC
Committee Meeting | Local Government (WCPP) | Western Cape
... is developing a 15-year Western Cape Integrated Drought and Water Response Plan (WCIDWRP). The aim of WCIDWRP ... coordinated provincial response to the impact of the drought. The WCIDWRP is also meant to provide identification ...
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31 Jul 2019
Department of Health 2019/20 Annual Performance Plan; with MEC
Committee Meeting | Health (WCPP) | Western Cape
... Climate change had posed a problem, in which the drought-induced “Day Zero,” increasing wild fires and energy ...
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22 Nov 2019
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates; Resolutions/Actions
Committee Meeting | Budget (WCPP) | Western Cape
... province, particularly when it came to a severe drought. As things stood, additional funding was not being ... government to allocate those monies to the severe drought, which was currently taking place in the province ...
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26 Nov 2019
Griqua People’s Heritage submission: Representative of Griqua People’s Heritage & NC Department of Education; DBE briefing: 2020 school readiness
Committee Meeting | Basic Education | National Assembly
... problem of water shortages at schools situated in drought-prone provinces; and if it had formalised the Comprehensive ...
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18 Feb 2020
Department response to SONA, Presidential Stimulus Package & district-based model for service delivery, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... projects. Ms A Steyn (DA) was concerned about the drought resistance seed mentioned in the President’s SONA ... recognised. The Department also notes the impact of the drought resistance seeds. The Department is trying its ...
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09 Oct 2020
Mpumalanga Human Settlements and Water & Sanitation Plan; Wastewater Treatment Plan; Water Boards; District Model; with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... Situational analysis, -Water Service Development Plan, -Drought status in the province, -COVID-19 interventions ... areas such as Bushbuckridge there are issues of drought for some time and the Department was using ground ...
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23 Oct 2020
Northern Cape and Gauteng Provincial Education Departments on Status and Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Schooling; with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Basic Education | National Assembly
... were boreholes, but the province was hit hard by drought, and some of the boreholes became dry, which meant ...
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12 Sep 2011
International Cooperation, Trade and Security Cluster Briefing
Media briefing
... following an extended period of over six months of drought in the region. Half of the Somali population, 3 ... situation of the country which, in addition to the drought, has resulted in food shortages. Heeding to a clarion ...
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23 Jul 2020
Minister of Environment, Forestry & Fisheries Budget Speech, response by IFP, DA & FF+
Media briefing
... addressing drought concludes its work, we will have a solution, or guidance, on how to tackle drought issues ... addressing drought concludes its work, we will have a solution, or guidance, on how to tackle drought issues ...
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08 Jul 2020
2020 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: briefing
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... experience a sovereign debt crisis. Treasury noted that drought relief funds had been released and Free State and ... concerns about the little funding provided for drought relief and expressed surprise that Free State and ...
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16 Jul 2020
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: hearing with Department of Water and Sanitation
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... Southern Cape (in Knysna and Sedgefield). During the drought a plant was put up in Richards Bay and the City ... amount of R300 million towards the Northern Cape drought. Approval was granted in February and DWS appointed ...
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12 Nov 2020
Division of Revenue Second Amendment Bill & Second Adjustments Appropriation Bill: National Treasury briefing
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... in the regional bulk infrastructure grant for drought and COVID-19 water and sanitation interventions ...
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25 Nov 2020
Division of Revenue Second Amendment Bill: Final Mandates & Committee Report
Committee Meeting | NCOP Appropriations | National Council of Provinces
... cuts, contingency fund and undue reference to the drought disaster. Members asked how many times the Division ...
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15 Oct 2015
DAFF, ARC, OBP, SAVC on their 2014/15 Annual Report ; Marine Living Resources Fund (MLRF) and progress report by DAFF on deregistration of Ncera Farms Pty (Ltd)
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... Department, the deregistration of Ncera farms, and drought management. The Department also briefed the Committee ... How was it planning to mitigate the problem of drought? How many agricultural colleges had been revitalised ...
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21 Oct 2015
Extension of Security Tenure Amendment Bill [B24-2015]: briefing by Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Committee Meeting | Rural Development and Land Reform | National Assembly
... workers become unemployed. Due to the current drought crisis, many farmers would opt to reduce their ... responsibility? Mr Shabane addressed the issue of drought by noting the separate process followed by the ...