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05 Apr 2016
Analysis of Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries & Entities 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans: Committee Support Staff briefing
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... of the agriculture sector contracted due to the drought, this led to certain targets being revised down ...
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02 Nov 2016
2016 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS): SALGA input
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... town like Gariep it was a huge amount. There was drought in the Free State, and reduction in the water and ... million addition was granted to the Free State for drought relief. There was a reduction in the total bucket ...
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23 Feb 2016
Mayor of Mkhanyakude District Municipality on s 139 (1)(b): input; Committee report on Mkhanyakude District Municipality
Committee Meeting | NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements | National Council of Provinces
... of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on the drought situation. The Member of Executive Committee (MEC) ...
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05 Apr 2016
Economic Development Department on its 2016/17 Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy
Committee Meeting | Economic Development | National Assembly
... Sanitation to address challenges of caused by the drought. They questioned the kind of interaction the Department ...
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13 Sep 2016
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance, with Minister in attendance
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... The current drought was the worst since 1904 and had had a devastating effect on the sector and agricultural ... livestock units, had also been affected by the drought. To mitigate the impact, just under R1.0 billion ...
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20 Sep 2016
Drought response plan: GrainSA, ARC, South African Weather Service & Land Bank: Plant Improvement & Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: voting
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... the objective of the meeting was to evaluate the drought response plan’s readiness to assist all stakeholders ... billion funding would be released to alleviate the drought, but she did not think that amount would be enough ...
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11 Oct 2016
Department of Environmental Affairs, SANParks, iSimangaliso Authority on their 2015/16 Annual Reports; with Auditor-General & FFC input
Committee Meeting | Environment, Forestry and Fisheries | National Assembly
... finished. A big challenge iSimangaliso faced was the drought, although it had only moderate cost implications ...
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09 Nov 2016
Department of Water and Sanitation on 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... water tanks that had been centrally procured for drought purposes. There were delays in receiving and processing ...
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24 Feb 2016
Transnet on its 2014/15 Annual Report and financial statements
Committee Meeting | Public Enterprises | National Assembly
... higher volumes as grain started to arrive in the drought relief efforts. Members asked if Transnet would ...
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16 Feb 2016
Department Response to 2014 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, with Minister and Deputy present
Committee Meeting | Energy | National Assembly
... recommendation has been put on hold due to the prevailing drought in the counry as well as the sharp decrease in ...
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17 Feb 2016
Pre-Budget presentation by Parliamentary Budget Office; South African Economic Update: World Bank briefing
Committee Meeting | Finance Standing Committee | National Assembly
... Significant challenges to the economy had been the drought, the depreciating rand, and South Africa’s lowered ...
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17 Feb 2016
Department of Small Business Development on its 2015/16 2nd/3rd Quarter performance, with Minister
Committee Meeting | Small Business Development | National Assembly
... functioning, with two not functioning due to the drought. In answer to Mr Chance, he explained that the ...
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24 Feb 2016
Water Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap: Department of Science and Technology briefing
Committee Meeting | Science and Technology | National Assembly
... technologies and processes in addressing the current drought facing South Africa, given that 98% of the country’s ...
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20 Apr 2016
Invest SA One-Stop Shop: briefing by Department of Trade and Industry
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... on investment in South Africa and the impact of drought, policy uncertainty, capacity in local government ...
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02 Feb 2016
2016 Strategic Planning: Department Rural Development, Ingonyama Trust, DPME on Rural Development; PLAAS & LARC on land tenure & restitution; Auditor-General on audit
Committee Meeting | Rural Development and Land Reform | National Assembly
... 2030. Food inflation of 12% was likely because of drought. Sustainable agrarian reform depended on the fast-track ...
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03 Feb 2016
Workshop on Five Year Strategic Plan of the Portfolio Committee: day 2
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... silos, so that, for instance, new developments in drought-resistant crops were not being fed into the work ...
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19 Feb 2016
Grain South Africa on drought impact and its food security strategy
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... new era farmers, briefed the Committee on the drought that the country is currently facing; the impact ... believes that there are two issues connected to the drought. The first is to ensure that there is enough affordable ...
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25 Feb 2016
Minister of Finance on the 2016 Budget
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... target band until 2018 due to the weaker rand, drought-related food inflation and electricity price increases ...
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16 Nov 2016
SA Foreign Policy issues; Meeting with South African Council on International Relations
Committee Meeting | International Relations | National Assembly
... Then there was climate change, which caused more drought, and the interrelated issues of food insecurity ...
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24 Nov 2016
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
Committee Meeting | NCOP Appropriations | National Council of Provinces
... report, he had forwarded to NT the document on drought relief and proposals from his province regarding ... provincial DAFFs in finalising how the procurement for Drought Relief Support and Distribution could be managed ...