drought
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20 Feb 2003
Zimbabwe Situation: briefing by Church Leaders
Committee Meeting | International Relations | National Assembly
... Zimbabwean government had blamed the food crisis on the drought, but he felt that was not so. The problem began ...
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10 Jun 2003
Role of the Private Sector in Agricultural Development: hearings
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... genetically-modified (GM) crops and foods. Africa is prone to drought, disease and pests. Scientists within Africa-Bio ...
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25 May 2010
Current Expenditure Trends and their Impact on Implementation: briefing by Department of Water Affairs
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... particularly in the Eastern Cape where a serious drought was experienced. Ms Ngele said that the rain ...
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26 Oct 2009
Deputy Minister on Department of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs 2008/09 Annual Report
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... R177m was mobilised for bulk water/sanitation and drought/flood relief. Skills audits were conducted in fifteen ...
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28 Oct 2015
2015 Revised Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals (MTBPS): public hearings
Committee Meeting | Finance Standing Committee | National Assembly
... policies. The contingency reserve was there for droughts, floods and other emergencies. COSATU felt that ...
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07 Apr 2016
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform on 2016/17 Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan
Committee Meeting | Rural Development and Land Reform | National Assembly
... Department's plan on how it was going to deal with drought in rural communities. Ms Archery replied that the ... together with the Department of Agriculture since the drought had been announced, and reported weekly to the ...
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08 Apr 2016
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Strategic & Annual Performance Plans: briefing by Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluations
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... lying fallow and DAFF’s excuse for this was drought. The drought that the country was experiencing had become ... the case of sudden natural disasters like the drought that has been decimating the sector since 2015 ...
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27 Jan 2016
Farm worker conditions in South Africa: ILO research; Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill hearings programme
Committee Meeting | Rural Development and Land Reform | National Assembly
... exercise in futility." The Committee asked why the drought was not included in the study as it is crucial ...
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11 Feb 2008
Agriculture Provincial Conditional Grants 3rd Quarter 2007/8 spending
Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces
... farms as well as flood repairs and recovery work. Drought, flood and hail relief money was received in December ... amounted to 41% of the budget. 80% of the budget for drought relief was spent. Overall, this resulted in 75% ...
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19 Feb 2008
Land Bank Briefing on its Turnaround Strategy
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... have lacked the skills to do business. Very often drought led to the loss of the business, as the farmer ...
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21 Feb 2017
Department of Home Affairs on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Minister
Committee Meeting | NCOP Health and Social Services | National Council of Provinces
... the Beit Bridge area because, with the recent drought, people could simply walk across the river bed ...
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17 May 2006
Review of Portfolio Committee’s Oversight & Recommendations to Relevant Departments in 2005 & adoption of Hearings on Water Boar
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... the areas visited there was a problem with the drought and funds have been made available to municipalities ... up that municipalities failed to spend on the drought fund and also that municipalities need training ...
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24 Mar 2015
AGSA & FCC on Strategic Plans, 2015/16 APPs and Budgets of DAFF; DAFF on Agricultural Policy Action Plan; Progress report by DAFF on deregistration of Ncera Farms (Pty) Ltd
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... of multi-purpose crop production, small grains, drought and water stress tolerant crop varieties and improved ...
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09 Nov 2017
Division of Revenue Amendment Bill: National Treasury briefing
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... Butterworth’s emergency water supply scheme to respond to drought pressures. R265 million will be added to the bucket ...
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23 Apr 2013
Eskom on the state of the power system and on securing coal resources
Committee Meeting | Public Enterprises | National Assembly
... had to be adaptation to climate change such as droughts. Robust plants had to be designed. Placing of ...
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29 Aug 2011
New Growth Path & Job Creation Target of 5 Million: briefing by Minister for Economic Development
Committee Meeting | Economic Development | National Assembly
... unusual twelve-month period with significant floods, droughts and animal diseases. This could explain short-term ...
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31 Oct 2012
National Water Resources Strategy 2: public hearings Day 4
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... She highlighted the example of the southern Cape drought, where capping water consumption for everyone had ... desalination plants built during the southern Cape drought of 2009/10 were now mothballed. With water trading ...
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01 Nov 2016
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: public hearings programme
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... National Disaster Management next week regarding the drought issue. The Chairperson noted the request. The meeting ...
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03 Mar 2011
Climate Change Green Paper 2010: public hearings
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... it depended whether SA was hit by floods or by drought as to where there would be water, and if the temperature ...
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17 Oct 2011
Deputy Minister of Finance briefing: Land Bank and Development Bank of Southern Africa Financial and Fiscal Commission Annual Report Annual Reports 2010/11
Committee Meeting | Finance Standing Committee | National Assembly
... African agriculture faced huge challenges such as drought, floods and veld fires in some areas. On the other ...