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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 ...
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21 Aug 2012
Veterinary and Para-Veterinary Professions Amendment Bill [B25-2012]: Deliberations
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... people affected. He also noted that, owing to the drought in the USA, South Africans had had to find alternative ...
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16 Feb 2016
Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries 2nd Quarter performance: Committee Researcher and AGSA briefings
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... Members also asked how the shifting of funding for drought was being done. Members commented that it was a ...
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18 May 2016
Department of Science and Technology on its 2016 Annual Performance Plan
Committee Meeting | NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication | National Council of Provinces
... asked what the Department was doing about the drought that facing South Africa; the coffee and tea programme ... significant constraint to crop production and increasing drought tolerance of crops was one of the steps to gaining ...
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06 Feb 2018
Provincial Education Departments Performance Indicators: roundtable discussion
Committee Meeting | Basic Education | National Assembly
... it is important to bring up the impact that the drought will have on WCED targets The Chairperson welcomed ...
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22 Mar 2017
Operation Phakisa: DPME and DAFF; National Food & Nutrition Security Implementation plan: progress report by DPME; Poultry industry: response from DAFF
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... trade issues, the re-use of closed abattoirs, the drought, dumping of chicken breast meat by SA to the EU ...
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09 May 2017
Economic Development Department & Industrial Development Corporation on their Annual Performance Plans, with Minister & Deputy
Committee Meeting | Economic Development | National Assembly
... agricultural sector was severely affected by the worst drought on record, while weak global demand and lower commodity ...
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25 Oct 2017
Department of Basic Education 2016/17 Annual Report
Committee Meeting | NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture | National Council of Provinces
... intake of learners was not disadvantaged due to the drought; why the audit stated that oversight and monitoring ...