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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 | National Assembly
... genetically-modified (GM) crops and foods. Africa is prone to drought, disease and pests. Scientists within Africa-Bio ...
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26 Feb 2002
Genetically Modified Food: Briefing by Departments of Health, Environmental Affairs & Tourism, & Agriculture
Committee Meeting | Health | National Assembly
... to increase the yield of food, as floods and drought have a negative impact on yields. Dr Rabinowitz ...
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20 Mar 2015
Department of Environmental Affairs on their Strategic Plan for 2015-2019
Committee Meeting | Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment | National Assembly
... Second UN Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (UNDLDD), while the last indicator was to increase ...
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15 May 2018
Minister of Health's overview of Health & future plans
Committee Meeting | NCOP Social Services | National Council of Provinces
... said all the budget had been allocated to the drought crisis. In Gauteng also, not all the accredited ...
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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 | 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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28 Feb 2017
Economic Development Department on its Third Quarter Performance, with Minister & Deputy in attendance
Committee Meeting | Economic Development | National Assembly
... sector to circumvent these challenges. The current drought had a serious impact on food prices, on the contribution ...
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13 Oct 2015
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries 2014/5 performance: Auditor-General; DPME and FFC briefing
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... of creating jobs when there is a high level of drought in the country; wanted to know if there would be ... wanted to find out if it has considered the looming drought that is experienced in the country, its impact ...
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21 Jul 2020
Adjustments Appropriation Bill: COGTA briefing
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... provinces on Minister Dlamini-Zuma’s announcement that drought relief would not be extended. Members proposed ... economic class. Members queried the non- extension of drought relief funding and felt that funds be made available ...
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16 Feb 2021
Update on state of Dr JS Moroka & Lekwa Local Municipalities
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... was a drought in the Municipality, and the national government provided R18 million as a drought relief ...
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17 Feb 2021
Provincial Departments of Agriculture on Quarter 1 & 2 performance on grants; with Minister
Committee Meeting | NCOP Appropriations | National Council of Provinces
... last year in the Division of Revenue Bill, where drought relief funds were paid to the provinces that were ... these grants. In effect, some farmers did not get drought relief because there was no spending. Someone had ...
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05 Apr 2001
Globe Briefing on Climate Change and Effects on Water
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... Changes in seasonal precipitation - Changes in drought hazards and - Changes in flood hazards. Mr ... problems are exacerbated during dry seasons and drought periods when rural water supply schemes fail, ...
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11 Sep 2013
Deputy Minister of Finance & Land Bank briefing on support that is given to distressed farmers and the newly-developed Wholesale Financing Model
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... farmer to repay a loan which was in arrears due to drought; if both DRDLR and DAFF were involved with support ...
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27 Feb 2018
Biodiversity Colloquium; with Minister
Committee Meeting | Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment | National Assembly
... land was the critical matter. In the context of drought and change in climate, some of the land areas that ... of communities during hardship times, such as drought, with the removal of animals for meat distribution ...
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14 Feb 2023
JS: Debate on President’s State-of-the-nation Address
Hansard
... levels of poverty and food insecurity caused by the drought and later the much-abused COVID-19 pandemic, the ... security and protect the city from the risk of future droughts, the City is now investing R5 billion to introduce ...
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08 Nov 2022
NA: Unrevised hansard
Hansard
... in Banda Arche in Indonesia and victims in the drought- stricken areas on the Kenyan border with Somalia; ...
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31 Mar 2022
NA: Unrevised Hansard
Hansard
... used during droughts, but one never knows whether one is at the end of a short drought, or at the beginning ...
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09 Jun 2022
NA: Unrevised hansard
Hansard
... been affected. The floods and in some instances drought, have worsened the situation. The full participation ...
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04 Aug 2022
NCOP: Unrevised hansard
Hansard
... inundated with matters, leading to water supply, drought, electricity supply, sanitation, transport matters ...
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18 May 2022
NCOP: Unrevised Hansard
Hansard
... areas as result of the impact of drought of the 2018-2020 period. Droughts have a huge socioeconomic impact ... for emerging challenges. We further notes that drought, water pollution, climate change and corruption ...