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02 May 2017
NCOP: Unrevised Hansard
Hansard
... by a third already. Early indications point to drought as a leading cause. The ANC government was asked ... various stakeholders, including the DA, to declare drought a national disaster but they refused. Look at ...
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17 Oct 2017
NCOP: Unrevised Hansard
Hansard
... condition, they can be able to survive any kind of drought. Mr C F B SMIT: Chairperson, I would like to ... When there is a challenge, like devastation or drought, the habitat dries out. Even when it starts to ...
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01 Dec 2017
ATC171201: Report of the Select Committee on Appropriations on the Proposed Division of Revenue and Conditional Grant Allocations to Provincial And Local Spheres of Government as Contained in the 2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, dated 1 December 2017
Tabled Committee Report | NCOP Appropriations | National Council of Provinces
... Butterworth’s emergency water supply scheme to respond to drought pressures. 5.4 Indirect Water Services Infrastructure ...
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19 Oct 2017
ATC171019: Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries dated 19 October 2017
Tabled Committee Report | Agriculture | National Assembly
... mostly in respect of CASP Indirect Grant for drought relief. This is attributed to delays in fodder ... the Northern Cape Province. Considering that the drought started in the 2014/15 financial year, the stated ...
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01 Mar 2017
MS A STEYN (DA) TO ASK THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
Question & Reply
... the Government’s drought relief funding programmes in: (aa) 2014-15 There was no drought allocation during ... farmers received assistance from the Government’s drought relief funding programmes (i) in the (aa) 2014-15 ...
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02 Nov 2017
Oral replies to questions in the National Assembly by President Jacob Zuma
Question & Reply
... extreme events such as the increased intensity of drought and severe storms, and given the fact that the ...
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18 May 2017
ATC170518: Report of the South African Parliamentary Delegation to the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Dated 18 May 2017
Tabled Committee Report | Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment | National Assembly
... availability; and extreme weather events, such as droughts, heat waves, violent storms and floods drive migration ...
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31 Mar 2017
ATC170331: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development, having undertaken the oversight visit to Mpumalanga Province from 27 - 31 March 2017
Tabled Committee Report | Small Business Development | National Assembly
... initially due to a sweeping drought that has gradually subsided. Besides drought, there were other factors ... of Agriculture which has not been used owing to drought, and it is being kept safely. 18.1 Observations ...
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20 Jun 2017
ATC170620: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on an oversight visits to the Ilembe and King Cetshwayo Education Districts, KwaZulu-Natal Province, dated 20 June 2017
Tabled Committee Report | Basic Education | National Assembly
... there was a serious water crisis as a result of drought. The Department was currently working on a plan ...
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01 Mar 2017
Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule
... Traditional Affairs and National Treasury on update on drought relief interventions], Good Hope Chamber, Ground ...
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24 Jan 2017
Insurance Bill [B1-2016]: briefing; Committee programme
Committee Meeting | Finance Standing Committee | National Assembly
... agriculture market, as they did not want to play in the drought space. There had to be partnership between government ...
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22 Feb 2017
Compensation Fund, Unemployment Insurance Fund, Supported Employment Enterprises: Quarter 1 and 2 financial and performance briefings
Committee Meeting | Employment and Labour | National Assembly
... business opportunities to help with alleviating drought Supported Employment Enterprises (SEE) 2016/17 ...
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22 Feb 2017
Water Board 2015/16 Annual Reports: Rand Water, Amatola Water plus interventions of Amatola in local municipalities
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... fact that this had been a difficult year with drought. Matters of non-compliance, irregular expenditure ...
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14 Mar 2017
Climate Change impact in region; Climate-Smart Agriculture: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation briefing, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... project on the response to the El Niño-induced drought for small-scale farmers. The project aims to restore ... small-scale households affected by El Niño-induced drought in seven provinces. The project is currently undergoing ...
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18 Oct 2017
Water Infrastructure Development, Internal Audit, Debt Collection, War on Leaks and Drop a Block: Department briefing, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... dealing with drought. The declaration of drought was pronounced by Cabinet. There was drought in more than ... funds to address drought showed that the country experienced unprecedented drought levels in the 2016/2017 ...
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24 Oct 2017
GrainSA & ARC on Grain industry challenges; DAFF Fisheries progress report, with the Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... ensure that all had a common understanding of the drought-resistant maize seed, because it could help smallholder ... maize production. Dr Visser, referring to the drought-resistant seed, indicated they had heard from GM ...
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31 Oct 2017
DTI, National Consumer Commission & NRCS Quarter 2 Performance
Committee Meeting | Trade, Industry and Competition | National Assembly
... provinces should increase. Having noticed the drought that affected the farmers in 2016, when could the ... delivery. The Chairperson asked if the Western Cape drought was likely to affect the growth in agriculture ...
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07 Jun 2017
Free State 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury report
Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces
... management had to be considered. Measures for drought relief had to be considered, as distinct from natural ... anti-corruption task team; the expenditure ceiling, and drought relief distribution issues. ...
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02 May 2017
Department of Communications and GCIS Annual Performance Plans, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Communications and Digital Technologies | National Assembly
... around pertinent issues in the country, such as the drought spell, were not coherent. Communications were left ...
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03 May 2017
Department of Basic Education on its Annual Performance Plan, Deputy Minister present
Committee Meeting | Basic Education | National Assembly
... of the increase in food prices, the impact of drought being one of the factors. However, schools were ...