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02 Mar 2016
Department of Science and Technology on its 2nd Quarter 2015/16 performance
Committee Meeting | Science and Technology | National Assembly
... underway to employ crop improvement systems for drought resistant crops, particularly, wheat and soybean ...
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02 Mar 2016
2016 Division of Revenue Bill: South African Local Government Association comments & input from National Treasury
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... pressure on the budget, in particular due to the drought, the zero-increase in higher education fees, and ...
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08 Mar 2016
South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on its Annual Performance Plan 2016
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... giving municipalities struggling with the impact of drought. What was SALGA’s plans for the continuous learning ... make its own suggestions on how to tackle the drought. Members said municipal managers needed to improve ...
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09 Mar 2016
Unemployment Insurance Amendment Bill: adoption; Department of Labour 2nd & 3rd quarter performance: FFC comments
Committee Meeting | Employment and Labour | National Assembly
... creation last year was agriculture, in spite of the drought, and construction, in spite of the reports of absence ...
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11 Mar 2016
Umgeni, Overberg & Magalies Water Boards on their 2014/15 Annual Reports
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... with after hour requisitions? How had the current drought affected UW and how instrumental had it been in ...
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15 Mar 2016
Department of Small Business Development on its 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plan
Committee Meeting | Small Business Development | National Assembly
... small businesses that might fail because of the drought, how many municipalities were being targeted, and ...
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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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31 May 2017
Northern Cape & Limpopo 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury reports; Limpopo post intervention: National Treasury input
Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces
... under-spent despite there being a drought. This raised concern on how the drought was being dealt with. The Chairperson ... Mining and drought had had an impact on the agricultural sector. Mookgophong still had a drought, and this ...
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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 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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14 Mar 2017
Climate Change impact in region; Climate-Smart Agriculture: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation briefing, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | 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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15 Mar 2017
Water Tariffs: Department of Water and Sanitation & Water Boards briefing
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... related to the drought. They requested a forensic audit on the funding going towards drought relief, specifically ... massive amounts of money that had gone into the KZN drought relief and they could not see any fruits from this ...
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06 Sep 2017
Department of Water and Sanitation Quarter 4: Performance Hearing; with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... eight provinces as disaster stricken due to the drought and in 2017 had declared the Western Cape disaster ... Traditional Affairs earmarked R75 million for drought relief in the Western Cape. Because the Department ...
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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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27 Oct 2015
School Nutrition petition; School Readiness for 2016; National Education Evaluation & Development Unit (NEEDU)
Committee Meeting | Basic Education | National Assembly
... provide produce for Lesotho while the country had a drought, to now provide that same fresh produce to the ...