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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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31 Oct 2017
DTI, National Consumer Commission & NRCS Quarter 2 Performance
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | 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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01 Feb 2017
Internal planning session, review of Annual Report, Annual Performance Plan
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... mining operations in Game protected areas and drought stricken communities that had rivers; lack of access ... on climate change since water supply impacts on drought; considering the impact of health on water and ...
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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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02 May 2017
Department of Communications and GCIS Annual Performance Plans, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Communications | 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 ...
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10 May 2017
Water and Sanitation Draft Policy: Department briefing
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... 2015 a regulation went out to say that during the drought one could not extract more than 40 000 litres of ... this was due to mine licences and not because of drought, as the Department had said. The Chairperson ...
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14 Nov 2017
Economic Development Department on Quarter 2 performance, with Minister and Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Economic Development | National Assembly
... agricultural sector, and its responses to the drought; how it would increase the percentage of people ...
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15 Nov 2017
National Disaster Management Centre Annual Report 2016/17
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... ago Parliament had been called to declare the drought a national disaster. Why was it not declared? Why ... were not functioning well. It was known that a drought was coming. Members asked which provinces were ...
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22 Nov 2017
Committee Report on Free State oversight
Committee Meeting | Small Business Development | National Assembly
... located in Kopanong Township. In light of ongoing drought and water crisis, this is one project with massive ...
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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, Land Reform and Rural Development | 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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16 May 2017
Debt Relief proposed policy; WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement & Trade Negotiations; BBBEE Commissioner appointment
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... was facing such as the high unemployment rate, drought and low economic growth margins. He said DTI recommends ...
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12 Oct 2017
SA Farmers Development Association challenges with sugar industry & Department response
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... farmers and this was at its peak in 2015 due to drought. The emerging growers are facing both cost and ...
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29 Nov 2017
Outstanding water debt by municipalities, with DWS Minister + Deputy & COGTA Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... involved in an emergency programmes during the drought period, despite struggling financially, yet CoGTA ... the debt collector should also be addressed. The drought intervention was CoGTA’s responsibility, and they ...
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14 Feb 2017
Liquor Products Amendment Bill, National Forests Amendments Bill & National Veld and Forest Fire Amendment Bill: Parliamentary officials' briefing; Armyworm outbreak: Department briefing, in presence of Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... was in the country. She wanted to know whether drought-resistant maize was being grown, and suggested ...
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14 Jun 2017
Mpumalanga, Western Cape & Gauteng 2016/17 expenditure: Provincial Treasury reports
Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces
... growth, policy uncertainty, infrastructure gaps, drought, rising fiscal pressure, and high joblessness for ...
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30 May 2017
Economic Development Department on its Annual Performance Plan, with Minister & Deputy
Committee Meeting | NCOP Economic and Business Development | National Council of Provinces
... for 2017. SA had also experienced its biggest drought in generations which impacted on its agricultural ...
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23 Aug 2017
Department of Water and Sanitation on Quarter 1 performance; with Minister
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... with the restrictions due to drought conditions. Restrictions on drought conditions were still applicable ...