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  • 18 Dec 2018

    Mr W W Wessels (FF Plus) to ask the Minister of Water and Sanitation:

    Question & Reply

    ... Metropolitan Municipality experienced significant drought conditions from around 2015 until 2017 seasons ... seasons. Although the situation has improved a bit, drought conditions are still lingering into this 2018 season ...

  • 20 Mar 2018

    DAFF & Marine Living Resources Fund 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan

    Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly

    ... to know the number of hectares planted with the drought tolerant maize seed. Fourth, she enquired if there ... indicated the number of hectares planted with the drought-tolerant maize seed when they presented to the ...

  • 12 Jun 2018

    Steel & Sugar Tariffs: DTI, ITAC, SARS; Sugar Industry; Space activities

    Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly

    ... price of sugar from Swaziland? What about the drought? What was the issue about imports which could kill ...

  • 18 Apr 2018

    National Research Foundation & NACI & HSRC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan

    Committee Meeting | Science and Technology | National Assembly

    ... wanted to establish if the NRF had projects for drought-stricken provinces. Dr Qhobela indicated they ...

  • 05 Jun 2018

    Western Cape 2017/18 expenditure outcomes: Provincial Treasury

    Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces

    ... increasing population size; infrastructure gaps; the drought and water crisis, and youth unemployment. Provincial ... municipalities. R100 million was set aside for immediate drought requirements. Debt prevention and collection by ...

  • 28 Nov 2018

    NA: Unrevised Hansard

    Hansard

    ... highlight the following allocations: R5665 million for drought relief allocated to the Department of Agriculture ... Telecommunications and Postal Services; R1,3 billion for drought relief through the function of Water and Sanitation; ...

  • 07 Sep 2018

    Section 25 review of Constitution: public hearings day 4

    Committee Meeting | Constitutional Review Committee | Joint (NA + NCOP)

    ... thinks were making it exceptionally difficult. The drought had a contribution to make in terms of the agricultural ...

  • 07 Nov 2018

    NCOP: Unrevised Hansard

    Hansard

    ... 15 years one province or another has experience drought and water shortages, but that does not include ... two crucial years have also been severe cases of drought in large farming communities across the Western ...

  • 27 Nov 2018

    NA - Unrevised Hansard

    Hansard

    ... of Cape Town, in order to punish the people for drought which is a natural phenomenon, even when the dams ...

  • 24 Apr 2018

    NA: Unrevised hansard

    Hansard

    ... of seawater to mitigate the impact of ongoing drought in South Africa, as well as wave energy concerns ... government intervention to mitigate the impact of the drought on the economic development and on job creation ...

  • 16 Feb 2018

    President Cyril Ramaphosa: 2018 State of the Nation Address

    Media briefing

    ... social services and agricultural production. The drought situation in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and ... remains gripped by one of the most devastating droughts in a century, which has severely impacted our ...

  • 29 Nov 2018

    NA - Unrevised Hansard

    Hansard

    ... rands was provided to the land bank to assist in drought relief and which never got to farmers in KZN. Again ... included high production input costs, persistent drought, high electricity costs, record-keeping skills ...

  • 07 Mar 2018

    NA: Unrevised hansard

    Hansard

    ... reserve, and provisionally allocating R6 billion for drought management and public infrastructure.     Having ...

  • 27 Feb 2018

    NA: Unrevised hansard

    Hansard

    ... to this department, we have no hope. The same drought that she caused in the Department of Water of Sanitation ...

  • 14 Aug 2018

    Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality on IDP, LED & service delivery

    Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces

    ... challenges confronting the metro were a severe drought; unacceptably high water and electricity losses; ...

  • 16 Oct 2018

    Food Control Agency; Food & Nutrition Security Implementation Plan; Listeriosis; Poultry Industry; Agricultural Productivity

    Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly

    ... Department also reported on the impact of the drought on the agricultural economy since the beginning ... Cape had lagged behind because of the protracted drought, and late planting had delayed harvesting, the ...

  • 21 Nov 2018

    SAA on R5 billion Special Appropriation Bill; Adjustments Appropriation Bill

    Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly

    ... other funds were reserved for contingencies and drought relief. As a result, the 2018/19 appropriation ...

  • 18 Oct 2018

    Western Cape Department of Local Government 2017/18 Annual Report; with Minister

    Committee Meeting | Local Government (WCPP) | Western Cape

    ... spheres of government and sectors in addressing the drought challenge that the Western Cape Province had experienced ... the entire Department as disasters such as the drought in the province had significantly affected its ...

  • 06 Mar 2018

    StatsSA on food insecurity & agriculture; Soygro research; Fetsa Tlala progress & planting plans: DAFF & Provinces; with Minister

    Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly

    ... diseases; mechanisation programme; impact of the drought resistant seed; and progress on the rehabilitation ... delivery. Even immediate challenges such as the drought have a silver lining. Restrictions on the availability ...

  • 21 Nov 2018

    Black Producers Commercialisation Blended Funding Model; AgriParks

    Committee Meeting | Rural Development and Land Reform | National Assembly

    ... change and extreme weather conditions such as drought, floods and fires; and limited government resources ...