drought
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07 Aug 2007
Monetary Policy Input by Two Economists; Bank Supervision Department of SA Reserve Bank: briefing
Committee Meeting | Finance Standing Committee | National Assembly
... statistical chart. Unfavourable weather patterns (drought) pushed up the maize price and the production price ... the Israeli moves to produce crops which were drought resistant or required less water than current crops ...
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14 Aug 2007
Department of Agriculture Quarterly Progress Report
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... what policy was in place to deal with current drought problems. How were different sectors accommodated ... to handle them. Responding to questions about drought, the DG assured members that a disaster management ...
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02 Aug 2011
Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill: Adoption, National Research Foundation Board: adoption of shortlist, SADC Protocol briefing,
Committee Meeting | NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture | National Council of Provinces
... particular, to allow them to prepare for floods, droughts or other environmental catastrophes. South Africa ...
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28 Mar 2007
Mining Licensing; Energy Efficiency Strategies & Bio-Fuels Strategy: briefing by Department
Committee Meeting | Mineral Resources and Energy | National Assembly
... they delay today? Bio-fuels look attractive but drought was an issue and they need to do the topic justice ...
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24 Oct 2007
Eradication of Illegal Water use: briefings by Department and Water Tribunal
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... the Committee, Western Cape was emerging from a drought and a question was raised at the time regarding ...
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18 Oct 2005
Department of Land Affairs Annual Report 2004/2005: hearing
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... the Department assisted farmers in droughts. Mr Thomas said drought relief fell outside the work of the ...
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06 Mar 2012
Professor Amman, Biotechnology Scientist, Doctor N H Obokor CEO AfricaBio, Kingston Mashingaidze Manager Agricultural Research Council, COREY Pickelsimer US Embassy
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... list of drought-prone countries across the world. ARC was concentrating on development of drought tolerant ... about 14 million people were food-insecure, and drought was the main factor limiting maize production. ...
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28 May 2013
Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Strategic & Annual Performance Plans 2013; Committee Report on Departments Strategic Plans 2013
Committee Meeting | NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements | National Council of Provinces
... Bill (DMA). A risk and vulnerability profile for drought would be developed by 31 March 2014. The DMA Bill ...
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28 Feb 2011
Flooding Disaster Management: December 2010/ January 2011: Update by Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... level of water storage and this coincided with drought areas. Dam levels shown gave actual percentages ... situated adjacent to the rivers. There was a drought alert in the Eastern Cape as dam levels were very ...
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07 Mar 2011
Bulk Infrastructure: Department of Cooperative Governance update; Consideration of Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill [B22-2010] in presence of Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... address important issues such as water availability, drought and degradation of infrastructure. Water was an ...
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22 Sep 2015
Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10B-2015]: consideration & adoption; Committee Report on Makana Local Municipality
Committee Meeting | NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements | National Council of Provinces
... disaster management more cumbersome. Using the KZN drought as an example, he said that funds were often received ...
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31 Aug 2016
Brexit impact: DIRCO & Institute for Global Dialogue; SA-EU & EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreements: Foreign Policy impact; African Renaissance Fund 4 quarter 2015/16 performance
Committee Meeting | International Relations | National Assembly
... of R42 829 886 had been processed for Namibian drought relief. R2 781 659 had been processed for the African ...
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15 Nov 2017
Heritage Asset accounting challenges; Arts and Culture White Paper impact; Winnie Mandela Brandfort Museum; Nyokeni Precinct
Committee Meeting | NCOP Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture | National Council of Provinces
... intake of learners was not disadvantaged due to the drought; why the audit stated that oversight and monitoring ...
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17 May 2017
Appropriation Bill 2017: comments by Financial and Fiscal Commission
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... the MTSF goals have been hampered by the recent drought which caused major damage to infrastructure and ...
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17 May 2016
Department of Water and Sanitation on its 2016 Annual Performance Plan
Committee Meeting | NCOP Health and Social Services | National Council of Provinces
... Members were concerned that the crisis regarding the drought had not been included in the budgetary allocation ...
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13 Sep 2016
Minister & DTI on its 2015/16 Annual Report; Auditor-General on Department's Audit outcomes
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... agriculture had slowed, although the effects of the drought were still being felt, but the worst might now ...
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13 Sep 2016
CITES COP17 Conference in South Africa: Colloquium on preparations, with Minister in attendance
Committee Meeting | Environment, Forestry and Fisheries | National Assembly
... biodiversity and rhino and elephant poaching •Drought surprises e.g. rare sightings and possible poaching ... culling of hippo and buffalo in the KNP due to drought and wanted to know if this was true. The presentation ...
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08 Nov 2016
Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries on 2nd quarter 2016/17 performance, in presence of Minister & Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... done, and where the budget was coming from, for drought relief, asked about a shrimp consignment from India ...
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08 Nov 2017
Debt Relief Committee Bill: deliberations
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... case of retrenchment. For natural disasters like drought, there was need for government intervention which ...
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06 Feb 2018
COGTA Minister on drought, Back to Basics, State Capture media allegations
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... Traditional Affairs. The Minister addressed the drought, Phase 2 of the Back to Basics programme and media ... Dubai. Minister Des van Rooyen addressed the drought, saying that the Western, Northern, as well as ...