"drought"
in Committee Meetings
175 matches
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16 Nov 2016
Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill: stakeholders’ consultative meeting, with Deputy Minister of Labour
Committee Meeting | Rural Development and Land Reform | National Assembly
... the farming community has shrunk and with the drought what is being done to prepare for the crowds that ...
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23 Nov 2016
Minister's response to Public Protector Report on Lesotho Highlands Water Project; Rand Water replies to tender irregularity allegations
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... Is Rand Water aware of this, given the current drought in South Africa? The Chairperson stated that ...
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01 Mar 2016
2016 Budget Review Analysis by Parliamentary Budget Office & Financial and Fiscal Commission
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... while domestically, South Africa was experiencing drought conditions. There had been an increase in maize ...
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20 Oct 2016
Department of Water and Sanitation on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Minister present
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... municipalities across eight of the nine provinces having drought declarations. In the middle of the 2015/16 financial ... that there was never a budget put aside for the drought, the Department had to take action regardless. ...
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21 Oct 2016
Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority, Water Research Commission, Inkomti-Usuthu & Breede-Gouritz CMA on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... mind was the demand character of the drought. In the current drought, people had not dropped below the required ... regard to water provision and in light of the drought and weather, new technologies were ready to be ...
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24 Aug 2016
Update on African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund: Departmental briefing
Committee Meeting | NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour | National Council of Provinces
... The Department has continued to support for the drought relief project in Namibia phase 2-equipping of ...
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26 Oct 2016
Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase 2: progress report, with the Minister
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... whether the delays had impacted on the current drought situation. Members asked who would make a final ...
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11 Oct 2016
National Empowerment Fund on its 2015/16 Annual Report; Quarter 1 & 2 performance; Intellectual Property Consultative Framework; Procurement Report
Committee Meeting | Trade and Industry | National Assembly
... domestic environment is also still affected by drought conditions which affects the mining sector. The ...
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08 Nov 2016
New Growth Path: response to questions by Minister of Economic Development
Committee Meeting | Economic Development | National Assembly
... commodity prices, especially iron ore, and the severe drought has meant that only 1.9 million jobs have been ...
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07 Sep 2016
Climate change impact on water and sanitation; MDGs attainment & SDGs incorporation into Department of Water and Sanitation's work
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... water-scarce country, he disagrees with that notion. When drought strikes, it did not strike everyone at the same ... irrigation restrictions were being observed in drought-stricken areas like Hluhluwe, because if they were ...
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12 Apr 2016
Agricultural Research Council, South African Veterinary Council & National Agricultural Marketing Council on their 2016 Strategic & Annual Performance Plans, with Minister in attendance
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... the ARC were in dealing with areas affected by drought; and asked how far the progress was in the integration ...
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14 Apr 2016
South African Weather Services, South African National Parks & Isimangaliso on their 2016 Strategic & Annual Performance Plan
Committee Meeting | Environment, Forestry and Fisheries | National Assembly
... great strain because of the country’s current drought, which had resulted in many water species dying ...
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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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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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16 Aug 2016
KwaZulu-Natal on its 2015/16 unaudited Annual Report; Land Bank board appointments: deliberations
Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces
... as they had not been budgeted for. Due to the drought, the Agriculture and Rural Development Department’s ... deficit budget due to budget cuts on account of drought relief, among others. The province would maintain ...
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16 Sep 2016
Grain Imports; GrainSA and SA Poultry Association tariff application outcomes: ITAC briefing
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... always high, but had escalated in 2015 due to the drought, and it was currently estimated that the shortage ... increase in 2015 and 2016 specifically due to the drought. In the past when maize was self-sufficient, its ...
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22 Sep 2016
Fetsa Tlala Food Production initiative & conditional grants: Provincial Departments reporting Day 2
Committee Meeting | Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development | National Assembly
... Programme (CASP), Ilima Letsema, Fetsa Tlala, drought relief programmes (detailing the number of functional ... why they had not reported anything specific on drought support, and a full report on boreholes was requested ...