drought

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  • 18 May 2017

    Minister of Cooperative Governance And Traditional Affairs Budget Speech

    Media briefing

    ... its coordinated drought intervention plans across the country to address the drought’s devastating effects ... Speaker,   The country has just experienced severe drought conditions, which is said to be the worst since ...

  • 09 Feb 2017

    President Jacob Zuma: 2017 State of the Nation Address

    Media briefing

    ... through a difficult period last year because of the drought. To date, an estimated amount of 2.5 billion rand ...

  • 24 May 2017

    Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Budget Speech

    Media briefing

    ... distributed drought tolerant maize seed among smallholder farmers and provided technical advice on drought feeding ... periodic droughts; which in turn, results in very low production yields. During this drought period, our ...

  • 25 May 2017

    Minister of Economic Development Budget Speech

    Media briefing

    ... a difficult time, when we faced a significant drought, weak economic performance in the rest of the continent ...

  • 23 May 2017

    Minister of Trade and Industry Budget Speech

    Media briefing

    ... of that we had in 2016 the impact of the severe drought, the slow recovery in the Mining sector with spillover ... with the Agricultural sector recovering from the drought and commodity prices increasing somewhat.  However ...

  • 25 May 2017

    Minister of Environmental Affairs Budget Speech

    Media briefing

    ... ensure that drought risk management issues are adequately addressed to enhance resilience to drought. The Department ... land degradation and to mitigate the effects of drought for South Africa and developed a new NAP for the ...

  • 01 Feb 2017

    PMG Review of Parliament 2016

    Media briefing

    ... pressing issues, including the national minimum wage, drought, performance of SOEs, jobs and the economy, women’s ...

  • 26 May 2017

    Minister of Water and Sanitation Budget Speech

    Media briefing

    ... Administration, the country has been hit by the worst drought in the last 100 years and the severest for the ... the Western Cape, in the last 104 years. This drought has not only affected South Africa, but also the rest ...