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NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Department of Communications past 3 years performance: Monitoring and Evaluation Unit (Office of the President) briefing
13 Nov 2019
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation presented on the Department of Communications’ performance over the past three years, with a special focus on the public sector, skills development and economic growth. Overall, the Department had performed poorly during the period. It had numerous challenges, including achieving non-compliance scores in ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Mining Appeals in One Environmental System; Rhino Horn draft regulations; with Minister
12 Nov 2019
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) provided statistics on mining appeals decided by its Minister in the One Environmental System in effect for the last five years which means:
• Mining activities are subject to an environmental authorisation process;
• Minister of Mineral Resources is the authority to ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Alexkor progress report on Deed of Settlement obligations
6 Nov 2019
The Department of Public Enterprises and the Alexkor diamond mining company briefed the Committee on the progress made in regard to the court order instructing the government to return land and property rights to the Alexander Bay community. Both reports indicated that some obligations had not been fulfilled for a ...
Public Enterprises
Safcol 2018/19 Annual Report, with special emphasis on land claims & post-settlement model for all stakeholders
30 Oct 2019
The South African Forestry Company Limited (SAFCOL) briefed the joint Committee on its strategy and business, its performance against shareholders compact, the financial performance, its human and social capital, and the way forward for the state-owned entity.
SAFCOL had a history and culture of not doing ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Agri-Parks provincial progress reports; with Deputy Ministers
29 Oct 2019
Agri-Parks in each province reported on their functionality, budget expenditure, and the number of beneficiaries and jobs created in their province by the programme. All nine provinces were present and eight gave briefings as Gauteng had already done so in a previous meeting. The provincial departments provided detailed status reports ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
BBBEE Forever Consortium: follow-up meeting; with Deputy Minister
9 Oct 2019
BBBEE Forever Consortium: DPE briefing - 31 July 2019 meeting report
The Department of Public Enterprises reported back to the Committee that after the meeting of 31 July 2019 its officials had not been able to acquire a copy of the 2001 shareholder agreement between Forever Resorts and Siyonwaba. ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Challenges in ensuring compliance from key polluting industries, legal actions against department & Paris Agreement: DEFF briefing; with the Minister
8 Oct 2019
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries briefed the Committee on the state of air in South Africa. The Minister, Ms Barbara Creecy was in attendance for the briefing.
She expressed her appreciation that the NCOP is showing a keen interest on the matter of air quality management. She stressed ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
SA Express on the airline’s financial challenges, fleet maintenance & turn-around strategy
11 Sep 2019
The Committee was briefed by the South African Express (SAX) delegation on the airline’s financial challenges, fleet maintenance and the implementation of the airline’s turnaround strategy. Members heard that the new Board had found many problems within the entity. These included the mismanagement of finances, a weak balance sheet, ongoing ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Communal Property Associations compliance and intervention report
10 Sep 2019
The Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform (DARDLR) has the role of registering a Communal Property Association (CPA). The community must apply to the Director General who sends an official to sit in meetings when its CPA constitution is drafted and adopted. The CPA will qualify for registration ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
SABC on its financial stability and HR matters; with Deputy Minister
28 Aug 2019
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) presented on the challenges facing the entity, and the need for government funding. Its funding model promoted over-reliance on advertising revenue. The regulatory and legislative framework could not keep pace with the growth of digital technology. Multinational advertisers had reduced spending over the preceding ...