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NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Environmental Affairs on its 2014 Strategic Priorities 2014/15 – 2018/19
26 Aug 2014
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) briefed the Select Committee on its Strategic Priorities for 2014/15 – 2018/19. Given time constraints the Department only managed to speak to the strategic priorities of two of its Programmes which were Programme 1: Administration and Programme 5: Biodiversity and Conservation. A strategic objective ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Legacy Report & Summary Report on Committee's oversight: Content Advisor's briefing
30 Jul 2014
The Content Advisor briefed the Select Committee on the Legacy Report of the Select Committee’s predecessor in the Fourth Parliament, and explained that this Legacy Report was intended to inform the incoming Committee of the scope of work, oversight visits and set out recommendations on various topics or departments overseen. ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Department of Communications & Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on their 2014 Strategic Plans
23 Jul 2014
The meeting started with a briefing by the Deputy Minister of Communications, Ms Stella Ndabeni Abrahams who told the Select Committee that engaging with citizens was a top priority as it gave citizens an opportunity to give feedback to the government. She said the policies of the Department “were very ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Department of Science and Technology on its 2014 Strategic Plan
16 Jul 2014
The Department of Science and Technology highlighted that the Department will be putting a lot of resources into their programme dealing with astronomy and the programme will be growing. Although the programme has a small budget right not, that budget will grow as the programme begins to grow. Another area ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Election of Chairperson
25 Jun 2014
The secretary of the committee opened the floor for the nomination and election of the committee chairperson. After just one nomination and no objections or further nominations, Mr OJ Sefako (ANC) was elected as the chairperson of the Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources.
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Infrastructure Development Bill: Final mandates; Mineral & Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill: Negotiating mandates; Committee Legacy Report
25 Mar 2014
Provinces were asked to present their final mandates on the Infrastructure Development Bill, but the meeting had to be postponed twice whilst the outstanding mandates were awaited. Eventually, it was noted that Western Cape had opposed the Bill. Free State and Gauteng were only holding hearings on the Bill that ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Rollout of National Solar Water Heater Programme: briefing by Department of Energy
24 Feb 2014
The Department of Energy (DoE) met with the Select Committee on Economic Development to brief the Committee on the National Solar Water Heater Programme. The installation of solar water heaters (SWHs) was announced in 2009 and over the current medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) had remained government’s short-term target. In ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
White Paper on South African Policy and Revised White Paper on South Africa's Participation in International Peace Missions: Departmental briefing
11 Feb 2014
The briefing from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation covered the objective of the White Paper on South Africa’s Participation in International Peace Missions, what guided South Africa’s participation and the framework that was utilised. It covered the values enshrined and the mandate for participation. The mandates included the ...