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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
State of Nation Address 2019 impact on Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries; with Minister
12 Feb 2019
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries gave a brief introduction saying that exports have grown by 7%. But what is worrying is that imports still remain high and they need to be looking at exports substitution. The recent crop estimation was not a bad one but features of climate ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
SA's Fathers report: Sonke Gender Justice briefing
29 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on the Multi-Party Women Caucus met to receive briefs from Sonke Gender Justice on the State of SA’s Fathers Report; the Department of Social Development and the Women Ministry on the new South African Integrated Programme of Action Addressing Violence Against Women and Children and to adopt ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance: discussion
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met to discuss amongst other issues the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) Quarter 2 performance. The CGE was not present at the meeting and Members felt that it would be better to discuss the report in the presence of the CGE to answer questions that arose.
Before the ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Parmed Report Draft: consideration
26 Nov 2018
Parliamentary and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme Amendment Act, 1996 [No. 8 of 1996] - G 17069
The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme considered its draft report on Parmed, but could not adopt it because the NCOP component was not quorating. During the discussion it ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 2 performance; Tanzanian Parliament delegation
20 Nov 2018
The Commission for Gender Equality presented the report on its second quarter performance, and said employee relations issues and the disarray of the Commission’s Parliamentary unit were key issues. Just under 80% of the Commission’s planned targets had been achieved, and only delays in it being allowed to access correctional ...
Ad Hoc Committee on Parliament and Provincial Medical Aid Scheme
Committee Report on Parmed
14 Nov 2018
The Chairpersons opened the meeting and asked members if they would like to discuss the report on PARMED or if they wanted to dismiss the meeting as quorum was not met. The purpose of the meeting was to adopt the report but due to quorum not being met this could ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women Quarter 2 performance; with Minister
13 Nov 2018
The Department of Women in the Presidency in its Quarter 2 performance achieved 20 (69%) of its 29 targets, while nine (31%) were not achieved. There was an improvement by 9% for targets achieved from Quarter 1. The Department spent 44.9% of the adjusted annual budget by end of Quarter ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) 2020 continuation; with Minister in attendance
13 Nov 2018
The Committee met to discuss the Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) 2020. This was a follow-up from the previous meeting where the Committee received a briefing from the Department on the initiative but there was no time for engagement due to time constraints. The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Minister on Gender Machinery status report; discussion on cooperatives, with Minister
8 Nov 2018
The Caucus met to be briefed by the Minister of Women on the status report of the National Gender Machinery (NGM) and to have a discussion on cooperatives in SA. Members were briefed by Ms R Bhengu (ANC), Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Small Business ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Commercialisation of Black Farmers; Market Access Action Plan; BRRR
30 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee received a report on the National Framework for the Commercialisation of Black Producers from the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). It welcomed the report, saying that deliberate, targeted and well-defined interventions were needed to develop black smallholders into commercial farmers.
The Committee heard that 50 ...