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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Fetsa Tlala Food Production initiative & conditional grants: Provincial Departments reporting Day 1
21 Sep 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) told the Committee that funds were allocated to provinces in four tranches. The monitoring of projects and programmes was conducted on a quarterly basis by both the DAFF and the provincial departments of agriculture (PDA). Funds were 100% aligned to the Agricultural ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Drought response plan: GrainSA, ARC, South African Weather Service & Land Bank: Plant Improvement & Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: voting
20 Sep 2016
The Committee was told that the objective of the meeting was to evaluate the drought response plan’s readiness to assist all stakeholders. The Minister of Finance had said that R1 billion funding would be released to alleviate the drought, but she did not think that amount would be enough to ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Plant Improvement and Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills [B8 & 11 – 2015]: further deliberations
6 Sep 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) took the Portfolio Committee through the rest of the Plant Improvement Bill’s clauses -- Clause 60 onwards -- in order to complete the deliberation and amending processes. The Parliamentary Legal Adviser (PLA) assisted with the reading of the bill, and each revised ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Plant Improvement and Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: deliberations
2 Sep 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) took the Portfolio Committee through the rest of the Plant Improvement Bill’s clauses in order to complete the deliberation and amending processes. The Parliamentary Legal Adviser assisted with the reading of the Plant Improvement Bill, and each revised clause was agreed individually ...
Small Business Development
Vodacom & Ericsson on participation opportunities for previously disadvantaged people in telecommunications
31 Aug 2016
Vodacom South Africa briefed the Committee on the transformation agenda of its company. The presentation explained the ownership percentages with 13.91% under the South African Government and 21.09% being black ownership. The majority of the shares are owned by the Vodafone group which is one of the largest global telecommunications ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Plant Improvement Bill: deliberations
30 Aug 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) took the Portfolio Committee through the existing amendments and changes to clauses in the Plant Improvement Bill, in order to ensure the agreement of Members with the draft. The Parliamentary Legal Adviser assisted with the reading of the Bill, and each clause ...
Small Business Development
Committee Minutes: consideration in vernacular
24 Aug 2016
Members elected an opposition member as acting Chairperson and proceeded to discuss the minutes in their various mother tongues. The Acting Chairperson tried to stop the members from engaging in what he termed a "petty and immature political meme" but the majority of Members would not stop. The Committee secretary ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9B-2015]: President’s reservations; Plant Improvement / Plant Breeders’ Rights Bills: deliberations; Agricultural Research Council nominations, in presence of Minister
23 Aug 2016
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), in the presence of the Minister, updated the Committee on three Bills. The Committee was firstly notified of the President’s reservations on the procedures followed by the NCOP in the passing of the Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill (PAPA) [B 9B-2015]. The ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its Quarter 4 performance
25 May 2016
The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) briefed the Portfolio Committee on its fourth quarter Performance Report 2015/16.A summary of the entire year was shown on a bar graph, which showed that quarter 1 was better than subsequent years. The DG highlighted its 50% female representation achievement at senior management ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on its 3 & 4 Quarter 2015/16 performance
24 May 2016
There was fear that the Land Bank would not be able to cope with the drought due to claims of underfunding though the Industrial Development Corporation had made money available to the entity.
This came out during discussions when the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries presented its third and ...