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Mineral Resources and Energy
Mineral Resources Portfolio Committee Legacy Report
13 Mar 2019
The Committee met to consider and adopt its Legacy Report and the report of the High Level Panel, and Members gave their farewell speeches as the Fifth Parliament closed.
The Chairperson appreciated the immense contributions of Dr Martin Nicol, the Committee Researcher, who presented the Legacy Report based on the ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel Report/ SAHRC recommendations implementation: DMR status report
6 Mar 2019
The Department of Mineral Resources had been asked by the Committee Chairperson to provide a status report about the implementation of the SAHRC and High Level Panel Report recommendations. DMR should inform SAHRC of its reservations about any of the recommendations so that failure to meet the deadlines did not ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources Quarter 2 & 3 performance
27 Feb 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on its second and third quarter performance report for the 2018/2019 financial year.
The report indicated that the expenditure of the DMR as at December 2018 constituted 78% of the total allocated budget of R1 890.7 billion, resulting in ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
SAHRC Report on Mining-affected Communities & DMR response
20 Feb 2019
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) gave a briefing on its Report on the National Hearing on the Underlying Socio-economic Challenges of Mining-affected Communities in South Africa which it released in late 2018.
The SAHRC recommendations covered land (such as land use management and rehabilitation); housing; environment (such as ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel recommendations; Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela community missing billions from mining investments: DMR response
13 Feb 2019
The Department of Mineral Resources presented its responses to the recommendations made by the High Level Panel on Assessment of Key Legislation and Acceleration of Fundamental Change. The recommendations that were a key focus of the discussion were that Section 10 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report: Department response, with Minister
21 Nov 2018
PMG did not attend this meeting. Below is a record of the proceedings as submitted to PMG.
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
One Environmental System colloquium
20 Nov 2018
The Department of Environmental Affairs(DEA), the Department of Mineral Resource (DMR), the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), the Minerals Council South Africa and a professor of law from Witwatersrand University, briefed the Committee on the One Environmental System (OES).
The Chairperson said that the aim of the colloquium was first ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Maledu Constitutional Court judgment & other litigation: lessons learned; with Deputy Minister
14 Nov 2018
The Deputy Minister gave a political overview of the Maledu case. Section 54 of the MRPDA states that a mining right holder should negotiate with the owner or lawful land occupier about compensation where loss will be suffered through mining. Section 55 deals with expropriation when no resolution is reached ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel recommendations for Mineral Resources: Dr Claassens briefing
7 Nov 2018
Dr Aninka Claassens, the High Level Panel chairperson of the working group on land, spoke about the Panel’s recommendations that affected mining. The legacy of apartheid had left its mark by creating spatial inequality and it was in that context that the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) was ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Silicosis & TB Settlement: briefing by both legal teams & Health Department, with Deputy Minister
24 Oct 2018
The Silicosis and TB class action settlement was achieved in May 2018. The legal team for the claimants were represented by Richard Spoor Inc, Abrahams Kiewitz Inc and the Legal Resources Centre. The six gold mining companies involved as the Occupational Lung Disease Working Group were represented by the Head ...