Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Analysis of Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries & Entities 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans: Committee Support Staff briefing
5 Apr 2016
A budget analysis of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for 2015/16 financial year was carried out by Committee Researchers. Only the first and second quarter of the 2015/16 financial year were included in the analysis. The total budget decreased by R65.8 million between 2015/16 and 2016/17. The private ...
Basic Education
Meeting with visiting New Zealand Parliamentary Delegation
17 Mar 2016
The Portfolio Committees on Basic and Higher Education and Training sat jointly to receive a delegation from New Zealand's Parliament. Officials were present from each of the departments to give a broad background to their functions and work. The Department of Basic Education (DBE) described its sustainable development goals towards ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries response to Committee oversight questions, with Deputy Minister
15 Mar 2016
South Africans need to pray for the budget of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture echoed this when the Department responded to concerns of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on matters that arose from engagements with the Department. The Deputy Minister ...
Basic Education
3-Stream Model; 2nd Chance Matric Programme; Operation Phakisa: Department of Basic Education briefing
15 Mar 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education heard presentations from the Department of Basic Education (DBE) on the 3 Stream Model, the Second Chance Programme and the progress made in implementing information communication technology (ICT) in South African education.
The Department of Basic Education said the new 3 Stream Model was ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
National Schools Sports Championship & 3rd Quarter Performance for 2015/16: Department briefing
8 Mar 2016
Areas of successes and challenges of the National Schools Sports Championship were highlighted in the briefing. Sport and Recreation South Africa had learnt many lessons from the inaugural Championship in 2012 up until the present and had grown the Championship to where it was now. All 16 Priority Codes participated ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Impact and Response to Current Drought: Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; National Emergent Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; SA Pork Producers’ Organisation & SA Poultry Association briefing
1 Mar 2016
The price of meat was going to go up as a result of the drought. This was the warning that came from meat producers when they briefed Members of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recently about the effects of drought on the meat production sector.
Price hikes ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries 2nd Quarter performance: Committee Researcher and AGSA briefings
16 Feb 2016
The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the 2015/16 second quarter performance report of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). It was highlighted that AGSA was not looking into causes of achievement or the quantification of targets but was reporting whether the information was verifiable ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Fishing Rights Allocation Process; Small Scale Fisheries Policy implementation: DAFF update
9 Feb 2016
The Deputy Director-General of Fisheries is the delegated authority in the refusal and granting of fishing rights allocations. She noted that she has excused herself and her officials from invites, dinners, telephone calls and meetings involving fishing rights allocations.
This came to the attention of the Committee when the Department ...
Sport, Arts and Culture
Committee Report on KwaZulu-Natal oversight visit
4 Nov 2015
Document handed out: Committee Report on KwaZulu-Natal oversight visit [Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Committee considered the draft oversight report to the Kwazulu Natal.
Members were unhappy that the Department of Sports and Recreation KZN misled them by taking the Committee to a wrong ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Eastern Cape oversight visit report: response by MEC, Rural Development & Agrarian Reform Provincial Department & DAFF
3 Nov 2015
The Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform presented responses to the issues and concerns the Portfolio Committee had raised during its oversight visit to the province recently. The Committee also agreed on the set guidelines for the nomination of people to serve on the National Agricultural ...