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Rural Development and Land Reform
Electronic Deeds Registration Bill; Ingonyama Permission-to-Occupy change to Long-Term Leases & Annual Performance Plan; CPA Bill; Nqancule CPA; DRDLR APP: AGSA review
18 Apr 2018
The Committee received briefings from Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR), Parliamentary Legal Services, the Eastern Cape and North West Province, Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) and the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) in a comprehensive meeting which lasted 11 hours.
Highlights of the meeting was the briefing of ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Restitution Bill, Rama CPA, Riemvasmaak Trust, commonage programmes; with Minister and Deputy Ministers
20 Mar 2018
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform gave a presentation on developments at the Rama Communal Property Association (CPA), the Riemvasmaak Community Trust and the commonage programmes supported by the Department. A progress report on the processing of the Restitution Bill was also presented to the Committee.
The Department ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Ingonyama Trust Board on land conversion to leases
7 Mar 2018
The Committee met with the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR), accompanied by the Minister and Deputy Minister, and the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB), to be briefed on the land conversion to leases. The ITB briefed the Committee on the background to the conversion of Permission To Occupy ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
28 Feb 2018
This was the first meeting since Ms Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was appointed as the new Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform. The Committee welcomed the new Minister although she was absent from the meeting.
They completed the clause by clause deliberations on the Bill starting from Clause 13. The reworked ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill: deliberations; with Minister
14 Feb 2018
The Committee met with the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) to discuss the amendments to the Communal Property Associations (CPA) Amendment Bill. It asked for clarity regarding the use of the words “community”, “labour tenants” and “property”, and phrases such as “public interest” and “disadvantaged communities”. Members ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill: stakeholders’ engagement; with Deputy Minister: day 1
30 Jan 2018
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) came before the Committee to respond to some of the issues that had been raised during the public hearings on the Communal Property Association (CPA) Amendment Bill.
The presentation was a response to the fears expressed by communities on the possibility ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill: Department response to submissions; with Deputy Ministers
22 Nov 2017
The Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) recommended that the Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill be withdrawn and redrafted and that a public debate be held on whether black South Africans should receive land with full ownership rights when they are beneficiaries of land reform processes, including land ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill: concerns raised by stakeholders; with Deputy Minister
1 Nov 2017
Documents handed out: Minutes dated 25 October 2017
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the concerns which had been raised by stakeholders during public hearings over the Communal Property Associations Amendment Bill. The Committee had given the Eastern Cape an opportunity to ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
DRDLR Audit: Auditor-General input; Ingonyama Trust Annual Report, with Minister & Deputy Ministers
3 Oct 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) spoke about expenditure patterns against the targets set in the Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) and its entities. The brief by Commission on Restitution of Land Rights was postponed because Members received the ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Strengthening of Relative Rights for people working land (50/50 Policy) & One Household One Hectare Policies; with Deputy Ministers
7 Jun 2017
The meeting to discuss the policy imperatives on the “One Household One Hectare” and “One Household Two Dairy Cows” initiatives of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) became involved in two other issues – the cost factors hindering the Department’s efforts to communicate with poor rural communities, ...