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Energy Portfolio Committee Legacy Report
19 Mar 2019
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The Committee Secretary briefed the Committee on the contents and recommendations of the Legacy Report. Activities of the Committee included monitoring of electrification challenges; oversight over SoE governance, including the nuclear and Eskom new build programmes, energy policies, renewable energy, electricity and ...
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 ...
Energy
Central Energy Fund 2017/18 Annual Report
12 Mar 2019
2017/18 Annual Report
CEF Group financial sustainability has declined in recent years. The CEF Group is faced with strategic sustainability challenges due to the operational performance of the biggest subsidiary, PetroSA. PetroSA was running out of cheap indigenous feedstock and was in a precarious financial situation. PetroSA continued to lose ...
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 ...
Energy
SA Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA) on its 2017/18 Annual Report
5 Mar 2019
Cabinet approved the appointment of a new NECSA board in December 2018 after the Minister dissolved the previous board. The 2017/18 Annual Report revealed the glaring challenges faced by NECSA. There was a commitment from the board to steer the ship on the right track. The NECSA subsidiary, NTP Radioisotopes, ...
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 ...
Energy
Minister and Department of Energy briefing on 2017/18 Annual Report
26 Feb 2019
The Minister of Energy stated that petroleum export countries under OPEC were impacting liquid fuel prices. Substantial amounts of crude oil were removed from the market, which could lead to petrol and diesel price increases. The bout of load shedding was sending a bad signal to investors and government was ...
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) ...
Energy
Department of Energy audit outcomes: Auditor-General SA briefing
12 Feb 2019
Auditor General SA noted that the audit outcome for the Energy portfolio had worsened versus previous audit periods, in that only two entities had achieved clean audits. The quality of financial statements as well as that of the performance reports had regressed. Irregular expenditure had regressed to R108.2m vs. R92.8 ...