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Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources budget and performance plans 2016: Financial & Fiscal Commission, Department Planning Monitoring & Evaluation assessment
16 Mar 2016
The Chairperson expressed his condolences and prayers to the families of the trapped miners at the Lily Mine. The Committee received briefings from the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC), the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) and the Committee Researcher giving an analysis and commentary on the Annual Performance ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Limpopo oversight report
9 Mar 2016
Documents handed out:
Draft minutes of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources dated 02 March 2016.
Draft oversight visit report to Limpopo of the Portfolio Committees on Women in presidency, Land Reform and Rural Development and Mineral Resources dated 14th-18th September 2015.
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports ...
Energy
National Energy Regulator of SA on its decision on Eskom’s Regulatory Clearing Account application for 1st year of 3rd Multi-Year Price Determination
8 Mar 2016
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) highlighted the important issues regarding its decision on Eskom’s Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) application for the 2013/2014 financial year, explaining the conditions of RCA applications and the reason for multi-year price determinations (MYPDs). It illustrated the MYPD process – Eskom’s applications and ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources on job losses agreement, in presence of Minister
2 Mar 2016
The Department of Mineral Resources, with the Minister also present, noted that there had been a declining trend in mining employment dating back to 1986. The employment trends in the mining industry between 1994 and 2014, surveyed for the three commodities of gold, coal and platinum, showed that coal had ...
Energy
Minister of Energy on impact of 2016 State of Nation Address on the Energy mandate
23 Feb 2016
The Minister of Energy made it very clear that the R1 trillion figure being speculated in the media as the cost of the nuclear energy programme proposed by government, was not a figure derived from her office and she emphasised that the government had not signed a nuclear deal with ...
Energy
Department Response to 2014 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report, with Minister and Deputy present
16 Feb 2016
Energy Budgetary Review and Recommendations report
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Department of Energy gave its response to the Committee’s 2014/15 Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). There were a total of 31 recommendations made by the Portfolio Committee and the Department provided corresponding responses to each ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit
4 Nov 2015
Document handed out: Oversight visit to Mpumalanga [Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Committee met briefly to consider the report on the oversight visit to Mpumalanga; and adopt minutes of Committee meeting held on 21 October 2015. Members reviewed the oversight report and pointed ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Alignment with Industrial Policy Action Plan 6 (IPAP6): DMR briefing, New Development Plan with regards to beneficiation: DTI briefing
21 Oct 2015
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), briefed the Committee on the alignment of the beneficiation activities located in the DMR with other programmes of government. In 2011, the beneficiation strategy had been adopted by government as policy, and it had provided a broader framework aimed at turning the country’s comparative ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mineral Resources Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
BRRR Archive: BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The report presented for adoption was a summary of the various observations of the Portfolio Committee and the corresponding recommendations to all the issues noticed by the Committee in the course of carrying out its oversight function.
The Committee was not ...
Energy
Energy Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Portfolio Committee on considered the Committee’s draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR), with the Minister of Energy, Ms Tina Joemat-Pettersson in attendance.
Some recommendations discussed by Members were: fragmentation of the energy sector and the fact that regulation on petroleum (Minerals ...