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Higher Education Amendment Bill [B36B-2015]: DHET briefing
17 Aug 2016
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) briefed the Committee on the Higher Education Amendment Bill [B36B-2015]. The Bill provided for a policy framework on the determination of transformation goals for the public higher education system and oversight mechanisms. It also provided for a new institutional type and for ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
MDRA Bill: National House of Traditional Leaders submission & Department response
4 May 2016
The National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) presented its views and proposals on the MPRDA Bill. Notable proposals dealt with the inclusion of traditional rulers in the definition of ‘community,’ definition of ‘member of community,’ and ‘beneficiation’, substitution of ‘labour sending areas’ with ‘preferential employment opportunities’, establishment of an independent ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee Report on Public Works on Budget
19 Apr 2016
The Committee Content Advisor took the Members through the report paragraph by paragraph, pausing where he needed to elaborate on a point or two. Members made minor corrections on the report. As a lot of acronyms were used the Department was urged to create an extra page to explain their ...
Energy
Committee Report on Energy Budget
12 Apr 2016
Relevant documents:
Report of the Portfolio Committee on Energy on the Budget Vote No 26 of the Department of Energy
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Committee adopted Committee Minutes dated the 16 and 23 February, 8 March and 6 March ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Council for the Built Environment, Agrément SA on their 2016 Strategic & Annual Performance plans, Deputy Minister present
7 Apr 2016
Delegations from the Council of the Built Environment and Agrément South Africa presented their 2016/17 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans and budgets, in the presence of the Deputy Minister.
The Council for the Built Environment (CBE) placed great emphasis on its plans for and initiatives taken so far to promote ...
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 ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4B-2015]: consideration
26 Jan 2016
The Committee continued with deliberations on its proposed amendments to the Expropriation Bill. Members were afforded an opportunity to express the views of their political parties on a clause-by-clause basis. The Democratic Alliance was opposed to the definition of “expropriation” claiming that the definition was vague and still required further ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: deliberations, with Deputy Minister
3 Nov 2015
The Committee continued with the deliberation on the official list of proposed amendments to the Bill (A-list) accompanied by the B version of the Bill incorporating all the proposed amendments into the Bill. A UDM MP wanted to know how it was possible to make reference to sections 12 and ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Expropriation Bill [B4-2015]: consideration with Deputy Minister
13 Oct 2015
The Department produced a Working Draft of the Bill that incorporated all the proposed amendments previously made by the Committee. The Deputy Minister indicated that the Department had introduced the definition of “disputing party” in clause 1, which indicated that the “ disputing party includes an owner, holder of an unregistered ...