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Oversight visit report to Lily Mine, Optimum Coal Mine and Northam Platinum Mine
11 Nov 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy met virtually to unanimously adopt its report on its three-day oversight visit to Lily and Optimum mine in Mpumalanga, Bortham mine in Limpopo and illegal mining hotspots in Gauteng.
Committee minutes dated 3, 4 and 10 November 2020 ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
DMRE Budgetary Review Recommendation Report
10 Nov 2020
The Committee convened to consider its draft Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) for Vote 26 & 29) for 2020. The audit process had not yet not been finalised for several entities within the energy portfolio. Members pointed out that considering some of the entities who still have ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources & Energy 2019/20 Annual Report
4 Nov 2020
2019/20 Annual Reports
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to be briefed by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy on its 2019/20 Annual Report. The departments presented separately.
For the Department of Mineral Resources, the overall audited performance attained by the Department for the year under review was ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
2019/20 Audit outcomes of DMRE & entities: AGSA briefing
3 Nov 2020
In a virtual meeting, the Auditor-General of South Africa briefed the Committee on the audit outcomes of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy for the 2019/20 financial year, and those of its entities whose Annual Reports had been finalised.
The Annual Reports of five entities, all under the former ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Impact and interventions relating to illegal mining: Harmony Gold briefing
28 Oct 2020
In a virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed by Harmony Gold on the impact of illegal mining on its business, as well as the interventions it had introduced to curb illegal mining activities.
The Committee was told that the illegal mining industry was dominated by foreign nationals. A demographic breakdown ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng Oversight Visit Report
21 Oct 2020
In a virtual meeting, the Committee convened to consider its oversight report and to address the logistical concerns Members had with the visit to Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and Gauteng. Committee Members welcomed the report.
There was discussion around the Mining Charter; stakeholder engagement between mining companies and the ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Molteno-Indwe coalfield: Council for Geoscience research
20 Oct 2020
The Council for Geoscience updated the Committee on its research project to evaluate the potential of the Molteno-Indwe coal field in the Eastern Cape. Although questions were raised by the Committee Members on the viability of the project, there was consensus that the project was relevant especially in the present ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Solar Water Heater programme: DMRE briefing
14 Oct 2020
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy updated the Portfolio Committee on progress made on its solar water heater programme. Technical feasibility assessments had been completed in 15 out of the 18 participating municipalities and 61 096 out of 87 000 of the geyser units had been delivered to them. ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Agreement between RSA & European Atomic Energy Community for Co-operation on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy: follow-up meeting
13 Oct 2020
10 Jun 2020 |
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on a virtual platform to discuss the adoption of an agreement between the Republic of South Africa ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
DMRE Quarter performance & legislative programme for 2020/21; IEMO Bill: Committee Report
2 Sep 2020
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy briefed the Committee on its second, third, and fourth quarter performance report for 2019/20 in a virtual meeting. The Department presented the comparative performance and performance highlights of the former Departments of Energy (DOE) and Mineral Resources (DMR) separately, as ...