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NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee Business
8 Nov 2022
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environmental Affairs was supposed to brief the Select Committee today. Unfortunately, the senior officials, Minister and the Deputy Minister are attending COP17 in Egypt. The Committee dealt with is internal business instead.
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Briefing by South African Post Office (SAPO) on the turnaround plan; with Deputy Minister
2 Nov 2022
The South African Post Office (SAPO) briefed the Committee on the entity’s severe financial distress, factors contributing to overall non-performance, and a contingency plan to improve the position.
The Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies gave an overview of the SAPO’s problems. He said he believed in the ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Sectional Titles Amendment Bill: final mandates; Northern Cape Oversight Visit Report
11 Oct 2022
The Select Committee convened a virtual meeting to submit their final mandates on the Sectional Titles Amendment Bill [B31B-2020]. All nine provinces supported the Sectional Titles Amendment Bill with no amendments. The Committee approved its report on the Bill which would be referred to the National Council of Provinces. ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Sectional Titles Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
30 Aug 2022
The Select Committee met on a virtual platform to discuss the provincial negotiating mandates on the Sectional Titles Amendment Bill [B31B-2020]. The provinces had to conduct public hearings because it was a section 76 Bill. There were proposed amendments from KZN, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West. The Department of Agriculture, ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Transnet on measures to expand capacity, internal and SIU investigations; with Deputy Minister
3 Aug 2022
Transnet briefed the Select Committee in a virtual meeting on the measures being taken to meet the market demand for freight ports, and also provided an update on the investigations into the alleged misconduct by Transnet employees.
On the measures being taken to meet market demands, Transnet reported that ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Alexkor & Richtersveld Community Deed of Settlement progress report
8 Jun 2022
The Select Committee convened on a virtual platform for an update on the stabilising of the Community Property Association (CPA) by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) and for the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) and Alexkor progress report on implementation of the eight obligations ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
DCDT on migrating schedule from analogue to the digital and the availability and distribution of set-top boxes to indigent households
1 Jun 2022
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies briefed the Committee on the Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) programme, which entailed migrating the country from analogue to digital broadcasting and distributing set-top boxes to indigent households.
On 28 March 2022, the Gauteng High Court passed judgement setting out 507 251 households ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Final Acts of ITU WRC ratification; Chairperson election; with Deputy Minister
25 May 2022
The Select Committee met on a virtual platform with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) for a briefing on the Final Acts of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference of 2019.
Committee Members asked if this international agreement ensures an increase in the number of female ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Small-scale commercial fishery sector & aquaculture development; with Minister
24 May 2022
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment briefed the Select Committee on the Department’s position regarding establishment of a small-scale commercial fishery sector. The meeting took place on a virtual platform.
The Small-Scale Fisheries Policy (SSFP) was developed as a response to an Equality Court order in 2007. The ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
AfCFTA market expansion for domestic production; Sectional Titles A/B: tagging
17 May 2022
The Select Committee met virtually with the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development for a report back on how the Department was ensuring that the operationalisation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) expands markets for domestic production, particularly produce from inland provinces ...
NCOP Public Enterprises and Communication
Postponed: Unbundling of Postbank from SAPO: DCDT briefing
16 Mar 2022
The Committee was supposed to be briefed in a virtual meeting by the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) on the unbundling of Postbank from the South African Post Office. However, it agreed to reschedule the meeting because the Minister was not present owing to a miscommunication between the ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom mid-term results and update on unbundling and security of electricity supply; with Deputy Minister
23 Feb 2022
In a virtual meeting, Eskom briefed a joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises and Select Committee on Public Enterprises and Communications, on its mid-term results, and gave an update on the unbundling of the entity and the security of electricity supply.
The Deputy Minister said that ...