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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Portfolio Committee Legacy Report
19 Mar 2019
Available here once published: Legacy Reports
The Committee reviewed its Legacy Report on activities undertaken during the Fifth Parliament in preparation for adoption. It was noted that although it had dealt with a number of issues over the past term, the implementation of the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF), although ...
Health
National Public Health Institute Bill: finalisation; High Level Panel & Legacy Reports
13 Mar 2019
The Committee held a briefing on the National Public Health Institute Bill. Members requested that the function of the NAPHISA Bill be extended to state that the Bill must support the monitoring of communities that are at risk of being exposed to environmental health hazards. Members also requested that the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Food Security Policy & Food Control Agency; Poultry Industry; Marine Living Resources Fund; FRAP 2013 forensic reports; conditional grants; with Minister
12 Mar 2019
The Portfolio Committee was told by the Department of Agriculture. Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) that 10.4% of the 16.1 million households in South Africa were still facing hunger. The Department of Health had conducted a survey which showed the country faced a challenge of an increase in teenage ...
Health
Committee Minutes
27 Feb 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Health considered and adopted 15 sets of minutes dating as far back as May 2018. Most were approved with no changes and a few with minor ones.
Members commented that it has been a long time since the meetings and that was making it difficult for ...
Health
Committee Report on Cuba study tour
20 Feb 2019
The Committee discussed and amended their Report on the oversight visit to Cuba from 1 October to 5 October 2018. The purpose of the short visit was to see how South Africa could learn from Cuba in terms of their Primary Health Care system.
A substantial amount of time was ...
Health
National Health Laboratory Services Amendment Bill: adoption
13 Feb 2019
The amendments to the National Health Laboratory Service Amendment Bill (NHLS) by the Select Committee on Social Services were discussed.
Members mainly discussed amendments to Clauses five, six, nine and 15 which were concerned with provincial representation technicalities, dissolution of the Board and the appointment of the Board and Laboratory ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
State of Nation Address 2019 impact on Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries; with Minister
12 Feb 2019
The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries gave a brief introduction saying that exports have grown by 7%. But what is worrying is that imports still remain high and they need to be looking at exports substitution. The recent crop estimation was not a bad one but features of climate ...
Health
Nursing colleges reopening & curriculum
5 Dec 2018
The Committee was briefed by the National Department of Health (NDoH) on its state of readiness to implement the new nursing curriculum and training programmes in 2020. Pertinent issues raised included the progress made by the Department in rolling out the new curriculum, and how it intended to address the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agriculture job creation plans for President’s economic stimulus package; with Deputy Minister
27 Nov 2018
Statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on economic stimulus and recovery plan
The Portfolio Committee learnt that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was strongly involved in support of the agro-processing cluster to promote growth in the sector, but needed more support from other government departments such as the Department ...
Health
High Level Panel recommendations: Minister of Health briefing
21 Nov 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.