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Trade, Industry and Competition
Election of Committee Chairperson; Committee Programme
2 Jul 2019
The Committee elected Mr D Nkosi (ANC) to be its Chairperson.
The incoming Committee Chairperson stated that the Committee had its work cut out for it was one of the busiest Committees in parliament.
Members were given a snapshop of what the Draft Programme for the Committee for the rest ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel Report/ SAHRC recommendations implementation: DMR status report
6 Mar 2019
The Department of Mineral Resources had been asked by the Committee Chairperson to provide a status report about the implementation of the SAHRC and High Level Panel Report recommendations. DMR should inform SAHRC of its reservations about any of the recommendations so that failure to meet the deadlines did not ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources Quarter 2 & 3 performance
27 Feb 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on its second and third quarter performance report for the 2018/2019 financial year.
The report indicated that the expenditure of the DMR as at December 2018 constituted 78% of the total allocated budget of R1 890.7 billion, resulting in ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel recommendations; Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela community missing billions from mining investments: DMR response
13 Feb 2019
The Department of Mineral Resources presented its responses to the recommendations made by the High Level Panel on Assessment of Key Legislation and Acceleration of Fundamental Change. The recommendations that were a key focus of the discussion were that Section 10 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel recommendations for Mineral Resources: Dr Claassens briefing
7 Nov 2018
Dr Aninka Claassens, the High Level Panel chairperson of the working group on land, spoke about the Panel’s recommendations that affected mining. The legacy of apartheid had left its mark by creating spatial inequality and it was in that context that the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) was ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Silicosis & TB Settlement: briefing by both legal teams & Health Department, with Deputy Minister
24 Oct 2018
The Silicosis and TB class action settlement was achieved in May 2018. The legal team for the claimants were represented by Richard Spoor Inc, Abrahams Kiewitz Inc and the Legal Resources Centre. The six gold mining companies involved as the Occupational Lung Disease Working Group were represented by the Head ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee discussed and approved its report (with amendments) on the Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report.
The Committee focused on the Observations ad Recommendations sections in the report.
Members highlighted that women are an integral part of the mining industry and ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources; Mine Health & Safety Council 2017/18 Annual Report, with AGSA input
9 Oct 2018
Annual Reports 2017/18
Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) noted that DMR and its entities had all received unqualified audits. Mintek and MHSC were the only two entities that had received clean audits while all the others had unqualified audits with findings. Mintek had consistently received clean audits over the last four ...