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Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources on job losses agreement, in presence of Minister
2 Mar 2016
The Department of Mineral Resources, with the Minister also present, noted that there had been a declining trend in mining employment dating back to 1986. The employment trends in the mining industry between 1994 and 2014, surveyed for the three commodities of gold, coal and platinum, showed that coal had ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Impact and Response to Current Drought: Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; National Emergent Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; SA Pork Producers’ Organisation & SA Poultry Association briefing
1 Mar 2016
The price of meat was going to go up as a result of the drought. This was the warning that came from meat producers when they briefed Members of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recently about the effects of drought on the meat production sector.
Price hikes ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on 2015/16 2nd & 3rd Quarter performance & impact of SONA on Department, with Minister present
23 Feb 2016
1 million hectares of land is lying idle in the rural communal areas. The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) made this revelation when it was briefing the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on its Second Quarter Performance and Expenditure Report.
Briefing the Committee on its six ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries 2nd Quarter performance: Committee Researcher and AGSA briefings
16 Feb 2016
The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the 2015/16 second quarter performance report of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). It was highlighted that AGSA was not looking into causes of achievement or the quantification of targets but was reporting whether the information was verifiable ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee 1st term programme; Mpumalanga oversight report, minutes adoption
3 Feb 2016
Documents handed out
Draft first term committee programme
Draft Minutes of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources 04 November 2015
The Committee started with a short discussion on some long-standing apologies from certain Committee Members and the Chairperson clarified that the reasons for the apologies needed to be given ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Food Security and Food Safety joint workshop Day 1
2 Feb 2016
The Portfolio Committee On Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries hosted a two-day joint workshop on Food Security and Safety with the Portfolio Committees of Health and Social Development and the Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources. The first day of the workshop focussed on food security. After a presentation by ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Drought impact on agricultural productivity, sector employment and food costs; Department assistance to farmers in drought areas, with Minister & Deputy present
24 Nov 2015
The Minister, Mr Senzeni Zokwana, and the Deputy Minister, Gen Bheki Cele, attended the meeting.
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) reported to the Committee on the current issue of drought facing the country.
In terms of food security status, one in four persons is undernourished today, as ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Performing Animals Protection Amendment Bill [B9-15]: adoption; NAMC nomination process queried
20 Nov 2015
The Committee with the help of the parliamentary legal team and the state law advisors, read through each clause of the Performing Animals Protection Bill before adopting them.
Members raised the following queries/comments: qualifications necessary for a National Licensing Officer; ‘Reasonable opportunity’ was not specified in the Bill which may ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee Report on Mpumalanga oversight visit
4 Nov 2015
Document handed out: Oversight visit to Mpumalanga [Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Committee met briefly to consider the report on the oversight visit to Mpumalanga; and adopt minutes of Committee meeting held on 21 October 2015. Members reviewed the oversight report and pointed ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Eastern Cape oversight visit report: response by MEC, Rural Development & Agrarian Reform Provincial Department & DAFF
3 Nov 2015
The Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform presented responses to the issues and concerns the Portfolio Committee had raised during its oversight visit to the province recently. The Committee also agreed on the set guidelines for the nomination of people to serve on the National Agricultural ...