2018-w3101 - 16 November 2018

Mmusi Aloysias Maimane to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:

Whether, since he served in Cabinet, he (a)(i) was ever influenced by any person and/or (ii) influenced any of his department’s employees to take any official administrative action on behalf of any (aa) member, (bb) employee and/or (cc) close associate of the Gupta family and/or (b) attended any meeting where any of the specified persons were present; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?

Reply from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: on 16 Nov 2018

  1. Minister has never been –

(a)(i) Influenced by any person; nor has

(a)(ii) Minister ever influenced any member of staff in his department to take any official administrative action on behalf of any –

(aa) member;

(bb) employee; and/or

(cc) a close associate of the Gupta family.

 

(b) Minister has never attended any meeting where any of the specified persons were present.

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2018-w265 - 09 March 2018

Xalisa, Mr Z R to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries:

1) How many State Forests have been leased out to Rance Timber in the Eastern Cape? What are the names of these forests? How long the lease agreements and what are the duties and responsibilities of both the department and Rance with regards to these lease agreements?

Reply from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: on 9 Mar 2018

The Amathole Forestry Company (AFC) under Rance Timber Holdings is one of the four companies that have leased land from government. These were concluded during the privatisation of forestry assets by government as led by the Department of Public Enterprises. The lease agreement between DAFF and AFC is a minimum of 70 years based on the average rotation of a plantation, which ranges between ...

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