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Water and Sanitation
Overberg & Mhlatuze Water Board briefing on governance challenges, with Deputy Minister
14 Jun 2017
The meeting was called to discuss management and governance challenges at the Overberg and Mhlathuze Water Boards, but was coupled with the Director General (DG) of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) having to explain his failure to appear before the Committee at the previous meeting. In the event, ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Nationally Determined Contribution & Air Quality, with Minister
13 Jun 2017
The Department of Environment Affairs (DEA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs on South Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and air quality. The Minister had communicated that the report on Minimum Emission Standards (MES) for Vaal Priority Areas was outstanding and the presentation will be postponed.
Ms Edna Molewa, ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
SA Weather Service: Tariff Regulation; Former CEO contract termination
7 Jun 2017
The Portfolio Committee held a meeting with the South African Weather Service (SAWS) to obtain feedback on why the members of its board should not be held responsible for eight months’ salary paid to the entity’s former Chief Executive Officer, and to receive a briefing from the Regulating Committee for ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Water Affairs: hearing 2
31 May 2017
SCOPA had arranged the hearing with Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) as a follow-up to an unsatisfactory hearing in November 2016. In addition to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, the DWS accruals and commitments were added to the agenda. As it turned out, Committee came close to declaring the ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
“One Environmental System” & Wildlife crimes legislation review
30 May 2017
The Committee on Environmental Affairs met to be updated on the implementation of the “One Environmental System” by the Inter-Departmental Project Implementation Committee (IPIC) from the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA). In addition, the Committee also received a briefing from the DEA, the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee Report on Water and Sanitation Budget
24 May 2017
The Committee met with officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation, to consider and adopt its report on the 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan (APP) and Budget of the Department and entities supporting the work of the Department. During consideration of the report, the Committee was concerned it was adopting ...
Water and Sanitation
DWS on its Budget; Construction Unit; Water Trading Entity & Bucket Eradication Programme, with Deputy Minister
23 May 2017
The Department of Water and Sanitation owed its contractors a whopping R1.5 billion. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) revealed this when it was briefing the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation on issues related to its budget, the Bucket Eradication Programme (BEP), and the Water Trading Entity (WTE). ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Rhino Integrated Management Systems; Rhino Horn Trade Constitutional Court Judgment
23 May 2017
The outcome of the lengthy meeting between the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and the Portfolio Committee of the Constitutional Court judgment on the lifting of the moratorium on the trade in rhino horn, and the appeal that the DEA had lost -- at a cost to taxpayers of R1.5 ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Committee Report on Environmental Affairs Budget
18 May 2017
The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt the Report approving the Department of Environmental Affairs Budget Vote. Members made minor changes and suggested that the report should include a timeframe that was given by the Committee to the Board of South African Weather Service on the payment for the ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan, AGSA input; Committee Report on Water and Sanitation Budget
17 May 2017
The Office of the Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) presented a report on the review of the 2017/18 Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). The report focused mainly on the significant programmes of the Department, and excluded the water boards and Section 4(3) audits. ...