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Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
“One Environmental System” state of readiness; Mine Closure Financial Provisioning Regulations
14 Feb 2017
The Financial Provisioning Regulations which were published for implementation in November 2015, are to ensure that the state is not going to be liable for the rehabilitation of mines and to ensure that mining companies do a rehabilitation assessment every year. The Regulations make provision for the costs associated with ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Update on Lily Mine Rescue: briefing by Business Rescue Practitioner
8 Feb 2017
The Committee met to be briefed on the progress made in relation to the disaster that occurred on 5 February 2016, when three of the mine employees were trapped underground at the Lily Mine.
In February 2016, the mine rescue had attempted three times to retrieve the container using different ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs on its 2015/16 Annual Report
24 Jan 2017
The was briefed on the 2015/16 audit outcomes for the Department of Environmental Affairs which received an unqualified audit opinion. The delay in the finalisation of the audit was because DEA accounted for funds to agents as transfers while Treasury said it should be expenditure. The South African National Biodiversity ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Donation of high value species to private individuals: North West Department responses
23 Jan 2017
READ - Response document (Annexures to follow)
The Committee considered the responses to follow-up questions it asked the North West Department of Rural Environment and Agricultural Development (READ) about its donation of high value wildlife animals to private individuals. The Committee frowned upon the role of the READ spokesperson who ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Mining Indaba 2017; Mineral Investment Promotion; Lily Mine disaster update: Deputy Minister and Chamber of Mines briefings
7 Dec 2016
The Committee heard from the Department of Mineral Resources led by Deputy Minister, Godfrey Oliphant, and from the Chamber of Mines. The Chamber of Mines presented its programmes for promoting the mining industry in South Africa. It noted that notwithstanding general losses, the mining industry made a substantial economic contribution ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Social and Labour Plans: Centre for Applied Legal Studies briefing
30 Nov 2016
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), based at the University of the Witwatersrand, which introduced itself as a civil society organisation and a registered law clinic. Its vision was for a socially, economically and politically just society. It practiced human rights and social ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
North West Department donation of high value species to private individuals: oversight responses
29 Nov 2016
The meeting had been convened because the Committee had found that the North West Parks Board (NWPB) had not followed due process in donating a large quantity of game to individuals in the North West Province. In addition, when the Committee had requested a report from the office of the ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Minister on Deputy Director General appointment; ‘Polluter pay’ principle; Financial Provisioning regulations implementation
23 Nov 2016
The Minister responded to media reports about his appointment of the Deputy Director General for Mineral Regulation, responsible for granting and rescinding mining licences, in the department.
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) then presented on the implementation of the ‘polluter pays’ principle, and said that it is in consultation ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Combatting Illegal mining: Department of Mineral Resources briefing, in presence of Minister
9 Nov 2016
At the start of the meeting, Mr J Lorimer (DA) presented the Chairperson with a letter that he had drafted, expressing concerns about the possible irregular appointment, by the Minister of Mineral Resources, of an official to the Department of Mineral Resources. The content and motivation behind this was discussed ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Antarctica and Extended Continental Shelf; Working on Fire deployment in Canada
8 Nov 2016
The South African programme on Antarctica involves the Department of Environment, the Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Public Works, the Department of Defence, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, tertiary Institutions, and the National Research Foundation. However, South Africa has no comprehensive National Antarctic Strategy and ...