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Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Recent job cuts in mining sector: input on negotiations by Department of Mineral Resources
3 Jun 2015
The Committee staff gave a pre-briefing on trends in employment in the mining sector. There had been a decline in the predominance of gold, due to economic changes and the age of gold mining and depth of mining that was now required to reach gold deposits. Employment in the sector ...
Economic Development
Minister for Economic Development on Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) investment strategy
2 Jun 2015
Minister Ebrahim Patel said that the role of the IDC was important. Without the IDC, the economy would be worse off as the IDC’s level of investment was significant and moreover attracted private sector investments. The IDC used its investment portfolio to generate income to pay its overheads and to ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Regulatory Framework Policy Changes and future of Shale Gas Industry: Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) & Petroleum Agency SA (PASA) briefing
27 May 2015
The Portfolio Committee received a joint briefing from the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the Petroleum Agency of South Africa (Pasa) on the shale gas regulatory framework. The DMR was led by Deputy Minister, who said that in the past 100 years, the country had learned about the environmental ...
Economic Development
Competition Tribunal & International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) on their 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
19 May 2015
The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) gave a presentation to the Committee on its annual performance and strategic plans. It reported that there had been improvements in the internal controls and compliance-related matters over the recent past as evidenced by the clean audit that ITAC had obtained for the 2012/13 ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
State Diamond Trader on beneficiation of diamonds and response to information requested by Committee
13 May 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources was briefed by the State Diamond Trader (SDT) on various issues, dealing mainly with the legal opinion which stated that the SDT had no legal obligation to comply with information disclosure. If the information was given out, then the Committee would have to take ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Committee's Draft Report: Department of Mineral Resources Strategic Plan & Budget adopted
29 Apr 2015
The Committee met to discuss its draft report on the 2015-16 budget and strategic plan of the Department of Mineral Resources, as well as the Committee Programme for the next few months, and the minutes from the last two committee meetings.
Members pointed out several grammatical errors in the report. ...
Economic Development
International Trade Administration Commission, Competition Tribunal & Competition Commission 2015 Strategic Plans
28 Apr 2015
Document awaited: Contributions to Employment Creating Growth through ITAC’s Instruments
The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) made two presentations. The first was on its strategic and annual performance plans covering policy direction; legal frameworks; key strategic objectives performance areas and services; tariff investigations; trade remedy investigations; import and export control ...
Economic Development
Industrial Development Corporation Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
21 Apr 2015
The IDC is going to maximise its impact with existing resources it has to increasingly lead industrial capacity development.
The activities of the IDC are aligned to the programmes of the government that focus on driving increased economic activity in productive sectors and seeking to have a greater impact on ...
Economic Development
Minister of Economic Development on their 2015/16 Strategic Plan
14 Apr 2015
The Committee heard a briefing by the Minister and Deputy Minister of Economic Development on the Department’s Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan.
The Minister spent time outlining the context within which the Department operated before moving on to give details of the three programmes of the Department: Administration; Growth ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Department of Mineral Resources on its Strategic/ Annual Performance Plans 2015/16
18 Mar 2015
The Committee was briefed by the Parliamentary researcher and content advisor on the issues in the 2014 Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR), and by the Auditor General of South Africa and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on the 2015/16Annual Performance Plan of the Department.
The 2014 BRRR had ...