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Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources & Mine Health and Safety Council Annual Performance Plan
18 Apr 2018
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC) briefed the Committee on their Annual Performance Plans (APP) and budget for the 2018/19 financial year. The Committee was first briefed by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) on its interim review of the final draft of the ...
Economic Development
Competition Commission & Competition Tribunal & IDC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
17 Apr 2018
The Industrial Development Corporation, the Competition Commission and the Competition Tribunal presented their Annual Performance Plans for the 2018/19 financial year.
The Industrial Development Corporation had developed many focus areas for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. Those included increasing industrial development, maintaining the corporation’s financial sustainability, capitalising on the Rest ...
Economic Development
Department Economic Development & ITAC 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister
27 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development outlined the mandate of the Department, which was to align the plans of all the national departments to the National Development Plan and National Growth Path to ensure that the country experienced growth in both the economy and the number of jobs created. He described ...
Economic Development
Economic Development Department on Quarter 3 performance; with Minister and Deputy Minister
14 Mar 2018
The Minister of Economic Development provided the Committee with an overview of the economy from the Department’s perspective, before providing details of its performance during the third quarter of the current financial year.
The gross domestic product (GDP) in the quarter had shown an increase of 3.1% compared to the ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Terms of Reference on State Capture allegations involving former Minister of Mineral Resources
14 Mar 2018
Documents Handed Out: Preliminary Draft Terms of Reference [available under Tabled Committee report once adopted]
This meeting was called following a resolution by the Committee on 21 February 2018 to institute an inquiry to probe the role of the former Minister of Mineral Resources Mr Mosebenzi Zwane in allegations of ...
Economic Development
Impact of industrial strategy on SMME development: Industrial Development Corporation briefing
13 Mar 2018
The Industrial Development Corporation briefed the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development on the impact of its programmes on the Small Medium and Micro and Enterprises, while the Committee, on the other hand, is to assess if the policies in place are directed to where they are needed most.
The entity ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Optimum Mine: Minister, DMR, NUM & business rescue progress reports
7 Mar 2018
This was a follow up meeting with the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) to discuss the industrial action, non-payment of workers’ salaries and the placing of Optimum Coal Mine under business rescue. At the previous meeting, the Committee had expressed dissatisfaction with the low-level DMR delegation attending the meeting who ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Optimum Coal Mine latest developments
28 Feb 2018
This meeting was called upon the request of the National Union of Mine Workers - Optimum Mine branch. There was a strike at Optimum Coal Mine in Mpumalanga following the failure of the mine to pay the workers’ salaries. The management at Optimum Mine declined the invitation to attend the ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Non-attendance by Minister of Mineral Resources; Decision on Inquiry into state capture
21 Feb 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Minerals Resources met in order to question the Minister of Mineral Resources about his possible involvement in State Capture. However, two days previously the Chairperson had received a letter stating that the Minister would be unavailable to appear before the Committee. In response to the Chairperson’s ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
State Capture: way forward; Mine lung diseases & silicosis class action cases: political intervention
29 Nov 2017
The Department of Mineral Resources, led by the Deputy Minister, briefed the Committee on the political interventions on the mine lung diseases and silicosis class action cases.
The Deputy Minister said South Africa was a strong mining country, but mining had also been damaging to the environment and had left ...