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Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs 2nd & 3rd Quarter 2015/16 performance (continuation); Analysis of State of the Nation Address: briefing
1 Mar 2016
The Committee met with the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) to complete its presentation on the performance of quarter three for three programmes, namely, Climate Change and Air Quality, Biodiversity and Conservation and Chemicals and Waste Management. The presentation covered the performance indicators, status of second and third quarter targets ...
Water and Sanitation
Rand Water, Mhlatuze Water Boards on 2014/15 Annual Report; Deputy Minister present
24 Feb 2016
Rand Water and Mhlathuze Water, with the Deputy Minister also present for the first part of the meeting, briefed the Committee on their Annual Reports for 2014/15. Both Boards received a clean audit. Rand Water informed the Committee that an increase of tariffs may be crucial as it has to ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Title deeds backlog; One Learner-One Estate Agent programme by Estate Agency Affairs Board; NHBRC transformation strategy
27 Oct 2015
At the outset, the Chairperson noted that the presentation by the Financial and Fiscal Commission had been postponed to a later date. The Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB) and the Department of Human Settlements firstly briefed the Committee on the One-Learner, One Estate Agent programme. This was set up as ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Human Settlements Budget Review Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
BRRR Archive: BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) Report was adopted.
Minutes of Committee meetings held on 13 October 2015 at 9:00; 13 October 2015 at 14:00; and 14 October 2015, were adopted without amendment.
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Committee Report on South Africa’s negotiating position for UN Convention on Climate Change COP21
20 Oct 2015
(Documents handed out: Draft report of the Portfolio Committee on Environmental affairs on the public hearings on South Africa’s proposed climate change negotiating position towards the United Nations Convention on Climate Change COP21, in Paris, France, from 30 November to 11 December 2015, dated 20 October 2015 [available once published on ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
NHBRC, SHRA, HDA, NHFC, RHLF, EAAB, NURCHA, and CSOS on their 2014/15 Annual Reports
14 Oct 2015
Six entities of the Department of Human Settlements briefed the Committee on their annual reports for the 2014/15 financial year. The entities were the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC), the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA), the Housing Development Agency (HDA), the Estate Agency Affairs Board (EAAB), the National Urban ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs & SANBI on their 2014/15 Annual Reports; Fourth Term Programme, 2015
13 Oct 2015
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the 2014/15 audit outcomes of the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and its entities. It said the departments had done well but needed to improve on their information technology (IT) services, though there were some misstatements in the annual ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Distressed mining towns: Inter-Ministerial Committee update; Department of Human Settlements 1st quarter 2015/16 performance
8 Sep 2015
The Department of Human Settlement presented their first quarter report. They had achieved 43% of their targets and spent 18% of their allocated budget. The low expenditure was mainly because of the high vacancy rate. Their main challenge was a lack of technical and operational capacity hindering their monitoring function ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Justice and Correctional Services & National Prosecutors Authority: briefing (closed meeting)
2 Sep 2015
PMG was not present at the meeting. It was a closed session.
Water and Sanitation
Prosecution of polluters and vandals of infrastructure: Department of Water & Sanitation & SAPS briefing, with Deputy Minister present
1 Sep 2015
The Committee was briefed on the approach being adopted by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to deal with polluters and vandals of the country’s water infrastructure.
The SAPS had investigated 53 cases of vandalism, and 53 suspects had been arrested and ...