Ms Mapule Veronica Mafolo

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Mapule Veronica Mafolo

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • 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 ...

  • Telecommunications and Postal Services USAASA progress report on Mpumalanga oversight visit recommendations
    28 Nov 2017

    The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) presented the findings from their oversight visit to the Mpumalanga municipality, which showed there was an issue with the current service providers that the Agency had outsourced to provide connectivity in Mpumalanga. Upon investigation, it had been discovered that the ...

  • Mineral Resources and Energy Lung Diseases on Mines and silicosis class action cases: ex-mineworkers lawyers briefing
    22 Nov 2017

    The Committee received briefings from legal firms involved in the class action cases dealing with lung diseases and silicosis suffered by former miners, as well as submissions from representatives of mining houses, the Chamber of Mines, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the national Department of Health (DoH).   ...

  • Mineral Resources and Energy Allegations against Minister of Mineral Resources: Legal Advisor on way forward
    1 Nov 2017

    Documents Handed Out: Parliamentary Legal Advisor opinion on "leaked emails" issue to Public Enterprises. (Handed out only to Committee Members)

    The main agenda item for the meeting was the further Committee deliberations on media allegations on “state capture” that involved the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, who was supposed to ...

  • Telecommunications and Postal Services Cost to Communicate: Research ICT Africa; Spectrum licensing; Election of Chairperson
    31 Oct 2017

    The Committee was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on the cost to communicate and the spectrum framework in South Africa. The Information Communication and Technology (ICT) uptake and usage showed that in 2015 there were 3 846 332 fixed line subscriptions, 43 666 fixed public phone subscriptions, 72 423 365 ...

  • Mineral Resources and Energy Mine Closure and Rehabilitation: Centre for Environmental Rights briefing
    25 Oct 2017

    The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) on mine closures and rehabilitation and what could be done to address some of the associated problems. The main thrust of the briefing was the failure of mine closure and rehabilitation in SA. The process was poorly managed and resulted in severe problems for ...

  • Mineral Resources and Energy State Capture Allegations: responses by Minister of Mineral Resources
    18 Oct 2017

    The House Chairperson of Committees, Mr Cedric Frolick, had issued a directive to the Committee to summon the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mosebenzi Zwane, to respond to the allegations of State Capture. The Minister was not pleased by this act because he said he has always availed himself to Parliament ...

  • Telecommunications and Postal Services Telecommunications and Postal Services Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
    17 Oct 2017

    The Committee considered and approved the Budgetary Review and Recommendation for the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services.  Members made final editing changes to the document – these were mainly minor consisting of grammatical and spelling errors.
     

  • Mineral Resources and Energy Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
    11 Oct 2017

    The Committee met briefly to consider and adopt the Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report.

    In addition, Members briefly discussed the continued absence of certain Members of the Committee and if this had been followed up with the relevant structures.
     

  • Mineral Resources and Energy Department of Mineral Resources; Mine Health and Safety Council 2016/17 Annual Report, with Auditor-General input
    3 Oct 2017

    Annual Reports 2016/17

    The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources was briefed By the Auditor-General on the audit outcomes of the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) for the 2016/2017 financial year. In addition the Committee was also briefed by the Researcher and Content Advisor on the analysis and content of the ...