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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
2020 Legislative Programme & court judgments impacting this; Committee Programme; with Minister
11 Feb 2020
The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, assured the Committee that all the legislative proposals would be presented to the Cabinet for consideration. Some of the provisions of these pieces of legislation had been found by the courts to be unconstitutional. The Minister said it would not take ...
NCOP Land Reform, Environment, Mineral Resources and Energy
Agri-Parks provincial progress reports; with Deputy Ministers
29 Oct 2019
Agri-Parks in each province reported on their functionality, budget expenditure, and the number of beneficiaries and jobs created in their province by the programme. All nine provinces were present and eight gave briefings as Gauteng had already done so in a previous meeting. The provincial departments provided detailed status reports ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
AGSA, DPME & FFC briefings; DAFF, DRDLR, CRLR & OVG 2018/19 Annual Reports & 2019/20 Quarter 1 performance; with Minister
8 Oct 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) and its entities for the 2018/19 financial year. The Financial and Fiscal Commission placed the Department’s performance in context with ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Implications of Constitutional Court Judgement on Land Tenure Rights Act, 1991; Legacy Reports; Planned Oversight visit with Deputy Minister
20 Aug 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) on the implications of the Constitutional Court judgment on the Land Tenure Rights Act, which had indicated that a section was unconstitutional. It also considered the legacy reports of the previous Portfolio Committees on Agriculture, Forestry ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Gelukwaards Farm invasion; Committee Reports: Canada Study Tour & MalaMala; Legacy Report; with Deputy Ministers
13 Mar 2019
In the presence of two Deputy Ministers, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) gave a status report on the illegal invasion of the Gelukwaarts Farm Project on the West Coast.
The Gelukwaarts Farm was upgrade by the Department of Agriculture with piggery infrastructure to the value of ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
MalaMala land settlement progress report, with Deputy Ministers
27 Feb 2019
In the presence of the two Deputy Ministers, stakeholders gave a progress report on the MalaMala land settlement including the N’wandlamarhi Communal Property Association (CPA), Mintirho Trust, Mondzo, the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights and Gilfillan Du Plessis Attorneys.
The N’wandlamarhi CPA reported that government purchased MalaMala from the ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
DRDLR structure and staff establishment; with Deputy Ministers
13 Feb 2019
The Committee met to discuss issues surrounding the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform’s (DRDLR’s) organogram and structure, as well as to consider the focus areas for the term that was under review.
The DRDLR’s presentation covered the details of the micro and macro structure of the Department, the ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Elandskloof Communal Property Association: DRDLR update; Annual & Legacy Report; with Deputy Minister
5 Dec 2018
The Committee met with a team from the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) and citizens from the Elandskloof community to discuss the current status of its Communal Property Association (CPA), its challenges and the way forward. It also briefed the Committee on progress on the Elandskloof CPA’s ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Agri-Parks & Blended Funding Model: DRDLR briefing with Minister and Deputy Minister
31 Oct 2018
The Committee received briefings from the Land Bank on the ‘Blended Funding’ model for the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) and from Agri-Parks, which presented its annual report for the 2017/18 financial year. Prior to the commencement of the meeting there was an issue from matters arising ...
Rural Development and Land Reform
Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Bill: adoption
24 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee made a few amendments to the Electronic Deeds Registration Systems Bill and adopted it.
Concerns from the members were on how the registration of the deeds was going to affect the Permission To Occupy (PTO) certificates; the protection of communal rights; and how the process of ...