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DOC&DT and GCIS Budget: Committee Reports
29 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) highlighted the issue of television insurance. He said the Committee may have missed this issue when it engaged with the Department. It was stated in the recommendations of the Report that people needed to pay television licences before they could be provisioned for access ...
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Mine Health and Safety Council on implementation of Covid-19-related safety regulations at mines & Department’s response to any non-compliance by mines
28 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) expressed concern about Microsoft Teams system which was used for the virtual meetings, as it gave him connection problems, and there always seemed to be technical glitches. He suggested that the virtual meetings be held via Zoom, because it was much better than Microsoft ...
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Department of Communications on its revised strategic plan and budget for 2020/21
22 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) said some of the issues he wants to raise are not part of the presentation. He wrote to the Minister on the first issue. While everybody else is revising its budgets to meet COVID-19 challenges, companies such as MultiChoice, the owners of DSTV are ...
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DALRRD 2020/21 Special Adjustments Budget
21 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) noted that he read in a newspaper article that there was a prediction that most of the small wine farms would have to close, which would result in job losses unless they could get international investments. However, it would not be all small wine ...
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GCIS on Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan
10 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) said business is not as bad as the public is made to believe. He welcomed the generous contributions of various companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook. These companies are not obliged to make donations. He said some of the contributions are worth millions ...
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OR Tambo District Municipality on response plan to COVID-19; Suspension of municipal manager
10 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) said that he wished to talk about the director having asked for leave, the suspension of the MM, the invoice of R3 million, and the water tanks.
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DPE on Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan
8 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) said he had asked a question previously to the Department, which was even more relevant in this case. It had a small budget because in its nature it was a small department in terms of staff. How did it hope to exercise oversight over ...
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DPE on Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan
8 Jul 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) complained that he was experiencing feedback from one of the participant’s microphones, and was struggling to hear the presentation.
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Eskom on recovery plan and unbundling progress
3 Jun 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) pointed out that the group CEO of Eskom had assumed a very difficult job. Despite all the criticism and difficulties, whether warranted or unwarranted, Eskom seemed to be coming back to its former glory. He said that this went to show that at some ...
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National Forest Amendment Bill [B11B-2016]: Department briefing
2 Jun 2020
Mr M Nhanha (DA, Eastern Cape) said that Ms Labuschagne had largely covered what he wanted to raise. He wanted to raise a concern about the manner in which an objection by Mr Smit had been handled. He thought that the Members should be considerate, and welcome dissenting views.
