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1913 Native Land Act Centenary Workshop with parliamentary committees, MPLs & other stakeholders: day 1
7 Jun 2013
Dr M Motshekga, ANC Chief Whip, re-iterated the majority party's belief that South Africa belonged to all who lived there. Ownership and control was an emotive issue. Land reform was about redressing the wrongs under colonialism and apartheid. This was the responsibility of all South Africans, black and white. Finding ...
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1913 Native Land Act Centenary Workshop with parliamentary committees, MPLs & other stakeholders: day 1
7 Jun 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) said that Dr Mulaudzi had stressed that the plan should not be to revert back to 1913. People should speak for themselves. A constitutional democracy with a Bill of Rights had been introduced in 1994. Twenty years later there were still homelands. There were people who ...
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Geomatics Profession Bill; Department audit compliance; Committee Report on Department Strategic Plan
22 May 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) said that the report and responses from the Department were not helping as they could not even answer simple questions related to disciplinary sanctions.
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Department of Rural Development and Land Reform on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plan with the Minister
15 May 2013
There were apologies from the Director-General: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR), Mr A Trollip (DA), and Mr B Zulu (ANC).
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Ncera Farms (Pty) Ltd Strategic Plan 2013: briefing; Fertilisers and Feeds Bill [B41-2012]: deliberations
14 May 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) re-iterated the CEO’s confirmation that Ncera had no Board, no Turnaround Strategy, no direction for the entity and that there was no objective for it to exist and that the entity was underfunded. Mr Trollip said that the entity was actually ‘overfunded’ because it performed no ...
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Geomatics Profession Bill [B4-2013]: Chief Surveyor-General input; North West consultative public hearings invitation: discussion; Committee's concern at Department's performance
30 Apr 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) said that there was a lot of professional rivalry amongst the geomatics voluntary organisations, but it was not necessarily a bad thing because it was mainly about 'turf'. He suggested that representation in the South African Geomatics Council should be equitable.
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Geomatics Profession Bill [B4-2013]: Public hearings
16 Apr 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) said he heard Mr Marshall’s point that there had not been enough proper consultation during the process of formulating the Bill.
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Rural Development & Land Reform Annual Performance Plan & Ingonyama Trust Board Strategic Plan 2013/4
9 Apr 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) asked what role the CDRP would take outside the 23 wards, and asked how it would assist in achieving Government Outcome 7. He questioned why all the targets focused on 2014, rather than detailing what would be done in 2013.
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Self-Assessment Report for the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform: briefing by the Department of Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation
6 Mar 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) said it was encouraging that the Department was willing to act to as a guinea pig. It was good to have two objective assessments of the Department – the first by SCOPA, which had been presented on 5 March, and this one by the DPME. One ...
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Survey and registration of state-owned land, the creation of a comprehensive land register and the scarce skills training programme: briefing by the Department
27 Feb 2013
Mr A Trollip (DA) recalled that the Director-General and the Deputy Minister were present when the Committee was briefed by the Public Service Commission (PSC) on the finding by the Auditor-General that the audit of State land had not been completed. The information provided in the briefing indicated that much ...
