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Mineral Resources and Energy
Committee report on Gauteng oversight
8 Nov 2017
The main agenda items for the meeting contained two issues - the Committee report on its oversight visit to Gauteng and the response from the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) regarding the Minister’s availability to respond to the Committee on the Allegations of State Capture.
The Gauteng oversight visit was ...
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 ...
Health
Committee Reports on Mental Health & National Health Laboratory Services oversight
25 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt its report the Committee’s report on the presentations made to it by seven Provincial Departments of Health: Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State, Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. It also adopted its report on the oversight visit made by ...
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 ...
Health
Health Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
18 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Health met to adopt its Draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) which covered the Department of Health and its entities. Members raised a number of grammatical amendments and changes to be effected to editing of the Report. There was discussion on sources of information in ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
CGS, Mintek, State Diamond Trader & SADPMR 2016/17 Annual Report
4 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources was briefed by the Council for Geoscience (CGS), Mintek, the State Diamond Trader (SDT) and the South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator (SADPMR) on their annual reports for the 2016/2017 financial year.
The SADPMR had received an unqualified audit. Areas ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Job losses: Department of Mineral Resources briefing; Committee Reports
6 Sep 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on the crises created by job losses. The briefing included interventions used by the Department to curb job losses in the mineral resources sector, impact of the Labour Act, status of the mining industry, impact of mining on employment ...
Police
Illegal Mining: Hawks & Department of Mineral Resources briefing
25 Aug 2017
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) reported that illegal mining incidents occur on both the East and West Rand of Gauteng, with most incidents occurring at the Grootvlei, Anglo-Gold Ashanti, Sibanye and Kusasalethu gold mines, as well as in the Roodepoort, Benoni and Florida areas. In Kwazulu-Natal, illegal gold ...
Health
KZN State of Health Services: SAHRC briefing
23 Aug 2017
The SA Human Rights Commission presented its “KZN Oncology” Report to the Committee following a complaint from Dr Imraan Keeka, Democratic Alliance Member of the KZN Provincial Legislature. The complaint was based on lack of health care services to oncology patients in the KZN province. Following investigation, the Commission established ...
Health
NHLS Amendment Bill & National Public Health Institute of SA Bill: Department response to submissions
22 Aug 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Health was briefed by the Department of Health (DoH) on issues that had been raised by stakeholders during the public hearings on the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) Amendment Bill [B15-2017] and National Public Health Institute of South Africa (NAPHISA) Bill [B16-2017].
The DoH said the ...