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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Presidential Advisory Panel Report on Land Reform and Agriculture & Implementation of SPLUMA: briefing, with Deputy Minister
10 Mar 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform was briefed on the Advisory Panel Report on land reform and agriculture and on the implementation of Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA).
Pertaining to the recommendations of the advisory panel, the Committee heard that the Department reported ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
SONA: Department response; Presidential Stimulus Package & district-based model for service delivery; CRLR on told order claims and Project Kuyasa: follow-up
3 Mar 2020
Department response to SONA, Presidential Stimulus Package & district-based model for service delivery
President Cyril Ramaphosa: 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA)
District Model for Service Delivery
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) provided responses to comments and questions from the Portfolio Committee on aspects ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DALRRD 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance; Implementation of Audit Improvement Plan: DRDLR; CRLR & OVG
26 Feb 2020
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) presented on its second quarter performance, and revealed that it had not achieved most of its targets. It reported that the strategic objectives of its Programme 5 (Land Reform) were to promote equitable land redistribution and agricultural development, and provide comprehensive ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DALRRD 2019/20 Quarter 2 performance; Implementation of Audit Improvement Plan: DAFF; ITB & ARC
25 Feb 2020
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) said it had received a qualified audit opinion from the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) for the 2018/19 financial year. The basis for the opinion was that AGSA had not found a record of the disposal of the Department’s biological assets ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Department response to SONA, Presidential Stimulus Package & district-based model for service delivery, with Deputy Minister
18 Feb 2020
The Committee was briefed on the Department’s response to the Presidents’ SONA, the Stimulus Package Update Report and the District Development Model (DDM). At the outset the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) stated that it was in the process of developing an allocation plan for the ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAFF 2019/20 Quarter 1 performance; ARC on Audit improvement plan & progress
19 Nov 2019
The former Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reflected on its performance during the first quarter of 2019/20.
The Department reported there were 42 targets planned for Quarter 1, and 36 targets were achieved. This, therefore, translated into 86% achievement during submission of the validated report to DPME by end ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Themes Emerging from Land Dialogue workshop
13 Nov 2019
Parliament: Section 25 process
Parliament's Legal Services provided a briefing on themes emerging from the Land Dialogue workshop in the Committee's previous meeting. The briefing noted that the Committee should take international treaties to which South Africa is a signatory into consideration when amending section 25. However, this does not ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
NARYSEC programme and mandate: Department briefing; KZN Oversight Visit Report
12 Nov 2019
The Committee was supposed to receive a briefing from the Ingonyama Trust. However, the Minister had written to the Chairperson requesting a postponement. The Committee re-organised its programme and instead received a briefing from the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform on the National Rural Youth Service Corps ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agri-Parks progress report
22 Oct 2019
The concept of Agri-Parks has not been abandoned, but the mistake was on deviating from the systematic approach that was adopted when the Agri-Parks policy was developed.
This became clear during the engagement between the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform and the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development Budgetary Review & Recommendations Report
16 Oct 2019
Available here once adopted: BRRR 2019
The Committee met to consider and adopt the draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report for the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development.
Members were generally satisfied with the report. There was consensus that departments needed to stand on their own and ...