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Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Derelict and Ownerless Mines (including the rehabilitation of asbestos mines): DMRE briefing
17 Nov 2020
Audio: Derelict and Ownerless Mines (including the rehabilitation of asbestos mines): DMRE briefing
The Portfolio Committee met to be briefed by the Department Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) on its progress in dealing with the country’s derelict and ownerless mine sites, and the rehabilitation of asbestos mines. In a virtual ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Oversight visit report to Lily Mine, Optimum Coal Mine and Northam Platinum Mine
11 Nov 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy met virtually to unanimously adopt its report on its three-day oversight visit to Lily and Optimum mine in Mpumalanga, Bortham mine in Limpopo and illegal mining hotspots in Gauteng.
Committee minutes dated 3, 4 and 10 November 2020 ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
DMRE Budgetary Review Recommendation Report
10 Nov 2020
The Committee convened to consider its draft Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR) for Vote 26 & 29) for 2020. The audit process had not yet not been finalised for several entities within the energy portfolio. Members pointed out that considering some of the entities who still have ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SAA Business Rescue Plan: Engagement with Minister, DPE & Business Rescue Practitioners
4 Nov 2020
Video: Standing Committee on Public Accounts, (National Assembly) 04 November 2020 Virtual
SAA Business Rescue Practitioners
15 May 2020 Business rescue plans for SAA: Engagement with Public Enterprises Ministry & Business Rescue Practitioners
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises held a joint virtual ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Department of Mineral Resources & Energy 2019/20 Annual Report
4 Nov 2020
2019/20 Annual Reports
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to be briefed by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy on its 2019/20 Annual Report. The departments presented separately.
For the Department of Mineral Resources, the overall audited performance attained by the Department for the year under review was ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
2019/20 Audit outcomes of DMRE & entities: AGSA briefing
3 Nov 2020
In a virtual meeting, the Auditor-General of South Africa briefed the Committee on the audit outcomes of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy for the 2019/20 financial year, and those of its entities whose Annual Reports had been finalised.
The Annual Reports of five entities, all under the former ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Impact and interventions relating to illegal mining: Harmony Gold briefing
28 Oct 2020
In a virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed by Harmony Gold on the impact of illegal mining on its business, as well as the interventions it had introduced to curb illegal mining activities.
The Committee was told that the illegal mining industry was dominated by foreign nationals. A demographic breakdown ...
Public Enterprises
Denel on financial and governance challenges; with Deputy Minister
21 Oct 2020
The Denel board made a presentation to the Committee on its funding, governance and staff challenges, and indicated that its biggest challenge remained its huge amount of debt and cash flow problems. In a virtual meeting, it reported that it had recorded an unaudited loss of R1.8 billion in the ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng Oversight Visit Report
21 Oct 2020
In a virtual meeting, the Committee convened to consider its oversight report and to address the logistical concerns Members had with the visit to Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and Gauteng. Committee Members welcomed the report.
There was discussion around the Mining Charter; stakeholder engagement between mining companies and the ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Molteno-Indwe coalfield: Council for Geoscience research
20 Oct 2020
The Council for Geoscience updated the Committee on its research project to evaluate the potential of the Molteno-Indwe coal field in the Eastern Cape. Although questions were raised by the Committee Members on the viability of the project, there was consensus that the project was relevant especially in the present ...