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Land Reform and Rural Development
Ingonyama Trust Board & CRLR on their 2016 Strategic Plans; Analysis of Department’s performance: briefing by DPME & AGSA, with Deputy Speaker & Deputy Minister
6 Apr 2016
The Minister and one of the Deputy Minister's ( Mr Mcebisi Skwatsha) apologised for their absence. The Deputy Speaker, Mr Solomon Lechesa Tsenoli, and the other Deputy Minister in the Department (Ms Candith Mashego-Dlamini) were welcomed to the meeting.
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation briefed the Committee on ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform expenditure: HSRC & Treasury inputs
5 Apr 2016
The Committee, with the Deputy Minister in attendance, heard from National Treasury that the Department had been very successful in spending its allocation. Under the Restitution Programme, a total of 130 000 new claims had been lodged since 2014, and the number was expected to increase to 397 000 claims ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Agri Parks status report; RAMA Communal Property Association update; Adoption of Committee report on Department's Strategic Plan 2016, in presence of Deputy Minister
16 Mar 2016
Other documents: Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform: Draft Strategic Plan 2016 – 2019; Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform: Draft Minutes 02 March 2016; Portfolio Committee on Rural Development and Land Reform: Draft Minutes 09 March 2016
The Committee, in the presence of the Deputy Minister, was ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Land Rights Management Facility on its 2015 Performance, with Deputy Ministers
2 Mar 2016
The Committee was briefed by the Land Rights Facility Management Facility (LRMF) on its 2015 performance. The LRMF provides specialised legal and mediation services to indigent individuals and communities who faced the violation of their land rights. Since 1 January 2013, 1 830 matters were dealt with by the project. ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Commission on Restitution of Land Rights 2nd & 3rd Quarter 2015/16 performance, with Deputy Minister
24 Feb 2016
The Committee welcomed the Quarterly Reports as they showed the progress that had been made in dealing with claims. However discomfort was expressed at the pace of restitution. The Committee was very interested in the research aspect of the Commission's brief. They asked whether, after involving research institutions, the 1 ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, Ingonyama Trust Board on their 2nd & 3rd Quarter 2015/16 performance
17 Feb 2016
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) on its 2nd and 3rd Quarter Performance Reports in 2015/16; and the 2nd and 3rd Quarter Financial Performance Report for 2015/2016 in the presence of the Minister, Deputy Minister and the Director-General. The Committee identified as ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Land Restitution progress report and Land Reform Strategic Planning Session
3 Feb 2016
The process of settling land claims is going to take 144 years to complete.
This came out of the discussion the Portfolio Committee had with the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (CRLR).
The Commission briefed the Committee about policy priorities from 2009/10 to 2014/15, stating that it has reviewed ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Communal Property Association 2015 Annual Report, Rama and Riemvasmaak updates: Department Rural Development & Land Reform briefings, minute adoption
4 Nov 2015
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) presented the Annual Report 2014/15 for the Communal Property Associations (CPAs). To date, 1 428 CPAs were registered, with 48 being registered in the last financial year. Challenges faced by CPAs included ongoing conflicts amongst CPA members which centred on governance ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
"One Woman, One Hectare of Land" CGE Report; Rural Development & Land Reform Budget Review & Recommendations Report
28 Oct 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Commission for Gender Equality presented on its proposed campaign called One Woman, One Hectare of Land’. The campaign aims to mainstream gender equality, for it was proposed that the State should allocate one hectare of land, for the growing of food, to ...
Land Reform and Rural Development
Extension of Security Tenure Amendment Bill [B24-2015]: briefing by Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
21 Oct 2015
The Deputy Minister of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR), addressed the Committee on the motivation for the amendments to the Extension of Security of Tenure Amendment Bill, saying the fundamental resolve was to overcome decades of hardship in South Africa. Its redress was not about obsolete ...