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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
2020 Legislative Programme & court judgments impacting this; Committee Programme; with Minister
11 Feb 2020
The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, assured the Committee that all the legislative proposals would be presented to the Cabinet for consideration. Some of the provisions of these pieces of legislation had been found by the courts to be unconstitutional. The Minister said it would not take ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Committee Programme on provincial public hearings
4 Feb 2020
Documents used in meeting:
Proposed Public Hearings Programme (to be amended)
Call for Comment
ATC191209: First Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, dated 5 December 2019
Section 25 Review Process
RSA ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Update on diseases of economic importance & new export protocols, time frames: department briefing with Minister
4 Feb 2020
The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development had recently been briefed by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development on the status of the outbreaks of animal and plant diseases and the impact of these diseases on the agricultural sector. The Foot and Mouth Disease ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Extending deadline for public submissions & public hearings programme
30 Jan 2020
Call for Comment
ATC191209: First Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill, dated 5 December 2019
Section 25 Review Process
RSA Constitution
Rules of Parliament
The Chairperson informed the Committee that there ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Impact of land expropriation without compensation on international law and treaties to which South Africa is a signatory: DTI briefing
27 Nov 2019
Parliament: Section 25 process
Ad Hoc Committee on Section 25 Hears Bilateral International Treaties Refer to Property, Not Land
EU Parliamentary Question: South Africa's Bilateral Investment Treaties
RSA Constitution
The Department of Trade and Industry had been requested to brief the Committee on South Africa’s international obligations in respect ...
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 ...
Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution
Land Dialogue workshop
6 Nov 2019
Parliament: Section 25 process
The mandate of the Committee was to discuss how to make explicit what was implicit with regards to expropriation of land without compensation in the interest of land reform. Parliament’s legal advisory team presented two options for the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution. A ...
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Drought update; Provinces’ state of readiness for 2019/20 planting season
5 Nov 2019
The Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform together with AgriSA, AFASA and all provincial agriculture departments briefed the Portfolio Committee on their state of readiness for the 2019/20 planting season.
The Committee heard that widespread drought that has plagued the country since 2013 is not only affecting harvests, ...