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Mineral Resources and Energy
High Level Panel recommendations for Mineral Resources: Dr Claassens briefing
7 Nov 2018
Dr Aninka Claassens, the High Level Panel chairperson of the working group on land, spoke about the Panel’s recommendations that affected mining. The legacy of apartheid had left its mark by creating spatial inequality and it was in that context that the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) was ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee discussed and approved its report (with amendments) on the Mineral Resources Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report.
The Committee focused on the Observations ad Recommendations sections in the report.
Members highlighted that women are an integral part of the mining industry and ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources Quarter 4 performance; Oversight Reports
5 Sep 2018
The Department of Mineral Resources briefed the Committee on their 4th Quarterly report.
The overall expenditure up to 31 March 2018 (4th quarter) amounted to R1.779 billion or 99.8% of the total allocated budget of R1.779 billion for the 2017/18 financial year resulting in an underspending of R2.8 million or ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Section 54 notices & Chamber of Mines proposal; State Capture inquiry programme
23 May 2018
Members were briefed by the Department on Mineral Resources (DMR) on progress in resolving Section 54 notice challenges and the DMR response to the Chamber of Mines proposal. The enforcement measures are meant to encourage compliance with the Mine Health and Safety (MHS) Act and achieve the goal of zero ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
State Capture Inquiry into ex-Mineral Resources Minister: Terms of Reference / Witnesses; Committee DMR Budget Report
25 Apr 2018
A Parliamentary Legal Adviser presented the envisaged terms of reference to the Committee. The background to the inquiry was the release in 2016 of a report by the then Public Protector, that contained findings that pointed to governance failures and maladministration in the DMR, and information on conflict of interest ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
State Diamond Trader & CGS & Mintek & SADPMR Annual Performance Plan
19 Apr 2018
The Council for GeoSciences took members through its Annual Performance Plan, the key activities planned and the budget for the year 2018/2019. The CGS training of associates featured prominently in the presentation, two members of staff who had completed their PHDS and were associates at the CGS were present and ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Department of Mineral Resources & Mine Health and Safety Council Annual Performance Plan
18 Apr 2018
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and Mine Health and Safety Council (MHSC) briefed the Committee on their Annual Performance Plans (APP) and budget for the 2018/19 financial year. The Committee was first briefed by the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) on its interim review of the final draft of the ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Terms of Reference on State Capture allegations involving former Minister of Mineral Resources
14 Mar 2018
Documents Handed Out: Preliminary Draft Terms of Reference [available under Tabled Committee report once adopted]
This meeting was called following a resolution by the Committee on 21 February 2018 to institute an inquiry to probe the role of the former Minister of Mineral Resources Mr Mosebenzi Zwane in allegations of ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
Optimum Coal Mine latest developments
28 Feb 2018
This meeting was called upon the request of the National Union of Mine Workers - Optimum Mine branch. There was a strike at Optimum Coal Mine in Mpumalanga following the failure of the mine to pay the workers’ salaries. The management at Optimum Mine declined the invitation to attend the ...
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 ...