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(2) What process is followed when deciding on placements;
(3) Are graduates able to appeal their placement; if not, why not; if so, how does a student go about appealing a placement?
(1) With reference to the prescribed compulsory community service performance for all veterinary graduates, what criteria are used when determining where each graduate will be placed; (2) what process is followed when deciding on placements; (3) are graduates able to appeal their placement; if not, why not; if so, how does a student go about appealing a placement?
- It should be noted that in terms of the contemplated regulations, the Minister shall make a final decision with the regard to the place where a CCS veterinarian shall perform compulsory community service, criteria for the selection of places where Compulsory Community Service (CCS) is to be performed and the placement of veterinary graduates are based on key strategic objectives of the Compulsory Community ...
(1) Whether, in view of the Agricultural Policy Action Plan (APAP) 2015-2019 which refers to the inability of his department to manage commercial plantations on a sustainable basis due to a lack of funding to replant unplanted areas and in view of the proposed reforestation of 147 000 ha over an estimated period of 10 years involving, inter alia, the private sector and other funding agencies, the prospective partners have been identified; if so, how far has this process progressed; (2) what are the relevant details of the plan to reforest 147 000 ha over an estimated 10 year period; (3) why does the specified plan not include statistical data captured after 2012?
- Through the APAP as programmatic response to addressing agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, my department is implementing forestry through partnerships as depicted in the answer to Question 2 below.
- The 147 000ha of land identified for reforestation is broken down as follows:
100 000 hectares (ha) of afforestation potential land in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal as identified by the Forest Sector Charter of 2009.
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With reference to security at the harbours situated in (a) Hout Bay, (b) Kalk Bay and (c) Gordon's Bay, have any security contracts been awarded; if so, in each case, (i) to which company, (ii) what are the full names of all the directors of the company, (iii) what is the value of the contract, (iv) for what period of time will the contract run, (v) how many persons are employed by the specified company, (vi) who pays their salaries, (vii) from which budget does this money come and (vii) are any MK veterans employed by the specified company?
No. The Department does not have any contract with any company for security in (a) Hout Bay, (b) Kalk Bay and (c) Gordon’s Bay.
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Whether the Government has developed or was developing a policy and funding plan to allow the country’s rural population to have access to biodigesters in order to create biogas for domestic cooking and electricity purposes as is happening in India and/or to stimulate large-scale production of purified biogas for fuel as in China; if not, why not; if so, (a) what are the relevant details of the biogas initiatives in the country that are led by the Government and (b) how extensive is the roll-out of the specified initiatives in the country’s rural population?
(a) What are the relevant details of the biogas initiatives in the country that are led by the Government?
The Department and the ARC completed a pilot phase of the Biodigester project in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District (Free State province) that started in June 2012 and just concluded in June 2015 as part of the mitigation and adaptation to climate variability and change in ...
Whether he has requested or will be requesting a seminar or bosberaad with departmental officials and private sector experts to understand the implications of the report of the International Labour Organisation released in February 2015, entitled Farm Workers’ Living and Working Conditions in South Africa: key trends, emergent issues and underlying and structural problems, and in particular to address the point that outdated assumptions and oversimplifications continue to fuel unhealthy polarisation in the perceptions and views of key players in agriculture; if not, why not; if so, (a) what are the relevant details and (b) when will he make a statement regarding the failure of the Government as highlighted in the specified report?
Although I am fully aware of the ILO study on farm workers living and working conditions in South Africa, the report that was issued in February 2015 was just a draft for input by affected stakeholders. The ILO final report on farm workers living and working conditions in South Africa was only finalized and published on 21 July 2015.
I am arranging a briefing ...
Whether (a) he, (b) his Deputy Minister and (c) any officials in his department travelled to China in the 2014-15 financial year; if so, what was the (i) purpose of each specified visit and (ii)(aa) total cost and (bb) breakdown of such costs of each specified visit?
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Date of visit
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Names and surnames of delegation
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Directorate
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Purpose of visit
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Total cost
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Breakdown of cost
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If not in each specified case, why not?
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31 August to 7 September 2014
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Ms R Mahlakoana
Mr Bulelani Mgcoyi
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Directorate Plant Health
Directorate Inspection Services
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To review and pre-test the quarantine status and pest mitigation systems to initiate the importation ... |
With regard to the current drought in South Africa, (a) which regions have been declared drought areas, (b) what assistance is his department currently providing to affected farmers, (c) what are the details of (i) current and (ii) projected losses to the agricultural sector as a result of the drought, (d) what impact does this drought have on the country’s food security and (e) aside from any assistance provided to farmers, what other steps is his department taking to minimise the impact of this drought?
(a) Requests for declaration were submitted to the relevant Provincial Disaster Management Centers (PDMCs) by the Provincial Departments of Agriculture as declaration of state disaster is a competency of the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCOG) as per the Disaster Management Act (Act 57 of 2002). The role of sector departments is to make requests and submissions to DCOG regarding declarations, The declarations are made ...
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(1) With reference to the protest action that was embarked on by staff members of the Fisheries sector of his department at the beginning of May, has a memorandum of grievances been handed over to his department; if so, (a) what are the relevant details of their grievances, (b) which grievances have been attended to, (c) what actions were taken when attending to each grievance, (d)(i) which grievances have not yet been attended to and (ii) why have they not been attended to? NW2082E
(1) With reference to his reply to question 463 on 13 April 2015, have the workers on (a) Magwa and (b) Majola tea plantations in the Eastern Cape been paid as at the latest specified date for which information is available; if not, why not; if so, are all payments up to date;
(2) has any further funding been provided to (a) Magwa and (b) Majola tea plantations; if so, (i) how much funding has been provided to each specified plantation and (ii) by whom;
(3) (a) what is his department’s long-term plan in relation to the two specified tea plantations and (b) what steps does he intend taking to get them functioning again?
