Department of Environmental Affairs

1. (a) (i) None

(ii) None

(b) (i) Not Applicable.

(ii) Not Applicable.

(2) (a) None

(i) Nil.

(ii) (aa) Not Applicable.

(bb) Not Applicable.

South African Weather Service (SAWS)

1. (a) (i) Nil, SAWS has no vacant land (SAWS owns 59,29 hectares in Gauteng Province).

(ii) None.

(b) (i) Not Applicable.

(ii) Not Applicable.

(2) (a) None.

(i) Nil. ...

1. The stockpiles created by REDISA, as well as waste tyres collected from collection points, are sorted and pre-processed at depots prior to being delivered to processors and/or secondary industries. Stockpiles which do not fall within the category above (Historical waste tyre stockpiles) are dealt with in terms of Regulations 7, 8 and 9 of the Waste Tyre Regulations of 2017. Owners of Historical ...

(1) (a) The depots which were existing and operational with REDISA are currently being operated by the Waste Bureau on the basis of a closed tender which was approved by Treasury.

(b) The criteria below was considered for the depots:

• • Depot to be registered with REDISA.
  • Have space to operate the depot from.
  • Display knowledge (what will be needed at a new place to ...

Sections 3 and 6 and subsequent subsections of the Ministerial Handbook allows the Executive Members to be accompanied by their spouses or an adult family member instead of their spouses in their official journeys abroad at departmental expenses/costs. Yes, the Minister has been accompanied to a Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by her son ...

Government has put in place a Financial Disclosure Framework for all Middle Management Staff (MMS), Senior Management Staff (SMS) and all employees entrusted with public funds. This framework is aimed at preventing conflict of interests by requiring designated employees to disclose their financial interests.The said employees are required to disclose shares and other financial interests held in any private or public company or any ...

(a) (i) and (ii)) According to the results of inspection conducted by the officials, twenty five (25) exhibit bags from OR Tambo International Airport Cargo office for the Department of Environmental Affairs were analysed by the National Zoological Garden (NZG) forensic laboratory in April 2018. A ziplock bag was used to randomly collect DNA samples of the pieces of lion bones exported. Each ziplock ...

There has not been an annual agreement to export 800 lions, but a lion bone quota for export of 800 Lion skeletons as set for 2017. The export of such lion skeletons or bones were as follow:

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The Department is responsible for the allocation of the lion bone quota to provincial authorities who are responsible for the issuance of the export permit. As per the information received from the provinces, the Department does not have records of any of the provinces having issued an export permit for lion bone trade to the person referred to.

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The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) does not regulate domestic animals:

• The welfare of both domestic and wild animals is regulated by two Acts of Parliament, namely the Animals Protection Act, 1962 (Act No. 71 of 1962) and the Performing Animals Protection Act, 1935 (Act No. 24 of 1935 as amended).
• Both the above acts fall under the administration of the Minister of Agriculture, ...

(a) (i) The current estimate is that there are 300 lion breeding facilities in South Africa. This is based on reports provided by the provincial issuing authorities.

(ii) (aa) the lion breeding facilities register with the Provincial Authorities as competent Authorities; hence the data referred to in (a) (i) (the Department, therefore, does not have information on the detailed breakdown of the number of ...