2023-w3993 - 08 December 2023

Annerie Maria Magdalena Weber to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

Whether, with reference to the revised National Determined Contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions that she has submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in October 2021 to ensure that the Republic pursues the goals of the Paris Agreement, and noting that load shedding has led to the acceptance of noncompliance to minimum emissions of the Eskom power stations (details furnished), her department monitors Eskom's emission data; if not, why not; if so, (a) how far are the Eskom power stations in reaching their set target of 1000mg/Nm3 and (b) what is the current average that the Eskom power stations are on with regard to minimum emission for S02?

2023-w4011 - 08 December 2023

Tamarin Breedt to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

(1) With reference to the Abalone Scientific Working Group and The West Coast Rock Lobster Scientific Working Group, (a) which areas have their own scientific working groups and (b)(i) who is the representative of each (aa) scientific working group and (bb) community represented and (ii) what qualifies them for the specified positions; (2) what process is followed in electing the specified representatives; (3) whether the positions are advertised; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (4) whether the scientific working group meetings are publicly advertised to ensure that all parties involved in the fishing community have access; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details for the meetings and its advertisement for the past 24 months?

2023-w4010 - 08 December 2023

Tamarin Breedt to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

(1) What are the reasons that abalone quotas have been moved from the Overberg area to the West Coast; (2) since 30 May 2019, what was the timeline on which the movement of quotas towards the West Coast took place, with regard to the (a) total number of permit holders that were moved, (b) location they were moved to and (c) reasons that they were moved in each financial year since 2019-20?

2023-w4093 - 08 December 2023

Teboho Loate to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

1) Whether she has found that the Republic's latest Nationally Determined Contributions submission will ensure that the Republic's carbon reduction commitment will accord with the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree Celsius limit; if not, why not; if so, on what facts is that assertion made, 2) how will the adaptation component in the Republic's updated Nationally Determined Contributions be funded, considering that the Government, and municipalities in particular, are substantially unable to meet the present costs of maintaining and renewing infrastructure?

2023-w4009 - 08 December 2023

Tamarin Breedt to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

(1) Whether her department has been informed of the large number of poachers allegedly using the Hawston Harbour to poach abalone as far as Robben Island and beyond; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether the specified harbour is (a) still a registered harbour and/or slipway and (b) policed by her department; if not, why not, in each case; if so, what are the relevant details in each case; (3) whether, considering that Hermanus' New Harbour is only five kilometres away, her department has considered closing and requesting the demolishing of Hawston Harbour to curb the extensive poaching network that operates from there; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

2023-w4001 - 08 December 2023

Mogamad Nazier Paulsen to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

(a) Why the 30% procurement target for rural and township enterprises was removed from the plans of her department and (b) what are the potential impacts of removing the target on rural and township enterprises?

2023-w3980 - 08 December 2023

Sibongile Mchunu to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

How will the agreement of the Transition Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the operationalisation of the Climate Loss and Damage Fund assist the Republic moving forward, since it has entered the decade of extreme weather conditions, especially regarding the coastal areas which are affected the most?

2023-w4002 - 08 December 2023

Mogamad Nazier Paulsen to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

What are the details why the target of 75% of budget expenditure on (a) Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and (b) Black-owned enterprises was removed?

2023-w3987 - 08 December 2023

Narend Singh to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

What are the relevant details pertaining to the permitted use of the Aliwal Shoal Marine Protected Area for (a) shore-based recreational, subsistence line-fishers and residents and (b) management and staff training together with additional and ongoing stakeholder engagements?

2023-w4042 - 08 December 2023

Narend Singh to ask the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

(1) What are the full relevant details of the progress of the iSimangaliso Task Team regarding the dredging of the uMsunduzi blockages; (2) whether the specified dredging is still on course as it was intended; if not, why not; if so, what are the further relevant details?
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