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2009/04/20
L Hendricks: Kwambonambi Community handing over ceremony
It gives me great pleasure to celebrate with the community of Kwambonambi as we hand over land and the accompanying lease rentals for your land that is used by Siyaqhubeka. In 1998, Cabinet took a decision to restructure the South African Forestry Company Limited (SAFCOL) and forestry plantations owned by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. The Mbonambi community lodged a land claim over the Kwambonambi plantation that forms part of the Siyaqhubeka lease agreement area which has ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/30
L Hendricks to open Vaal River Eastern Subsystem Augmentation Project, 1 Apr
Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Mrs Lindiwe Hendricks will officially open the 2,5 billion rand Vaal River Eastern Subsystem Augmentation Project (VRESAP) also known as the Vaal pipeline on 1 April 2009. The growing water demands of Sasol and Eskom in the Mpumalanga Highveld region have necessitated the implementation of the scheme to transfer water via a 121 kilometre pipeline from the Vaal Dam near the Knoppiesfontein diversion structure into dams near Secunda. The project will ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/26
L Hendricks: Extended National Water Week Programme
Water and sanitation services are after all a constitutional and legislated responsibility of this municipality. In order to ensure that water services authorities have the correct water resources planning information available to complete their Water Services Development Plans and Integrated Development Plans, our department has initiated the 'All Towns Reconciliation Study' which is targeting 134 Eastern Cape towns, of which 48 were flagged as urgent, and 10 had been flagged as ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/22
L Hendricks: World Water Forum
In particular, we need to build on the elements of the plan of action for the implementation of the Sharm El-Shaik declaration and commitments on water and sanitation. Our development partners are encouraged to support and commit to the implementation of the African water agenda through existing mechanism such as the African water facility and the rural water supply and sanitation initiatives and any other new initiatives where this is necessary. The African Development Bank (AFDB) in ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/21
L Hendricks: Fifth World Water Forum
We are currently managing a cross-sectoral approach to water management in South Africa through our Water for Growth and Development framework. Our Water for Growth and Development Framework is the result of two years of consultations with key players in the water sector. Our Water for Growth and Development Framework addresses these key issues, it is a framework that maps a course of action to ensure that the central role of water is promoted as a cross-sectoral input that supports social ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/20
L Hendricks: Happy hour event during World Water Forum
On behalf of the people of the Republic of South Africa, I am also proud to inform you that South Africa is one of two candidates bidding for and being considered to host the sixth World Water Forum in 2012 in the city of Durban. The sixth World Water Forum is certainly presents an exciting opportunity for my government, our Parliament and local government, civil society, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and industry in South Africa to jointly contribute to the global debate and call to ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/20
L Hendricks: High-level panel on water and climate during the World Water Forum
Our Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism is the designated lead department in driving/coordinating our climate change agenda and we have recently adopted a long term mitigation strategy on climate change. South Africa is in the process of preparing our second national communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Within my own portfolio, climate change has serious implications for our water resources and South Africa being water stressed country, any ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/18
L Hendricks to participate in fifth World Water Forum, 16 to 22 Mar
South Africa, through the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF), is participating in the fifth World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul Turkey from 16 to 22 March 2009. Minister Lindiwe Hendricks is leading a delegation comprising senior officials including the Director-General of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to the forum this week. The World Water Forum is a triennial event organised by the World Water Council. [highlighted result]
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2009/03/12
L Hendricks: Treatment for areas affected by cholera
I am very pleased to be here today on this very important occasion to hand over a package water treatment plant as part of government's cholera intervention response plan. You must store your water in a clean closed container and you must use clean cup when you scoop water out of the container. These interventions could include the carting of water by tanker to communities, the provision of emergency package water treatment plants, the provision of Jik and soap and the provision of suitable... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/12
L Hendricks on cholera affected areas in Limpopo Province
Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Mrs Lindiwe Hendricks has visited the cholera affected Limpopo Province where she commissioned a new packaged mobile water treatment plant worth three million rand for the community of Bothashoek village in the Tubatse Local Municipality, as part an intervention to fight the cholera outbreak. The department has been actively involved in efforts to contain the cholera outbreak, providing among other things clean drinking water by carting water with ... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/03
L Hendricks: Climate Change Summit
The 'Midrand Plan of Action' that emerged from government's 2005 National Conference on Climate Change noted, among others, that the health sector urgently requires an updated assessment of its vulnerability to climate change. To this end, the Department of Health will be an active participant in the compilation of South Africa's second national communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which will, among others, assess and evaluate all potential health... [highlighted result]
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2009/03/02
L Hendricks: Launch of framework on water for growth and development
The key goal of the National Water Week is to raise the profile of water as a key resource for socio-economic development hence the need to educate people on the importance of protecting and conserving this limited resource. The Water for Growth and Development Framework addresses these key issues. I would like to urge all sector partners to assist government during the National Water Week to communicate strong messages about the need to conserve water. [highlighted result]
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2009/03/01
L Hendricks: Vaal River Eastern Sub-system Augmentation Project (VRESAP)
This project, to provide additional bulk raw water infrastructure, commenced in 2004 following a Cabinet decision responding to the very urgent representations made by two strategic partners, Eskom and Sasol, who required a greater assurance of supply of water to the thermal power stations in Mpumalanga and the petrochemical facility in Secunda. There are three significant outcomes from this project which I would like to highlight: Firstly: Eskom and Sasol are now assured of an adequate and ... [highlighted result]
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2008/12/04
L Hendricks: Outcomes of Cabinet discussion on Water and Augmentation of Vaal River System
* Drinking water quality: The five percent of municipalities who do not comply with the health aspects of drinking water quality standards as well as those that do not report yet to be brought to the required standards of drinking water quality. I am pleased to announce that as part of our efforts to ensure greater water availability for the Vaal River System, Cabinet yesterday approved a major new water infrastructure project, namely the implementation of Phase 2 of the Lesotho Highlands ... [highlighted result]
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2008/11/06
Water Affairs and Forestry on L Hendricks as chair of SADC water ministers meeting
Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Mrs Lindiwe Hendricks has today assumed the chairmanship of the SADC African Minister's meeting on water on behalf of South Africa. Minister Hendricks took over the reigns from Tanzania at a gathering of the SADC Water Minister's meeting in the Tanzanian city of Mwanza earlier today (6 November 2008). South Africa will chair the SADC Water Minister's Council until 2010. [highlighted result]
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2008/11/06
L Hendricks: Southern African Development Community (SADC) Water Ministers Meeting
As an incoming chair of the SADC Water Ministers Meeting, I acknowledge that we have a difficult task of not only building on gains made, but also to sharpen our focus on real issues that are affecting water and sanitation in the region. Issues we must consider for inclusion onto the SADC Water agenda include: 1. Intensification of infrastructure development and water management programmes; 2. The implementation of programmes to clear alien invasive plant species throughout SADC; 3. ... [highlighted result]
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2008/10/30
L Hendricks: Launch of Bloomdal Bulk Pipeline Project
The challenges we identified were firstly, problems with one of the boreholes supplying water to the town and the chlorination of the water, and secondly problems with the water in the river due to effluent from industry as well as problems with the treatment of waste water. The pipeline is expected to cost an estimated R85 million, and Rand Water, the Mpumalanga Provincial Department of Local Government, the Delmas Local Municipality and the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry will all ... [highlighted result]
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2008/10/09
L Hendricks: Arbor City Awards ceremony
Secondly, we have our Arbor Week which is aimed at creating awareness amongst communities about the importance of trees, and to encourage people to plant indigenous trees throughout the country. Arbor Week is seen as the peak of all our tree planting efforts during the year. In 1996 then the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Prof. Kader Asmal, recognised the need to emphasise the importance of greening, and extended Arbor Day to Arbor Week. [highlighted result]
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2008/10/07
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a lot of water that we are saving and giving back to the environment! The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) in partnership with Cape Nature Conservation Board identified the Witfontein Nature Reserve in George as an ideal location to initiate an Environmental Education Initiative. The Witfontein Nature Reserve was proclaimed in 1988 as a mountain catchment area; a source for drinking water and conservation of biodiversity. [highlighted result]
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2008/10/06
L Hendricks: Launch of Weed Buster Week
It is through such efforts and working with initiatives like the Working for Water programme that we are addressing poverty in our country and creating a better life for our people. The campaign involves a number of government departments and led by my department, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry through the Working for Water (WfW) programme. Ladies and gentlemen Programme Director The second reason we are here today is to launch the Free State office of the Working for Water ... [highlighted result]
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