Woodlands and indigenous forest management

• Sustainable Forest Development in South Africa: The Policy of the Government of National Unity - White Paper, March 1997.

Woodlands and indigenous forest management

• Policy and Strategic Framework for Participatory Forest Management: 04 August 2004.
• Summit pamphlet: Participatory Forest Management: Policy and practice in South Africa.
• National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No 84 of 1998) and National Veld and Forest Fire Act, 1998 (No.101 of 1998): Compliance and enforcement policy, 12 October 2005.
• Key issue paper for a policy on transfers of state owned industrial plantations: 2004.
• Draft policy on financial support to fire protection associations and to owners who prepare firebreaks on international boundaries. 11 February 2002.
• Policy on the formation of umbrella fire protection associations, 2003.
• Policy regarding access to state forests for outdoor recreation, education, culture or spiritual purposes. 30 September 2005.
• Policy principles and guidelines for control of development affecting natural forests. 06 September 2010.
• Access to state forests for recreation, education, cultural or spiritual fulfilment: general rules and conditions. 30 September 2005.
• Policy on exemptions from the duty to prepare and maintain firebreaks in terms of section 14 Of the National Veld and Forest Fire Act: Draft 3, 25 June 2003.

Small scale forestry

• Charter council.
• Final draft: Forest transformation charter, November 2007.
• Work plan for developing forest sector transformation charter, Version 2: 4 August 2005.
• BBBEE charter undertakings: Streamline and expedite afforestation licensing procedures.
• Forestry enterprise support model.
• Forestry enterprise project scorecard.
• Framework for the forest sector charter document.
• Participatory forest management guide 1: Legal options for community partnerships with DEFF.
• Participatory forest management guide 2: Formation of PFM forums and committees.
• Participatory forest management guide 3: Logical framework approach to project planning: preparing and documenting a project.
• Participatory forest management guide 4: Financial management of projects.
• Participatory forest management guide 5: Fund raising for projects.
• Participatory forest management guide 6: Sustainable resource use.
• Participatory forest management guide 7: Project monitoring and evaluation.
• Participatory forest management guide 8: stakeholder participation.
• Participatory forest management project template.
• Composition, powers and mandate and work programme for sub-sector working groups of the forest sector charter steering committee.

Forestry regulation and oversight

• Guide to the interpretation and implementation of the National Veld and Forest Fire Act No. 101 of 1998. Version 3, 6 January 2005.
• Guidance notes: forestry statistics survey, 2004/2005.
• Work plan for developing forest sector transformation charter, Version 4: 30 March 2006.
• Champion trees of South Africa: Individual trees and groups of trees declared as protected under section 12 of the National Forests Act of 1998. 2013 October 14.
• Tree with the largest stem diameter in South Africa.
• Tree with the largest crown, 2019.
• Fast-wood forestry: myths and realities.
• Fire protection association (FPA) registration and reporting business processes, 2005 September 30.
• Framework for the National Forestry Action Programme, March 2005.
• National veldfire risk classification: March 2010.
• The South African criteria, indicators and management goals for sustainable forest management: draft 05 for comment, September 2015.

Woodlands and indigenous forest management

• National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No 84 of 1998): Notice of the list of protected tree species [G 34595 – GN 734]
• National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No 84 of 1998): Declaration of list of national forest types as natural forests [G 40660 – GoN 167]

Small scale forestry

• Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (Act No. 53 of 2003) code of good practice: Draft forest sector charter for public comments [G 32320 – GN 873].

Forestry regulation and oversight

• National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998): Invitation to submit written comments on the proposed list of particular trees and particular groups of trees champion trees [G 41811 – GN 430].
• National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998): Notice of the list of protected tree species [G 38215 – GoN 908]