Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Meeting report

Discussion

The Chairperson opened the meeting and said its purpose was to deliberate on and adopt the Committee’s Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and entities.

Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

The Chairperson took the Committee through the report and highlighted a few grammatical errors.

Mr X Msimango (ANC) asked if the Committee could schedule time after each oversight visit to take stock of how the Committee planned its oversight and how to improve on the next oversight visit. The sessions would also provide feedback to those who assisted with the logistics to improve their processes as a Committee. There was a need to take lessons from the previous oversight to better the next oversight.

He commented on the report stating that it was a true reflection of their oversight.

The Chairperson said that the issue raised was noted. However, it was important that the Committee first handled the report.

Mr G Mpumza (ANC) said the content of the report represented the deliberation of the Committee while pointing out a few minor errors.

He proceeded to move for the adoption of the report.

He also supported Mr Msimango in making time and space to reflect on their oversight, so the Committee could improve its efforts going forward.

Mr Msimango also moved to adopt the meeting while highlighting a minor error.

Mr C Brink (DA) highlighted a few observations on what needed to be included in the report; he said there were very few observations on the district development model because it was unclear. The second observation was the political involvement of the chairperson of the Municipal Demarcation Board which other Members had raised. This touched on the credibility and legitimacy of the Municipal Demarcation Board which was meant to be above the party-political frame.

The report was adopted with minor amendments.

The Chairperson said that Committee would follow up on the issue raised by Mr Msimango. It was a matter of principle that the Committee improved from the lessons from the past.

The meeting was adjourned.