Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Disaster Management Amendment Bill: National Disaster Centre Responses to public submissions, deliberations
27 May 2015
The National Disaster Management Centre, legal advisors from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and the State Law Advisors took the Committee through a detailed document setting out the latest proposals for the Disaster Management Amendment Bill, and the Department and Centre's responses to inputs from stakeholders ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Demarcation Board on its 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans; Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10-2015]: National Treasury response
20 May 2015
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) briefed the Committee on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plan. In 2014, it had commenced with ward demarcation, intending to complete this in August 2015, but the Minister had then intervened to ask that it re-determine certain municipal boundaries. It was expected that this process ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Report on Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Budget
5 May 2015
The Committee considered two proposals by the Democratic Alliance for inclusion in the report. That revenue collected by municipalities on electricity sales should be ring-fenced and used for the repayment of debt to Eskom and for maintenance upgrades to electricity infrastructure in the municipality. The second proposal was that the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10-2015]: public hearings Day 2
22 Apr 2015
The Committee heard submissions from various stakeholders on the Disaster Management Amendment Bill.
The Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) raised key issues such as the fact that fifty percent of disaster losses are not recorded, the importance of devolution and placement of the function at ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Disaster Management Amendment Bill: briefing by stakeholders
21 Apr 2015
Various Stakeholders presented their ideas and comments on the Disaster Amendment Bill [B10-2015]
There were several issues raised in these presentations that were recurrent in many presentations and almost the whole Committee and the stakeholders agreed with the move from the phrase ‘disaster management’ to ‘disaster risk reduction and the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on its Annual Performance Plan
10 Mar 2015
The Committee convened to hear a presentation from the South Africa Local Government Association (SALGA) on its annual performance plan, and was told that the Association was starting to engage with people in terms of accomplishing their set goals and objectives. There had been a holistic appraisal of the efforts ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on their Budgets & Annual Performance Plans, with Minister
3 Mar 2015
The Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) presented their Strategic Plans 2015-2019 and2015/16 Annual Performance Plans t the Portfolio Committee, with the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Mr Pravin Gordhan, in attendance.
The Minister said local government was an important sphere of government and everyone, regardless ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Disaster Management Amendment Bill: briefing by Department of Cooperative Governance
24 Feb 2015
Officials from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs’ Disaster Management sector briefed the Committee on the proposed amendments in the Disaster Management Amendment Bill. Disaster management was a functional area listed in Schedule 4A of the Constitution. The Disaster Management Act of 2002 was intentionally reputed for its ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency on operations and implementation of programmes
11 Nov 2014
The Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) presented its report and stated that it was created to support and build technical capacity in local government for the improvement of municipal infrastructure provisioning, refurbishment and maintenance in accordance with section 7 (5) of the Public Service Act. Its mandate is to render ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Roles and functions of traditional leaders: Department of Traditional Affairs briefing
4 Nov 2014
The Department of Traditional Affairs briefed the Committee on the roles and functions of traditional leaders. The institution of traditional leadership was recognised in section 212 of the Constitution. The White Paper on Traditional Leadership and Governance and the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act of 2003 aimed to transform ...