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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
Integrated Urban Development & effects of migration and climate change on municipalities
26 May 2015
The Committee heard briefings from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), the SA Cities Network (SACN) and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) on the integrated urban development framework and the effects of migration and climate change on municipalities.
Statistics South Africa’s presentation revolved around what South Africa’s ...
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
Withholding equitable share from municipalities: input by Department of Cooperative Governance; National Treasury & SALGA
12 May 2015
Department of Cooperative Governance
The Department said that the decision to withhold the equitable share funds was a Treasury decision. Its presentation spoke to the engagements with the affected municipalities, general observations from the engagements, future issues of policy that needed discussion, the progress to date of municipal payments to ...
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
Disaster Management Amendment Bill: deliberations
14 Apr 2015
The Committee Content Adviser read through amended clauses in the Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10—2015]. The reading was cross-referenced to the principal Act, the Disaster Management Act, Act 57 of 2002. Explanatory comments were provided. Definitions were amended to be in accord with international terminology. The clause dealing with the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
CRL Rights Commission on its Annual Performance Plan 2015/16
17 Mar 2015
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. The Commission was dealing with issues of diminished heritage. The Commission had tackled the issue of initiation schools and the nation had taken ...
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 ...