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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal forensic investigations: COGTA report; Constitutional Court judgement on Municipal Systems Amendment Bill; with Minister & Deputy Minister
6 Mar 2018
The Committee met with the Minister, Deputy Minister, and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to discuss the progress on forensic investigations in local government and the Constitutional Court requirements for the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill 2011.
In his remarks, the Minister expressed his commitment to working closely ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Structures Amendment Bill: briefing; SONA impact on local government
28 Feb 2018
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met with the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance to discuss the impact of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) on local government and to brief the Committee on the Municipal Structures Amendment (MSA) Bill.
The Department said although the SONA did ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Report on CRL Rights Commission Report on regulation of religion and abuse of people’s beliefs
14 Feb 2018
The committee met for the consideration and adoption of the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic (CRL) Rights Commission’s report on the regulation of religion and abuse of people’s beliefs page by page. There was little discussion, and the report was approved with amendments.
The Chairperson said that on the Committee’s China ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Programme
13 Feb 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Report on CRL Rights Commission Report on Regulation of religion and abuse of people’s beliefs
30 Jan 2018
The Committee met to discuss its own report based on the CRL Rights Commission Report on the regulation of religion and abuse of people’s beliefs.
It noted that there would always be those against the regulation of religion which was an ideological debate; however it was important that Government intervene ...
Energy
Electricity distribution industry sector and rehabilitation of infrastructure: Inter-Ministerial Task Team update; with Deputy Minister
28 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Energy and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met to receive a presentation from an Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT). The presentation dealt with constitutional challenges relating to electricity reticulation. Concerns were raised early on about the absence of many key members of the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
National Disaster Management Centre Annual Report 2016/17
15 Nov 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The DA expressed anger at the Minister’s absence and said that the date of the meeting had been changed twice to accommodate the Minister. The Chairperson said that the Minister needed to be present at a Cabinet meeting as he needed to brief the Cabinet, but that ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Innovations for Improving Local Government Service Delivery: Armscor, CSIR, SALGA, MISA briefing
8 Nov 2017
The Committee met with ARMSCOR, CSIR, SALGA, MISA and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to receive a briefing on innovations from the institutions and its opinion on how the innovations could assist with improving service delivery in local government. Presentations were received from ARMSCOR, CSIR, and DST, while ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee minutes
7 Nov 2017
The committee met to consider and approval several outstanding minutes.
Most of the changes were minor in nature and related to grammar, spelling mistakes and correcting attendance.
There was a general view that dealing with minutes long after the meeting resulted in flaws with recollection and disputes about attendance of ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: adoption; Proposed Legislation: COGTA Update
24 Oct 2017
The Committee was presented with the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Amendment Bill B23 [B-version] - which was the revised version of the bill and included all the agreed amendments. Only two issues were flagged and immediately resolved. The first was around clause 19, where a paragraph would be omitted and substituted ...