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Local Government Elections: voter registrations; addresses plan for voters' roll: IEC briefing
17 May 2016
The Committee met with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to be briefed on the state of preparedness of the Commission to hold the upcoming local government elections on 3 August 2016. The comprehensive presentation informed the Committee of delimitation, the final wards delivery by the Municipal Demarcation Board for the ...
Water and Sanitation
Drought and Climate Change progress report by COGTA, DWS, DEA, DAFF
16 Mar 2016
In a joint committee meeting, four departments presented their collaborative strategy in dealing with the ongoing drought and climate change. The National Disaster Management Centre of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) spoke about the joint drought committee of all relevant departments that has been set up ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
COGTA response to Oversight Questions; CRL Rights Commission & Municipal Demarcation Board 2016 Annual Performance Plan
15 Mar 2016
The Department answered written questions posed by the Committee in a follow up to previous meetings on its Annual Performance Plan.
Members asked what bucket eradication programme was being referred to when COGTA noted that R350m was added to the bucket toilet eradication programme. The increase in the Municipal Demarcation ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on its Annual Performance Plan 2016
8 Mar 2016
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) presented its Annual Performance Plan (APP) for the final year of the current administration. SALGA looked at its evolution since its inception in November 1996. Local government had come a long way since 2000 moving from a highly fragmented racially based system to ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
National Khoi-San Council briefing; Traditional Authorities in Ghana; COGTA Annual Performance Plan discussion
2 Mar 2016
The Committee heard from the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) on strengthening endogenous development in Ghana by looking at the role of traditional authorities in Ghana’s contemporary development and from the National Khoi and San Council (NKSC) before continuing discussions, held over from the previous day, on ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Black Industrialists Policy: Department of Trade and Industry briefing
24 Feb 2016
The Department of Trade and Industry provided a background to the Black Industrialists Policy (BIP) and described how it was expected to bolster economic development in South Africa. The DTI explained that the South African economy had experienced stunted growth as a result of the legacy of Apartheid, which excluded ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Department of Cooperative Governance on impact of SoNA on local government (focusing on progress report per province on Back to Basic programme)
16 Feb 2016
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) briefed the Committee on the implications of the recent State of the Nation Address (SONA) for the Department. A brief summary of the main points of the address were given. It was noted that the country is affected by global constraints ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill [B23-2015]: public hearings Day 2
3 Feb 2016
The Committee continued with the second day of its public hearings on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) commented that the levels of recognition were contradictory since clause 3 spoke to the President ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill [B23-15]: public hearings Day 1
2 Feb 2016
The Committee heard submissions from Natural Justice, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Finance and Fiscal Commission (FFC). There were also oral inputs from the Commission for Gender Equality, Western Cape Legislative Khoisan Council, a representative ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Withholding/late transfer of equitable share; Department of Cooperative Governance BRRR; Demarcation Transitional Grant; Report on municipal forensic reports; MISA Post Audit Action Plan, in presence of Deputy Minister
28 Oct 2015
The Department of Cooperative Governance (the Department) in the presence of the Deputy Minister, gave a presentation and tabled reports to the Committee on the progress made on various recommendations from the Committee. The Department firstly outlined the progress in addressing the recommendations of the Committee in the 2014 Budgetary ...