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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Department of Cooperative Governances Annual Report audit outcome & 2018/19 Local Government audit outcomes: AGSA briefing, with Deputy Minister
19 Feb 2020
The Department of Cooperative Governance admitted it was facing challenges in managing the Community Work Programme (CPW) because money was being paid to deceased people, government employees, and inappropriate entities.
The AG made it clear the problems that besieged the programme were broader than the audit findings even though it ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Freedom of Religion SA on CRL Rights Commission recommendations
18 Feb 2020
The Committee had its first meeting of 2020 and adopted its Committee programme. The Committee agreed to conduct oversight in all provinces through monthly visits, from Thursday to Saturday once a month. Members compiled a list of dysfunctional municipalities in each province and agreed to prioritise these distressed areas in ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Meeting with Mogalakwena; Collins Chabane & Tzaneen Local Municipalities
6 Dec 2019
Mogalakwena Local Municipality response to Committee questions (awaited)
Three Limpopo local municipalities were called to appear before the Committee as a follow up to the Committee's oversight visit in October 2019 to Mogalakwena Local Municipality and Collins Chabane Local Municipality and to obtain a status report from Greater Tzaneen Local ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Systems Amendment Bill; CRL Rights Commission on commercialisation of religion; Vietnamese Parliament delegation
5 Dec 2019
ATC180214: Report Of The Pc on Cogta on the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) on the Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of Peoples Beliefs dated 14 February 2018
Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Act
South African Municipal ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
VBS Bank investment impact on Merafong City Local Municipality
4 Dec 2019
The Portfolio Committee did not get the logic behind the officials implicated in the R50m investment made to VBS Mutual Bank by the Merafong City Local Municipality only getting written warnings. They had failed in their fiduciary duties as required by the Municipal Financial Management Act to act in the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Meeting with City of Ekuruhleni Metro & Lekwa Local Municipality
3 Dec 2019
The Committee was told that the collapse in governance at Lekwa Municipality was giving the national Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs sleepless nights. They heard that the problems facing the municipality had started around 2016/17 financial year, when service providers wanted the municipality to be put under section ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional Indaba day 2
27 Nov 2019
Documents awaited
The Director-General of the Department of Traditional Affairs highlighted challenges with traditional leadership. One of these is remuneration and the varying resources available to these leaders in their respective communities. It noted the four different levels of traditional leadership as defined by law which include kings, queens, principal ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional Indaba day 1, with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
The institution of traditional leadership was being left on its own. This view surfaced during the traditional indaba involving the National House of Traditional Leaders and its provincial structures, and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
The objective of the traditional leaders’ indaba was to provide a ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
DCoG on the forensic investigation into the VIP toilets in Northern Cape and Eastern Cape
6 Nov 2019
The Committee was briefed by the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (Misa) on the ongoing dispute with a contractor over the installation of ventilated improved pit (VIP) toilets and waterborne systems in the Northern and Eastern Cape.
It heard how the contractor had been procured by Misa to assist the Amathole ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee’s draft oversight report
30 Oct 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met to consider its Draft Report on an oversight visit to Limpopo from 10 to 16 October 2019. The reason for this oversight visit to the province was necessitated by the VBS investments which the 16 municipalities in Limpopo conducted during ...