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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs; DTA & MISA 2017/18 Annual Reports; with Minister and Deputy Minister
11 Oct 2018
The Department of Traditional Affairs (DTA) presented its 2017/18 annual report, and highlighted that it had achieved 87% of its annual targets. It had not fulfilled its objective to determine if 350 traditional councils (TCs) were functional, as there was a need to first conduct an assessment ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
SALGA, MDB & CRL Commission 2017/18 Annual Reports
10 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs heard briefings on the Annual Reports by: South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) and the CRL Rights Commission. The Committee thanked and congratulated all the entities on their reports.
The briefing started with ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
COGTA audit outcomes: Auditor General briefing
9 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs received a briefing from the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA’)s audit outcomes for the 2017/18 financial year, including the outcomes of entities reporting to the Department.
The report ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill: stakeholder engagement
12 Sep 2018
The Committee met to receive submissions from stakeholders on the Customary Initiation Bill (CIB) [B7-2018]
It heard that SAPS fully supported the development of the CIB with its concerns flagged. Those included the fact that:
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Meeting with Mozambique delegation
11 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met with the Committee on Public Administration and Local Government of the Parliament of the Republic of Mozambique.
The Chairperson stated that it was a friendly meeting of colleagues to share their experiences on work they were doing in the system ...
Public Enterprises
Denel & SA Express Airways turnaround strategies
29 Aug 2018
Denel and SA Express briefed the Committee on their performance targets, governance challenges and turnaround strategies.
One of the most noteworthy changes for Denel brought by the new executive team is the Auditor General is now the External Auditor for Denel. This had strengthened the organisation tremendously. This also meant ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Eskom debt payments by municipalities: IMTT progress report; Local Economic Development
6 Jun 2018
The Department of Cooperative Governance briefed the Committee on the new sixth pillar of Back to Basics (B2B): Local Economic Development (LED) and gave a progress report from the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) on the payment of debt to Eskom by municipalities.
The Department reported that the 2018 Framework for ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Municipal Debt owed to Eskom: inputs by Eskom, COGTA, SALGA, National Treasury
16 May 2018
SCOPA met with Eskom, Department of Cooperative Governance (COGTA), South African Local Government Association (SALGA), and National Treasury to discuss municipal debts owed to Eskom. The Committee was concerned about the dangers the mounting debt posed to the financial sustainability of Eskom and the economy.
Eskom had reported in its ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
COGTA Budget: Committee Report
8 May 2018
The Committee added new observations and recommendations to the report. Firstly, the Committee observed the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs’ slow pace of processing legislation to Parliament such as experienced with the Local Government Amendment Bill, ENCA Bill, and Traditional leadership and Khoi- San Bill. It recommended that ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
VBS Bank impact on municipalities' finances; Municipal Councillors Pension Fund
25 Apr 2018
National Treasury said that the investment by municipalities of their grant funding in VBS Mutual Bank represented a breach of regulations. VBS had actively flouted the law, and focused on municipal deposits which comprised almost 75% of all its deposits. National Treasury had sent an email in August 2017 advising ...