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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: Clauses 25 to 37 deliberations
6 Sep 2017
The Committee deliberated on Clauses 25 to 37 of the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill working draft inclusive of proposed amendments. Members proposed further amendments to certain clauses. Some of the clauses that Members had concerns about were Clauses 25, 28, 33(1)(b) and 34(1).
In Clause 25, departments were responsible ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: deliberations
5 Sep 2017
The Committee continued deliberations on the working draft of the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill, covering clauses 16 to 24. Lengthy discussion ensued over clause 16 which dealt with the establishment of kingship or queenship council, principal traditional council or traditional council. The DA said that the clause 15(1) was ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill [B23-2015]: deliberations
30 Aug 2017
The Committee adopted its Committee Report and continued to deliberate on the Working Draft of the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill, discussing Clauses 5 to 14.
The Committee discussed the provision which expects Khoi-San leaders to submit a list of the members of their communities and the geographical area in ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: response to Auditor-General comments & deliberations
23 Aug 2017
The Parliamentary Law Adviser briefed the Committee on its response to comments made by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill. As expected the comments were of a technical legal nature and in some instances called for greater discussion.
The DA on Clause 39(1)(a) asked ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: Auditor-General submission
22 Aug 2017
Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) had sent a letter in September 2016 to the Committee outlining its comments on the Bill. The briefing did not to speak directly to that letter but would speak to issues that had arisen. One of the major concerns was how traditional councils would be doing ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Indigenous Indaba recommendations
16 Aug 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Traditional Affairs on the Traditional and Indigenous Leadership Indaba, and specifically looked at the resolutions of traditional leaders that had emanated from that engagement.
The Committee was informed that the resolutions still had to be processes by the Department of Traditional ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: deliberations; Committee programme
15 Aug 2017
The Committee’s agenda for the meeting was originally for the Committee to deliberate on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill clause by clause. However the DA objected on the basis that public hearings on the Bill were not yet complete, and that the Committee could face a Constitutional Court challenge ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Local Government Audit Outcomes 2015/16: Auditor-General SA briefing
28 Jun 2017
Auditor-General South Africa gave a briefing on the Local Government Audit Outcomes. It said that as part of continual improvement it was focusing on improving accountability to improve audit outcomes. This would demand better planning, internal controls, monitoring and consequence management. The overall MFMA outcomes of 263 municipalities were looked ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People’s Belief Systems: CRL Rights Commission briefing
27 Jun 2017
The Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Commission (CRLRC) presented its report on the commercialisation of religion and the abuse of people’s belief systems to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance, and made recommendations to various departments such as the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), the Department of Social Development (DSD), ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional Leadership & Governance Framework Amendment Bill: adoption
22 Jun 2017
Document:
Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Amendment Bill [B8A-2017] [email info@pmg.org.za]
The Committee met for the adoption of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Amendment Bill [B8-2017].
The Committee adopted the Bill. The DA objected to the entire Bill as it claimed that the Bill contained a number of ...