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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill final draft: Western Cape public hearings
30 Nov 2016
The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill, 2015 had been drafted but before getting a final version of the Bill from the drafters, Parliament wished to hear public hearings that would give input into the draft. Members of the public who were present to make comments included paramount chiefs, headmen and ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
State of traditional affairs in South Africa: Department of Traditional Affairs briefing, with Deputy Minister
23 Nov 2016
Document handed out:
Presentation on the state of traditional affairs in South Africa [awaited]
The Department of Traditional Affairs briefed the Committee on the state of traditional affairs in South Africa in the presence of the Deputy Minister. The Department highlighted that the presentation would be based on the research ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Drought situation in Free State: Water Affairs briefing; State of South African Cities 2016: South African Cities Network briefing
8 Nov 2016
The delegation from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) presented on the issue of drought in the Free State, describing the issues that faced the province, as well as putting forward the many steps the DWS was taking to combat the impact of the drought.
The delegation noted that ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: public hearings programme
1 Nov 2016
The Committee discussed the provisional programme for the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill public hearings to take place within the various provinces. The Chairperson explained that the Rural Alliance members had raised an issue regarding the durations allocated to the public hearings programme. The Rural Alliances indicated that it was ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Demarcation Board, SALGA, Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent, National Disaster Management Centre on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
18 Oct 2016
The Municipality Demarcation Board (MDB) obtained a clean audit. There were however challenges on the usefulness and reliability of performance information. These challenges have been addressed in the new 2016/17 Annual Performance Plan (APP). MDB had irregular expenditure of R66 000 but it was a substantial improvement ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
CRL Rights Commission 2015/16 Annual Report
13 Oct 2016
The Committee met to be briefed on the 2015/16 annual report of the Commission for the promotion and protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission).
The Commission said it had maintained its status of receiving an unqualified audit opinion from the Auditor General (AG). ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs & entities 2015/16 audit outcomes: Auditor-General briefing
11 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing from the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the 2015/16 annual reports of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and entities reporting to it.
In terms of the 2015-16 audit outcomes and key messages, ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee programme
20 Sep 2016
The Committee met to consider and adopt the minutes of previous meetings, as well as the fourth term draft programme.
At the outset of considering the adoption of minutes, a Member pointed out that minutes for only six of the possible 21 meetings had been documented. It was agreed that ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Upper Limits of Total Remuneration Packages for Municipal Managers; Councils establishment: Department of Cooperative Governance update
30 Aug 2016
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) briefed the Committee on the upper limits of total remuneration packages payable to Municipal Managers and managers directly accountable to Municipal Managers. It also updated the Committee on the consolidated database of municipalities.
The Minister published Notice No. 287 in Government ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Forensic reports of municipalities: Department of Cooperative Governance briefing
23 Aug 2016
The Department of Cooperative Governance (the Department) gave a presentation on the forensic reports that had been commissioned by provinces and municipalities, into the situation in various municipalities. Across the country, 109 forensic reports had been received, and the presentation focused on the broad areas of misconduct that were discovered ...