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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Structures Amendment Bill: stakeholder engagement & tagging: Customary Initiation Bill: adoption
14 Nov 2018
Northern Cape Province proposed that the minimum number for councillors in a municipality should be 15. It wanted the geographical size of a municipality to be a criterion when determining the number of councillors. This would mean there would be a minimum of 8 wards in a municipality. It proposed ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Structures Amendment Bill: stakeholder engagement
13 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee received comments on the Municipal Structures Amendment Bill [B19-2018] from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB). The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) had had the benefit of forming part ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Local Government Youth Development Forum; Customary Initiation Bill: deliberations
31 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) held an engagement with two youth organisations that were lobbying and advocating for the institutionalisation of youth development.
The Local Government Youth Development Forum (LGYDF) indicated that, as a multi-stakeholder organisation partnering with state-owned entities, it was planning to institutionalise ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill: deliberations on public comments
30 Oct 2018
The Committee deliberated on the public comments on the Bill which had been distilled into a 10 page document. Debate centred on abduction, circumcision, medical practitioners and the thorny matter of the minimum age for initiation.
The conundrum facing the Committee was that despite wide support from stakeholders and ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Minister on municipalities affected by VBS Bank collapse
23 Oct 2018
The COGTA Minister gave a highly anticipated briefing on reports that municipalities in Limpopo, Gauteng and the North West province had lost huge sums of money invested in the now infamous VBS Mutual Bank.
The briefing detailed steps taken by the Department in the wake of the collapse and curatorship ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRRR
17 Oct 2018
BRRR available here once published: 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider its draft Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRR Report following engagements with the Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and its various entities, as well as the Office of the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Customary Initiation Bill [B7-2018]: public hearings report; Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs BRRR
16 Oct 2018
Committee Report available once published 2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met to consider two draft reports. The first one was the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) regarding the annual performance of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and its various entities. ...
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 ...