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Ethics and Members' Interest
Meeting with City of Johannesburg delegation
22 Oct 2014
The Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests hosted the City of Johannesburg’s Ethics Committee. The purpose of the meeting, as stated by the Chairperson of the Joint Committee, was for the two committees to engage in a conversation on the issue of ethics and the importance of establishing and ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Workshop on the non-financial census of municipalities
22 Oct 2014
The meeting focused on the non-financial census of the municipalities. The initial agenda was slightly expanded to reflect Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA’s) responsibility of collecting data for the purpose of use when it interacts with the various sets of data, rather than presenting only on its functions, which revolved ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Parliament of Republic of South Africa vs Hon F Shivambu and 19 others
20 Oct 2014
Report of the meeting to follow
Ethics and Members' Interest
2014 Register of Members Interests: adoption
17 Sep 2014
The Committee dealt with the minutes of the 8 of July 2014 at length. The contention was that there was an election of a Committee whip, which the opposition parties felt that seeing that there was no rule providing for one in any Parliamentary Committee; there could have been no ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
PC Coop: Third Term Committee Programme & Other Matters
16 Sep 2014
The Committee considered and adopted its Third Term Programme. The Committee’s planned activities included a workshop with the Office of the Auditor-General on its role as well as engagement with the Budgetary Review and Recommendations process. Other notable agenda items included discussions on the linkage between service delivery and protest; ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Debt owed to municipalities: Department briefing; Municipal Infrastructure Grant: Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent & Department briefing
9 Sep 2014
The Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) briefed the Committee on the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG). The MIG was the largest local government infrastructure development funding in South Africa. The programme subsidised the capital costs of providing basic services to poor households. Developmental capacity of municipalities was enhanced. Over a 10 ...
Arts and Culture
Pan South African Language Board & Commission for Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities on their roles, mandates and issues requiring immediate attention
26 Aug 2014
The Joint meeting focused on two presentations from two Schedule one institutions of the Constitution established to advance democracy in South Africa. These were the Pan South African Language Board and the Commission for the Promotion & Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious & Linguistic Communities.
The Committees firstly ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Follow-up meeting with South African Local Government Association
19 Aug 2014
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) provided responses to questions posed by the Portfolio Committee, arising from a meeting held on 29 July 2014.
SALGA defined its core business as being a hub for research and human resource development to capacitate municipalities. Public participation and partnership with civil society ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
South Africa Local Government Association on its 2014 Strategic Plan
29 Jul 2014
SALGA presented its 2014/25 Annual Performance Plan, and listed its seven strategic priorities as accessible and equitable sustainable services; safe and healthy environment and communities; coherent local planning and economic development; effective, responsive and accountable local government; human capital development in local government; financially and organisationally capacitated municipalities; and effective ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Report on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 2014 Budget
10 Jul 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met for the consideration and adoption of the Annual Performance Plan and Budget Vote 3 of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. The Committee interrogated the report page by page, making comments in respect of its substantive content. The ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Election of Chairperson; Committee Report on Extension of deadline for MPs to disclose financial interests; Committee Programme
7 Jul 2014
The Committee met for the first time to elect its Co-Chairpersons. In a process led by the Registrar of Members Interests, Mr A Masondo (ANC) and Mr A Singh (ANC) were elected unopposed as the Joint Chairpersons of the Committee for the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces respectively. ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Election of Chairperson
24 Jun 2014
Mr Mzameni Richard Mdakane (ANC) was elected as Chairperson. There were no other nominations. The newly elected Chairperson urged Members to study the National Assembly Rules.