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Adhoc Committee: WCPP Seats (WCPP)
Election of Chairperson
8 Jun 2022
The Ad Hoc Committee: WCPP Seats convened in a virtual meeting to elect its new Chairperson. It elected Mr A Van Der Westhuizen (DA) as its Chairperson.
The Committee was established to consider whether the number of seats in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament was suitable for the increasing ...
Local Government (WCPP)
Western Cape Appropriation Bill: Local Government
17 Mar 2022
The Western Cape Parliament's Standing Committee on Local Government deliberated on and adopted the budget of the Western Cape Department of Local Government for the 2022/23 financial year.
Among issues discussed was the establishment of a provincial house of traditional leaders and the coming into effect of ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Western Cape Appropriation Bill: Human Settlements
15 Mar 2022
The Committee convened to deliberate on the 2022 budget for the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements, led by its Minister.
In his opening remarks, the Minister expressed that he is excited about the national Minister’s announcement during the previous week, that Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Programme ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Department of Human Settlements; Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal 2020/21 Annual Report
2 Feb 2022
Western Cape Annual Reports 2020/21
The Committee met to discuss the Annual Reports for the Department of Human Settlements and its entity in the Western Cape Rental Housing Tribunal for the 2020 / 2021 financial year.
Some emerging themes were distribution backlogs, land invasions, discrepancies in reconciling housing and ...
Local Government (WCPP)
Western Cape Department of Local Government 2021/22 Adjusted Budget
7 Dec 2021
Western Cape Adjustments Appropriation Bill(link is external)
Publication: Western Cape Adjusted Estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure, 2021
The Western Cape Provincial Parliament’s Standing Committee on Local Government deliberated and adopted its report on the Adjusted Budget for Vote 14: Local Government as contained in the Western Cape Adjustment ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
Western Cape Department of Human Settlements Adjusted Budget 2021/22
7 Dec 2021
Western Cape Adjustments Appropriation Bill
Publication: Western Cape Adjusted Estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure, 2021
The Committee received a briefing from the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements on its Adjusted Budget 2021/22 with an upward adjustment of R57.08 million from R2.353 billion to R2.410 billion. These funds ...
Budget (WCPP)
Provincial Treasury on: Municipal Economic Review and Outlook (MERO); 2021 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statements (MTBPS) and Adjustments Budget
6 Dec 2021
Western Cape Adjustments Appropriation Bill(link is external)
Publication: Western Cape Adjusted Estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure, 2021
The Budget Committee met virtually to be briefed by the Provincial Treasury on the Municipal Economic Review and Outlook (MERO), 2021 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statements (MTBPS) and Adjustments Budget. The briefing ...
Infrastructure (WCPP)
District Six land restitution: public hearings
24 Nov 2021
In this meeting, the Committee heard oral submissions from more than a dozen former residents of District Six who had filed land restitution claims. The Committee emphasised that responsibility for land reform and restitution lay not with the provincial government but with the national Department of Agriculture, Land Reform ...
Local Government (WCPP)
Pandemic impact on financial sustainability of Western Cape municipalities: collaboration with Hanns Seidel Foundation
14 Sep 2021
The Department of Local Government introduced the research study conducted by the Stellenbosch University, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, on the impact of the pandemic on the financial sustainability of Western Cape municipalities. It pointed out there has been remarkable resilience in the short term in the ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA) (WCPP)
CASIDRA on findings raised by AGSA
3 Sep 2021
The WCPP Public Accounts Committee met on a virtual platform to be briefed by CASIDRA on the findings that were raised by the AGSA at the end of the 2019/20 financial year, including the measures formulated and implemented by the entity to avoid a future recurrence of the findings. ...