2023-w2177 - 03 July 2023

Haseena Ismail to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

What (a) projects did each municipality in each province (i) initiate and (ii) implement using the Municipal Infrastructure Grant in the past two financial years and (b) is the status of each specified project?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 3 Jul 2023

Enclosed find a list (Annexure A) of project with the projects with expenditure reported in 2021/22 and 2022/23. Note the 2022/23 municpal financial year ends at the end of June 2023 and the list provides information as at April 2023.

Futher information and follow-up may be directed to National Treasury as they oversee overall MIG performance and spending.

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2023-w2064 - 28 June 2023

Jacobus Frederik Smalle to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(a) What (i) is the total number and (ii) are the names of municipalities that have access to aviation support and (b) what is the (i) total number of aviation fleet available in each municipality and (ii) breakdown to the specification of the fleet?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 28 Jun 2023

The department does not maintain a record of the necessary data required by respectable member. It is advised that the inquiry be forwarded to the Department of Transport since it is in charge of aviation-related operations, including the creation of airport plans that serve as a blueprint for all current and future airport improvements.

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2023-w2232 - 28 June 2023

Khanya Ceza to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Whether she intends to demand (a) detailed reports from each municipality with regard to all municipal contracts and/or tenders and (b) Special Investigating Unit reports of the three financial years to improve accountability; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 28 Jun 2023

Municipalities are required to publish all tenders and contracts on their website and also on the municipal notice boards in accordance with section 75 of the  Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA). In addition, MFMA circular 83 advocates for publication of procurement information on tender portal, which requires municipalities to pulish all bids, awarded bids, cancelled bids, deviations, variations & extensions of existing contracts on ...

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2023-w2176 - 28 June 2023

Haseena Ismail to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(1)What amount did each municipality in each province receive from the Municipal Infrastructure Grant in the past two financial years; (2) what amount of the specified grant did each municipality in each province actually (a) spend, (b) not spend and (c) return to the National Treasury?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 28 Jun 2023

The information required by Honourable member is monitored by the National Treasury. It is recommended that the question be directed to Minister of Finance for the National Treasury to provide responses accordingly.

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2023-w1979 - 28 June 2023

Khanya Ceza to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

In light of the recent rains which have severely affected communities in Gqeberha, what urgent support measures has the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent put in place to refurbish the (a) drainage infrastructure planning, (b) expansion and (c) maintenance in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 28 Jun 2023

The Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) did not provide any urgent support measures to Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMBMM) as the NMBMM’s Disaster Management Center and Emergency Teams had technical capacity to attend to the floods. MISA remains available to augment and provide support to NMBMM as and when needed, the same way MISA does not low and medium capacity municipalities.

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2023-w1878 - 28 June 2023

Sbuyiselwe Angela Buthelezi to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(1)​Whether her department has given traditional leaders a role to play to ensure that their constituencies still have shelter and are catered for when projects of Government take long to get off the ground and, in some instances, to be completed; if not, why not; if so, what role do traditional leaders play; (2) whether there are any communal shelters that are built and readily available to cater for such eventualities; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?NW2130E

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 28 Jun 2023

1. Roles are given to traditional leaders in terms of section 25 of the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act, 2019 (Act No. 3 of 2019). In this regard, a national or provincial department can only give roles to traditional leaders in respect of functional areas of such a department. The building of shelters is not a functional competence of the Department of Traditional Affairs. ...

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2023-w2204 - 19 June 2023

Anna Maria Van Zyl to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(1) (a) What are the details of each Category (i) A, (ii) B and (iii) C municipality in each province that has functioning firefighting services for structural, mountainous, veld and/or hazmat fires and (b) which of the specified municipalities (i) have their own fleet and (ii) rely on rentals; (2) what are the details of each Category (a) A, (b) B and (c) C municipality in each province that has no firefighting services? NW2501E

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 19 Jun 2023

Figure 1 below provides details of the municipalities across the country regarding

1. What are the details of each Category (i) A, (ii) B and (iii) C municipality in each province that has functioning firefighting services for structural, mountainous, veld and/or hazmat fires and (b) which of the specified municipalities (i) have their own fleet and (ii) rely on rentals;

(2) what are the ...

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2023-w1923 - 19 June 2023

Laetitia Heloise Arries to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Whether she has been informed of the complaints by King MisuZulu that he is being micro-managed by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what steps has she taken to (a) mediate the relationship and (b) ensure that the King is allowed to function without undue interference by the provincial government? ​​​​​​​

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 19 Jun 2023

No. I have not been informed of the complaints the Honourable Member is referring to. The Department of Traditional Affairs has accordingly referred the matter to the KZN Office of the Premier and we will await their feedback in this regard.

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2023-w1858 - 19 June 2023

Werner Horn to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

What are the costs to date to her department related to the national intervention into the administration of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, with reference to national government departments and the specified municipality?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 19 Jun 2023

The total costs to date incurred by the Department in relation to the national intervention into the administration of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality are R 2, 006 283, 13.

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2023-w1986 - 09 June 2023

Shirley Motshegoane Mokgotho to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Whether her department is responsible for putting measures in place where municipalities encounter irregular billing systems; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what measures has she put in place to bring relief to residents of the City of Matlosana Local Municipality, who have had to endure exorbitant electricity costs, due to an irregular billing system used by the specified municipality?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 9 Jun 2023

Municipalities are at the liberty of choosing their own financial system that they utilise to, amongst other things, bill their customers. In this regard, the Minister has no legal oligation/authority to put measures in place to regulate the functionality of the billing systems of municipalities because each system operates differently. In relation to the billing system being utilised by the City of Matlosana Local Municipality, ...

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