2023-w3434 - 20 November 2023

Ignatius Michael Groenewald to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional

(1) What was the total annual expenditure countrywide from 1 April 2019 to date on the (a) deployment to provinces and municipalities and (b) payments of administrators in terms of section 139 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and the Municipal Finance Management Act, Act 56 of 2003, by the (i) national Government, (ii) provinces and (iii) municipalities. (2) whether she will make a statement on the matter?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional on 20 Nov 2023

1. a) The prerogative to invoke Section 139 as stipulated in the Constitution vests in the Provincial Executive Committees (b) and they also decide the remuneration of Administrators. National government, through the National Treasury, had invoked Section 139 (7) in Lekwa (Mpumalanga), Mangaung (Free State) and Enoch Mgijima (Eastern Cape) led by National Cabinet Representatives (NCRs). The following is the breakdown of the contract ...

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