1. Background and Overview 1.1 The Select Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs having considered the request made by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on 10 March 2010, to consider and report on the extension request of the intervention in terms of section 139 (1)(b) of the Constitution at Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality by the North-West Provincial Executive Council (PEC), reports as follows: