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NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Independent Municipal Demarcation Authority Bill update; with Deputy Minister
7 May 2024
The Select Committee held a virtual meeting to consider whether it should proceed with the Independent Municipal Demarcation Authority Bill [B14B-2022] despite it still not having received the negotiating mandate from the Eastern Cape.
Since it is a Section 76 Bill, provinces have to prepare and present a negotiating ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrate Commission Reports; Committee Legacy Report
24 Apr 2024
The Select Committee held a virtual meeting to consider Magistrate Commission reports on the removal of Magistrates Raath, Maharaj, Hinxa and Dyeyi, the provisional suspension of Magistrates Govender and Singh, as well as the two-week upliftment of the provisional suspension of Magistrate Bodlani.
All the Magistrate Commission’s reports were ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Committee Legacy Report
24 Apr 2024
The Committee met on a virtual platform to consider and adopt its legacy report which covered the Committee’s activities during the Sixth Parliament (2019-2024). The Committee focused on challenges and recommendations. Challenges included COVID19, the absence of rules or guidelines to guide the work of the Committee, non-attendance of ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Independent Municipal Demarcation Authority Bill: Department response to Negotiating Mandates
23 Apr 2024
The Select Committee convened virtually to be briefed by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) on its response to the provinces' negotiating mandates on the Municipal Demarcation Authority Bill [B14B-2022].
COGTA's presentation detailed the suggestions made by the provinces in their negotiating mandates and indicated whether ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Suspension/removal/upliftment of Magistrates from office & Progress Reports
17 Apr 2024
The Select Committee on Security and Justice held a virtual meeting to receive a briefing from the Magistrates Commission on the removal or suspension of several of its magistrates.
The Committee described the significant delays in finalising several of these matters as "unacceptable" and called on the chairperson of ...
Defence
NCACC 2023 Annual Report; Legacy Report; with Minister
28 Mar 2024
The Joint Standing Committee on Defence met virtually to receive a briefing from the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) on its 2023 annual report. It also considered and adopted the Committee's Legacy Report for the Sixth Parliament, and reviewed outstanding minutes.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Housing Consumer Protection Bill: Final Mandates & adoption
26 Mar 2024
The Select Committee adopted the Housing Consumer Protection (HCP) Bill, with support from all nine provinces. The Committee also approved the accompanying report.
The Bill seeks to ensure adequate protection of housing consumers and effective regulation of the home building industry by strengthening protection measures, regulatory and enforcement mechanisms, ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Electoral Matters Amendment Bill: adoption
20 Mar 2024
The Select Committee held a brief meeting to consider the Electoral Matters Amendment (EMA) Bill and its accompanying report.
The Bill makes consequential amendments, which arise from the introduction of independent candidates and independent representatives in the National Assembly and provincial legislatures.
The bill was adopted despite objections from ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Municipal Demarcation Authority Bill: COGTA response to negotiating mandates & Legal Opinion on matters raised by WCP and ECPL; with Deputy Minister
19 Mar 2024
The Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements convened in a virtual meeting to hear the Department's responses to the tabled negotiating mandates on the Municipal Demarcation Authority Bill, and to hear a procedural and legal opinion on the requests tabled by ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Electoral Matters Amendment Bill: deliberations (with Deputy Minister)
19 Mar 2024
The Select Committee on Security and Justice deliberated on the Electoral Matters Amendment (EMA) Bill, which seeks to amend the Political Party Funding Act (PPFA), and align various pieces of legislation with the Electoral Amendment Act 2023.
The DA and IFP objected to the Bill because the 90/10 political ...