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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Community Works Programme, with Deputy Minister present
7 Mar 2017
Deputy Minister Andries Nel said the Community Works Programme was one of government’s programmes seeking to address inequality, poverty and unemployment, and was part of a social safety net for the very poor. The Programme had created 238 000 work opportunities and had been rolled out to 234 municipalities, with 84% ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill final draft: Western Cape public hearings
30 Nov 2016
The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill, 2015 had been drafted but before getting a final version of the Bill from the drafters, Parliament wished to hear public hearings that would give input into the draft. Members of the public who were present to make comments included paramount chiefs, headmen and ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SANRAL & COGTA: hearing on irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, with Ministerial input
16 Nov 2016
The Committee interrogated the fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure reported by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) in relation to the financial statements for 2015/16, for the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) and Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). The Deputy Minister of Transport, and the Minister and ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Drought situation in Free State: Water Affairs briefing; State of South African Cities 2016: South African Cities Network briefing
8 Nov 2016
The delegation from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) presented on the issue of drought in the Free State, describing the issues that faced the province, as well as putting forward the many steps the DWS was taking to combat the impact of the drought.
The delegation noted that ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: public hearings programme
1 Nov 2016
The Committee discussed the provisional programme for the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill public hearings to take place within the various provinces. The Chairperson explained that the Rural Alliance members had raised an issue regarding the durations allocated to the public hearings programme. The Rural Alliances indicated that it was ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRRR
20 Oct 2016
The Committee reviewed the draft of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (the Report) on the work of the Department of Cooperative Governance. Members were happy with the structure of the report, but made some recommendations to improve the wording. Members agreed that the work in Programme 5 was causing ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Demarcation Board, SALGA, Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent, National Disaster Management Centre on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
18 Oct 2016
The Municipality Demarcation Board (MDB) obtained a clean audit. There were however challenges on the usefulness and reliability of performance information. These challenges have been addressed in the new 2016/17 Annual Performance Plan (APP). MDB had irregular expenditure of R66 000 but it was a substantial improvement ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
CRL Rights Commission 2015/16 Annual Report
13 Oct 2016
The Committee met to be briefed on the 2015/16 annual report of the Commission for the promotion and protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission).
The Commission said it had maintained its status of receiving an unqualified audit opinion from the Auditor General (AG). ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Minister and Deputy Minister in attendance
12 Oct 2016
The Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs presented their 2015/16 annual reports to the Committee, which also heard progress reports on the implementation of the Integrated Urban Development Framework and the finalisation of transitional measures in newly-established municipalities. A status report on the application of Section 139 of the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs & entities 2015/16 audit outcomes: Auditor-General briefing
11 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing from the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the 2015/16 annual reports of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and entities reporting to it.
In terms of the 2015-16 audit outcomes and key messages, ...