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NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Section 139 intervention: Free State COGTA on intervention in Municipalities
28 Nov 2023
In an online platform, the Free State Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) presented a report on the four Free State municipalities that had been placed under Section 139 intervention.
The Mafube local municipality had undergone section 139 due to its failure to carry out its service ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Mary Mabore Raseale Petition; with Deputy Minister of Health
28 Nov 2023
The Select Committee on Security and Justice held a hybrid meeting to consider a petition by Ms Mary Mabore Raseale. Ms Raseale appealed to the Committee to assist her family in retrieving the body of her son, who died in September 2021.
The family said that, despite numerous trips ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Minister of Police Executive Undertaking on 30 May 2023
23 Nov 2023
The Deputy Minister of Police and the SA Police Service (SAPS) senior management was present to update the Committee on progress made implementing undertakings made by the Minister of Police during a NCOP plenary sitting on 30 May 2023.
The Committee had questions about the underspending and were concerned ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Correctional Services A/B: adoption; Judicial Matters A/B: public comment; Ministers of Police & Home Affairs Executive Undertakings
22 Nov 2023
In the virtual meeting, the Minister of Police provided a progress report on the six Executive Undertakings made at the Taking Parliament to the People in the Ugu District in KZN in November 2022. These included items such as the provision of a police station and a mobile community ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Section 139 intervention: termination of intervention in Emfuleni Local Municipality
21 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed on the province’s intervention in the Emfuleni Local Municipality in terms of section 139 (1)(b) of the Constitution.
The Committee was told that the Executive Council of the Gauteng Provincial Government decided to end the intervention by 31 August 2022. The appointed ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Postponed: Executive Undertakings: Minister of Police
16 Nov 2023
Due to the absence of the Minister and Deputy Minister of Police, the meeting was postponed to another date. It was noted that their presence was necessary to pass Committee resolutions. Members voiced their displeasure at the absence.
A Member also lamented the late submission of documents Members needed ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Correctional Services A/B: DCS briefing on public submissions; Divorce A/B; RICA Bill & Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill: DoJ&CD briefing; with Deputy Minister
15 Nov 2023
The Select Committee on Security and Justice held a virtual meeting to receive briefings on the responses to the public submissions on four bills:
NCOP Security and Justice
Protected Disclosures Act: Practical Guidelines for Employees; Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: proposed amendments
1 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Select Committee on Security and Justice adopted the Amendments to the Practical Guidelines for Employees on Protected Disclosures in terms of section 10(4)(b) of the Protected Disclosures Act, No 26 of 2000. It noted that it had been briefed on them the week before.
The ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Emfuleni Local Municipality petition
1 Nov 2023
In a virtual meeting, the Committee considered a petition brought by residents of Emfuleni Local Municipality which called for the assistance of the National Council of Provinces to investigate the state of electricity in their municipality.
The Committee raised concerns that the invited stakeholders had not attended the previous meeting ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Section 139 Interventions in KZN Municipalities
31 Oct 2023
The virtual meeting of the Select Committee received an update from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on the status of Section 139 interventions in municipalities in the province.
The Committee was told that since 2016, KZN had implemented Section 139 interventions in 12 municipalities, ...