Ms Faith Muthambi

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Faith Muthambi

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill: stakeholder engagement; Indaba on harmful religious practices
    10 Mar 2020

    The Portfolio Committee convened an Indaba to address harmful religious practices. It also heard a verbal submission from a trade union regarding the effect on labour of the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill.

    The SA Municipal Workers Union said the amendment as it stood had two areas of concerns -- the ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill: deliberations
    4 Mar 2020

    The Committee met to deliberate on the Local Government Municipal Systems Amendment Bill, and received a number of proposals from the Western Cape government.

    The province proposed that the acting period for municipal officials should be extended for a period of up to nine months, compared to the current three ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Outcomes of forensic investigations in local government by: input from SIU, NPA, Hawks & DCoG; with Deputy Minister
    3 Mar 2020

    The Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG), the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) provided the Committee with detailed reports on the status of their campaigns against corruption at municipalities throughout South Africa.

    The DCoG gave an assurance that it ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Mogalakwena Local Municipality intervention
    28 Feb 2020

    Documents handed out:
    Letter from State Security Agency: Candidates’ Employment Suitability Checks (for position of Municipal Manager: Mogalakwena) (for Committee members only – confidential)
    Terms of Reference for the Intervention (for Committee members only – confidential)

    Senior officials from the Mogalakwena Local Municipality appeared before the Portfolio Committee to brief it ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department of Cooperative Governances Annual Report audit outcome & 2018/19 Local Government audit outcomes: AGSA briefing, with Deputy Minister
    19 Feb 2020

    The Department of Cooperative Governance admitted it was facing challenges in managing the Community Work Programme (CPW) because money was being paid to deceased people, government employees, and inappropriate entities.

    The AG made it clear the problems that besieged the programme were broader than the audit findings even though it ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Freedom of Religion SA on CRL Rights Commission recommendations
    18 Feb 2020

    The Committee had its first meeting of 2020 and adopted its Committee programme. The Committee agreed to conduct oversight in all provinces through monthly visits, from Thursday to Saturday once a month. Members compiled a list of dysfunctional municipalities in each province and agreed to prioritise these distressed areas in ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Meeting with Mogalakwena; Collins Chabane & Tzaneen Local Municipalities
    6 Dec 2019

    Mogalakwena Local Municipality response to Committee questions (awaited)

    Three Limpopo local municipalities were called to appear before the Committee as a follow up to the Committee's oversight visit in October 2019 to Mogalakwena Local Municipality and Collins Chabane Local Municipality and to obtain a status report from Greater Tzaneen Local ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs VBS Bank investment impact on Merafong City Local Municipality
    4 Dec 2019

    The Portfolio Committee did not get the logic behind the officials implicated in the R50m investment made to VBS Mutual Bank by the Merafong City Local Municipality only getting written warnings. They had failed in their fiduciary duties as required by the Municipal Financial Management Act to act in the ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Meeting with City of Ekuruhleni Metro & Lekwa Local Municipality
    3 Dec 2019

    The Committee was told that the collapse in governance at Lekwa Municipality was giving the national Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs sleepless nights. They heard that the problems facing the municipality had started around 2016/17 financial year, when service providers wanted the municipality to be put under section ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Traditional Indaba day 2
    27 Nov 2019

    Documents awaited

    The Director-General of the Department of Traditional Affairs highlighted challenges with traditional leadership. One of these is remuneration and the varying resources available to these leaders in their respective communities. It noted the four different levels of traditional leadership as defined by law which include kings, queens, principal ...