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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Evictions in Cape Town; with Ministry
3 Jul 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, (NA) 3 July 2020
In the presence of the Minister, Ms Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma and Deputy Minister, Mr Obed Bapela, the Executive Mayor of the City of Cape Town and Members of his Mayoral Committee appeared before the Committee to brief it ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill; with Deputy Minister
5 Jun 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 5 June 2020
In a previous meeting on 20 May 2020, the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), agreed to present evidence supporting the professionalisation of local government as prescribed in the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill [B2-2019]; with Deputy Ministers
28 May 2020
Video: Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,, 28 May 2020
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) deliberated with the Committee on the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill following a court ruling that the Bill should be tagged to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), and thus ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
COGTA Budget: Committee Report
21 May 2020
PMG was not present at the meeting. The below is compiled based on the Committee’s official minutes
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
Municipal Systems Amendment Bill; CRL Rights Commission on commercialisation of religion; Vietnamese Parliament delegation
5 Dec 2019
ATC180214: Report Of The Pc on Cogta on the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) on the Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of Peoples Beliefs dated 14 February 2018
Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Act
South African Municipal ...
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 ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional Indaba day 1, with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
The institution of traditional leadership was being left on its own. This view surfaced during the traditional indaba involving the National House of Traditional Leaders and its provincial structures, and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
The objective of the traditional leaders’ indaba was to provide a ...