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Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Water provision to Limpopo residents
3 Mar 2020
Following a February 2020 oversight visit by the Committee to assess water and sanitation infrastructure in Giyani and Polokwane, the Committee called in the National and Limpopo Department of Water and Sanitation to brief it on Limpopo water and sanitation performance and challenges specifically via Nandoni and De Hoop Dams. ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Status of housing provision in Gauteng: National & Provincial Department briefing; with Deputy Minister
18 Feb 2020
The briefing by the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements was structured to give clear details of the issues faced by the province within the housing sector. The province was currently experiencing a housing crisis as a result of immigration and several other contributing factors. The influx of about 300 000 ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Community Schemes Ombud Services; Estate Agency Affairs Board progress reports
3 Dec 2019
The Community Schemes Ombud Services (CSOS) said that there has been a failure thus far to identify all the community schemes and track them on a database to ensure that all submitted their levies. To remedy this they will liaise with the Deeds Office to get a list of owners ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
DWS Turnaround Strategy performance: response to Committee Questions; with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2019
Department of Human Settlements & Department of Water and Sanitation 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance
The meeting was a follow up to the briefing by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on 19 November 2019. The Committee noted that it was an improved presentation.
Water sales debt and poor supply ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Human Settlements & Department of Water and Sanitation 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance
19 Nov 2019
The Department of Human Settlements and the Department of Water and Sanitation reported on their performance for the second quarter of the 2019/20 financial year.
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) said it had spent R12.9 billion of its R33.8 billion allocation. This included the transfers to metros and provinces, ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Municipal Water Debt solutions; with Deputy Ministers
5 Nov 2019
This was a continuation of the 29 October joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs about resolving municipal debt to water boards which has been increasing at an alarming rate. The Committees interrogated the presentations made ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Debt owed to water boards: input from COGTA, SALGA, National Treasury & DWS
29 Oct 2019
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs were jointly briefed about resolving the debt of municipalities to the water boards.
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) spoke on the role it played to assist municipalities in ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report 2019
25 Oct 2019
Available here once adopted: BRRR 2019
The Committee considered and adopted the Committee's Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR) for the Department of Human Settlements.
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on outstanding debt owed to entities
22 Oct 2019
The Department of Water and Sanitation briefed the Committee on the efforts being made to recover funds owed to entities responsible for ensuring a supply of water to South Africa’s urban and rural communities. The municipalities’ water-use debt to the Water Trading Entity (WTE) and water boards had escalated by ...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation
HDA & SHRA 2018/19 Annual Reports
15 Oct 2019
The governance of the entities of the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation was keeping the Minister awake at night.
Mr Joseph Leshabane, Acting Director-General in the Department of Human Settlements, made this revelation during the discussion with the Portfolio Committee on the Housing Development Agency ...