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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Report on CRL Rights Commission Report on Regulation of religion and abuse of people’s beliefs
30 Jan 2018
The Committee met to discuss its own report based on the CRL Rights Commission Report on the regulation of religion and abuse of people’s beliefs.
It noted that there would always be those against the regulation of religion which was an ideological debate; however it was important that Government intervene ...
Energy
Electricity distribution industry sector and rehabilitation of infrastructure: Inter-Ministerial Task Team update; with Deputy Minister
28 Nov 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Energy and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met to receive a presentation from an Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT). The presentation dealt with constitutional challenges relating to electricity reticulation. Concerns were raised early on about the absence of many key members of the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
National Disaster Management Centre Annual Report 2016/17
15 Nov 2017
Annual Reports 2016/17
The DA expressed anger at the Minister’s absence and said that the date of the meeting had been changed twice to accommodate the Minister. The Chairperson said that the Minister needed to be present at a Cabinet meeting as he needed to brief the Cabinet, but that ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Innovations for Improving Local Government Service Delivery: Armscor, CSIR, SALGA, MISA briefing
8 Nov 2017
The Committee met with ARMSCOR, CSIR, SALGA, MISA and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to receive a briefing on innovations from the institutions and its opinion on how the innovations could assist with improving service delivery in local government. Presentations were received from ARMSCOR, CSIR, and DST, while ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee minutes
7 Nov 2017
The committee met to consider and approval several outstanding minutes.
Most of the changes were minor in nature and related to grammar, spelling mistakes and correcting attendance.
There was a general view that dealing with minutes long after the meeting resulted in flaws with recollection and disputes about attendance of ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Finance Recovery Service: National Treasury & COGTA briefing
1 Nov 2017
The Committee met to be briefed by National Treasury and Department of Cooperative Governance on the Municipal Finance Recovery Service. Collectively, Government was found wanting where the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) placed obligation on national and provincial governments to assist in resolving financial problems at municipalities. Often the step ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: adoption; Proposed Legislation: COGTA Update
24 Oct 2017
The Committee was presented with the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Amendment Bill B23 [B-version] - which was the revised version of the bill and included all the agreed amendments. Only two issues were flagged and immediately resolved. The first was around clause 19, where a paragraph would be omitted and substituted ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
CRL Rights Commission Report: Commercialisation of Religion & Abuse of People's Belief Systems Day 2 hearing & Commission response
18 Oct 2017
Documents handed out: Wesleyan Church of Southern Africa (WCSA) submission [awaited]; Christian Science church submission [awaited]; Reach SA submission [awaited];South African Institute for Professional Pastors, Reverends and Ministers (SAIPPREM) submission [awaited]; National Interfaith Council of South Africa (NICSA) submission [awaited]; South African Interfaith Council (SAICO) submission [awaited]; Christians for Peace in South Africa (CPSA) submission [awaited]; Church Leadership ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
CRL Rights Commission Report: Commercialisation of Religion & Abuse of People's Belief Systems: hearings Day 1
17 Oct 2017
Submissions were made by 18 religious organisations and churches on the recommendations and proposals of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRLC) report Commercialisation of Religion & Abuse of People's Belief Systems. Most of the organisations objected to the CRLC ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
11 Oct 2017
The Committee met briefly to consider and make changes to the draft budgetary review and recommendations report of the Department of Cooperative and Traditional Affairs (COGTA). Members took a snap survey of all the sections in the document, including, among others, Committee mandate to see if the Department (COGTA) is ...