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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: response to Auditor-General comments & deliberations
23 Aug 2017
The Parliamentary Law Adviser briefed the Committee on its response to comments made by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill. As expected the comments were of a technical legal nature and in some instances called for greater discussion.
The DA on Clause 39(1)(a) asked ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: Auditor-General submission
22 Aug 2017
Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) had sent a letter in September 2016 to the Committee outlining its comments on the Bill. The briefing did not to speak directly to that letter but would speak to issues that had arisen. One of the major concerns was how traditional councils would be doing ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Indigenous Indaba recommendations
16 Aug 2017
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Traditional Affairs on the Traditional and Indigenous Leadership Indaba, and specifically looked at the resolutions of traditional leaders that had emanated from that engagement.
The Committee was informed that the resolutions still had to be processes by the Department of Traditional ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: deliberations; Committee programme
15 Aug 2017
The Committee’s agenda for the meeting was originally for the Committee to deliberate on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill clause by clause. However the DA objected on the basis that public hearings on the Bill were not yet complete, and that the Committee could face a Constitutional Court challenge ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Local Government Audit Outcomes 2015/16: Auditor-General SA briefing
28 Jun 2017
Auditor-General South Africa gave a briefing on the Local Government Audit Outcomes. It said that as part of continual improvement it was focusing on improving accountability to improve audit outcomes. This would demand better planning, internal controls, monitoring and consequence management. The overall MFMA outcomes of 263 municipalities were looked ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Commercialisation of Religion and Abuse of People’s Belief Systems: CRL Rights Commission briefing
27 Jun 2017
The Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Commission (CRLRC) presented its report on the commercialisation of religion and the abuse of people’s belief systems to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance, and made recommendations to various departments such as the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), the Department of Social Development (DSD), ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional Leadership & Governance Framework Amendment Bill; Western Cape Disaster; Indigenous & Traditional Leaders Indaba, with Deputy Minister
21 Jun 2017
Amendment Bill [B8-2017], to be briefed on the fire disaster situation in the Western Cape, and to receive a report back on the outcome of the Indigenous and Traditional Leadership Indaba.
When the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Amendment Bill came up for discussion, the DA argued that procedurally the ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Amendment Bill: discussion
14 Jun 2017
The National House of Traditional Leaders submitted two amendments to the Committee. The first amendment was a change from a one year to a two year time frame for the reconstitution of the traditional councils, and removing “community” and replacing it with “council”. The second amendment was related to Section ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Minutes: adoption
30 May 2017
Documents handed out:
Draft Committee Minutes dated 14 February 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 21 February 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 28 February 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 7 March 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 24 March 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 3 May 2017
The Committee reviewed minutes from ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Bulk infrastructure: Department of Cooperative Governance briefing
16 May 2017
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) presented a report on the state of bulk infrastructure in municipalities to the Portfolio Committee. The main findings highlighted serious challenges in the state of the country’s infrastructure for the provision of housing, water, sanitation and electricity. The key issues identified ...