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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Department of Cooperative Governance on impact of SoNA on local government (focusing on progress report per province on Back to Basic programme)
16 Feb 2016
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) briefed the Committee on the implications of the recent State of the Nation Address (SONA) for the Department. A brief summary of the main points of the address were given. It was noted that the country is affected by global constraints ...
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Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill [B23-2015]: public hearings Day 2
3 Feb 2016
The Committee continued with the second day of its public hearings on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) commented that the levels of recognition were contradictory since clause 3 spoke to the President ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill [B23-15]: public hearings Day 1
2 Feb 2016
The Committee heard submissions from Natural Justice, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Finance and Fiscal Commission (FFC). There were also oral inputs from the Commission for Gender Equality, Western Cape Legislative Khoisan Council, a representative ...
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Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10C-15]: NCOP amendments; Planned public hearings on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill
17 Nov 2015
The Committee met briefly to adopt the amendments to the Disaster Management Amendment Bill. The only amendments to be made are on page four where Section 31 will change to Section 45A. The amendments were adopted.
The National Council of Provinces asked to be part of the public hearings, and ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi San Leadership Bill [B23-2015]: briefing, with Deputy Minister
27 Oct 2015
The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional said Chapter 12 of the Constitution recognised the role of traditional leaders. Parliament would, from time to time, give guidance and define the role of traditional leaders, in particular, aligning certain matters within the structures from the Traditional Affairs Framework Act into ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Budget Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
BRRR Archive: BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The Committee deliberated on its draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR).
The deliberations revolved around the following issues. The Committee had not received a response from the previous year’s BRRR, money budgeted for by the Municipal Demarcation Board for 28 ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Demarcation Board; CRL Commission on their 2014/15 Annual Reports
15 Oct 2015
The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) presented the MDB’s annual report for 2014/15. It had previously advised of an expected shortfall and had identified issues around incompatability between its resources, mandate and strategy, negative public perception; and lack of a provincial footprint that created disconnection with the public. The programmes and ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
COGTA; SALGA & Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) on their 2014/15 Annual Reports, with Minister present
14 Oct 2015
The Committee heard briefings from the Department of Cooperative Governance and the Department of Traditional Affairs as well as an overview and progress report from the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agents (MISA), as well as a presentation from SALGA on its Annual Report.
Minister Pravin Gordhan said the 2014/15 year had ...
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Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 2014/15 audit outcomes by Auditor-General
13 Oct 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs was briefed by the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the Department and the entities reporting to it.
AGSA said that there had been overall stagnation in audit outcomes in the past three years. ...
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Traditional Leaders Audit; Initiations Winter 2015 Report: Deputy Minister briefing
8 Sep 2015
The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the Department of Traditional Affairs briefed the Committee on the audit of traditional leaders which looked at the allocation of resources; the number of recognised traditional leaders per province and leadership positions as well as finalised and outstanding disputes and ...