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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill: public hearings programme
1 Nov 2016
The Committee discussed the provisional programme for the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill public hearings to take place within the various provinces. The Chairperson explained that the Rural Alliance members had raised an issue regarding the durations allocated to the public hearings programme. The Rural Alliances indicated that it was ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs BRRR
20 Oct 2016
The Committee reviewed the draft of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (the Report) on the work of the Department of Cooperative Governance. Members were happy with the structure of the report, but made some recommendations to improve the wording. Members agreed that the work in Programme 5 was causing ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation on its 2015/16 Annual Report, with Minister present
20 Oct 2016
Documents handed out:
Department of Water and Sanitation 2015/16 Annual Report presentation [awaited]
The Minister of Water and Sanitation gave the Committee presented a summary of the Department’s 2014/15 Annual Report.
The Minister highlighted that the water sector across the value chain was affected negatively by a ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Municipal Demarcation Board, SALGA, Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent, National Disaster Management Centre on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
18 Oct 2016
The Municipality Demarcation Board (MDB) obtained a clean audit. There were however challenges on the usefulness and reliability of performance information. These challenges have been addressed in the new 2016/17 Annual Performance Plan (APP). MDB had irregular expenditure of R66 000 but it was a substantial improvement ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs & entities 2015/16 audit outcomes: Auditor-General briefing
11 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee received a briefing from the Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the audit outcomes of the 2015/16 annual reports of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), and entities reporting to it.
In terms of the 2015-16 audit outcomes and key messages, ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Upper Limits of Total Remuneration Packages for Municipal Managers; Councils establishment: Department of Cooperative Governance update
30 Aug 2016
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) briefed the Committee on the upper limits of total remuneration packages payable to Municipal Managers and managers directly accountable to Municipal Managers. It also updated the Committee on the consolidated database of municipalities.
The Minister published Notice No. 287 in Government ...
Water and Sanitation
Department of Water and Sanitation and Water Boards on 2016/17 water tariffs
25 May 2016
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by the Department of Water and Sanitation DWS) on the process it followed in setting raw and bulk water tariffs. The raw water charges included the funding of water resource management costs by water management institutions and the waste discharge charge system. Registered water use ...
Home Affairs
Local Government Elections: voter registrations; addresses plan for voters' roll: IEC briefing
17 May 2016
The Committee met with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to be briefed on the state of preparedness of the Commission to hold the upcoming local government elections on 3 August 2016. The comprehensive presentation informed the Committee of delimitation, the final wards delivery by the Municipal Demarcation Board for the ...
Water and Sanitation
Committee Report on Water and Sanitation Budget
4 May 2016
The Committee Report on the Department of Water and Sanitation 2016/17 Budget. Comments were about job creation in infrastructure programmes where skill sharing must take place; tariffs were an important concern and comparative models in other countries should be looked into to see how they are performing
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Committee Report on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Budget
13 Apr 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs met to consider the Committee Report on Budget Vote 4: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
The Democratic Alliance reserved its opinion on the report.
The Economic Freedom Fighters did not support the adoption of the report.
However, the Committee adopted the ...