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Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on its Annual Performance Plan 2016
8 Mar 2016
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) presented its Annual Performance Plan (APP) for the final year of the current administration. SALGA looked at its evolution since its inception in November 1996. Local government had come a long way since 2000 moving from a highly fragmented racially based system to ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
National Khoi-San Council briefing; Traditional Authorities in Ghana; COGTA Annual Performance Plan discussion
2 Mar 2016
The Committee heard from the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) on strengthening endogenous development in Ghana by looking at the role of traditional authorities in Ghana’s contemporary development and from the National Khoi and San Council (NKSC) before continuing discussions, held over from the previous day, on ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Department of Cooperative Governance on 2015/16 3rd & 4th Quarter performance; Budget Vote 3 & Annual Performance Plan: briefing, with Minister present
1 Mar 2016
The Minister and officials from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) presented the Department’s performance report for the 2014/15 financial year and its annual performance plan for 2016/17.
The Department achieved a considerable percentage of its targets (70%), with a substantial portion still in progress (27%). Some ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
uMkhanyakude District Municipality Intervention: briefing by MEC
16 Feb 2016
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs spoke about the Intervention of uMkhanyakude District Municipality in terms of Section 139(1)(b) of the Constitution. The Administrator in charge of the intervention in the municipality provided a progress report.
The presentation focused on the background and basis for invoking ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Review of National Assembly Rules: consideration of Subcommittee Report
20 Nov 2015
The Rules Committee met to consider the Subcommittee Report on the Review of the National Assembly Rules. The ANC supported the proposed new criteria for the processing of motions without notice. The criteria were now that at least five parties including the majority party and the largest minority party should ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
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 ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
National dialogue on Ethics: workshop
6 Nov 2015
The Committee had had two workshops so far on the Code of Conduct and ethical behaviour for public office bearers, and this was the third one. The first aim of the workshop was to help the Committee develop a common understanding of a Code of Conduct, which outlined the minimum ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Register of Members’ Interests 2015: adoption
28 Oct 2015
Documents handed out: 2015 Register of Members’ Interests
The Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests met briefly to consider and adopt the 2015 Register of Members’ Interests.
Before they could proceed, it was noted that there were not enough Members to form a quorum and a suggestion was made that ...