Mrs Nokukhanya Mthembu

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Nokukhanya Mthembu

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Executive Leadership & Management Programme in Sustainable Human Settlement: University Stellenbosch briefing; SA Local Government Association on draft Backyard Rental Strategy
    2 Jun 2015

    The University of Stellenbosch briefed the Committee on the Executive Leadership and Management Programme in Sustainable Human Settlement Development, which was a postgraduate Diploma with 12 SAQA credits. Members of the Committee would be starting the course in the last week of recess. Focus areas were sustainable development, public management, ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Withholding equitable share from municipalities: input by Department of Cooperative Governance; National Treasury & SALGA
    12 May 2015

    Department of Cooperative Governance
    The Department said that the decision to withhold the equitable share funds was a Treasury decision. Its presentation spoke to the engagements with the affected municipalities, general observations from the engagements, future issues of policy that needed discussion, the progress to date of municipal payments to ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Disaster Management Amendment Bill [B10-2015]: public hearings Day 2
    22 Apr 2015

    The Committee heard submissions from various stakeholders on the Disaster Management Amendment Bill.

    The Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) raised key issues such as the fact that fifty percent of disaster losses are not recorded, the importance of devolution and placement of the function at ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Disaster Management Amendment Bill: briefing by stakeholders
    21 Apr 2015

    Various Stakeholders presented their ideas and comments on the Disaster Amendment Bill [B10-2015]

    There were several issues raised in these presentations that were recurrent in many presentations and almost the whole Committee and the stakeholders agreed with the move from the phrase ‘disaster management’ to ‘disaster risk reduction and the ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs CRL Rights Commission on its Annual Performance Plan 2015/16
    17 Mar 2015

    The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan. The Commission was dealing with issues of diminished heritage. The Commission had tackled the issue of initiation schools and the nation had taken ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs South African Local Government Association (SALGA) on its Annual Performance Plan
    10 Mar 2015

    The Committee convened to hear a presentation from the South Africa Local Government Association (SALGA) on its annual performance plan, and was told that the Association was starting to engage with people in terms of accomplishing their set goals and objectives. There had been a holistic appraisal of the efforts ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on their Budgets & Annual Performance Plans, with Minister
    3 Mar 2015

    The Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) presented their Strategic Plans 2015-2019 and2015/16 Annual Performance Plans t the Portfolio Committee, with the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Mr Pravin Gordhan, in attendance.

    The Minister said local government was an important sphere of government and everyone, regardless ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Disaster Management Amendment Bill: briefing by Department of Cooperative Governance
    24 Feb 2015

    Officials from the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs’ Disaster Management sector briefed the Committee on the proposed amendments in the Disaster Management Amendment Bill. Disaster management was a functional area listed in Schedule 4A of the Constitution. The Disaster Management Act of 2002 was intentionally reputed for its ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF): COGTA briefing with Minister
    18 Nov 2014

    The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) briefed the Committee on the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF). In response to the National Development Plan (NDP), and to the UN Habitat recommendation for countries to develop national urban policies, COGTA started developing the IUDF in November 2012. The IUDF ...

  • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency on operations and implementation of programmes
    11 Nov 2014

    The Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) presented its report and stated that it was created to support and build technical capacity in local government for the improvement of municipal infrastructure provisioning, refurbishment and maintenance in accordance with section 7 (5) of the Public Service Act. Its mandate is to render ...