a) Government invested in capacity building programs to enhance the skills and capabilities of local government officials and Councillors. This includes training programs, workshops, and knowledge-sharing platforms to improve governance practices, financial management, service delivery, and community engagement. Municipal Public Accounts Committees were trained to exercise oversight over the executive functionaries of council and ensure good governance in municipalities.
b) Through the MIG, municipalities ...
1. No. Preparedness measures are funded by organs of state from their own resources. The NDMC provide support and guidance to organs of state on preparedness measures. (a) Not applicable. (b) Not applicable
2. The actual work that has been done or being done in 2023 to ensure that municipalities are able to handle natural disasters include amongst others the following:
Yes, the department has measures in place to assess disaster management plans in their entirety, and this process include the assessment of preparedness measures of municipalities to handle natural disasters.
a) The assessment measures (tools) include the guideline on the “Development and structure of a disaster management plan” that the NDMC developed and published in 2017 (Annexure A). Within this ...
The information requested by honourable member is monitored in the national monitoring system as well as the national information system provided for by the National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) and the Water Services Act, 1997 (Act No. 108 of 1997) respectively. DWS is responsible for these national systems as mandated by both pieces of legislation highlighted in the background above. ...
According to the records of the department: Myself, the Deputy Ministers and any employee of the department did not attend Rugby World Cup in France in 2023, in official capacity.
Nothing prohibited officials to attend Rugby World final in France as it would have been done in their own expenses.
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Yes, the Department has taken steps to make way for the reconstitution of traditional councils which have recognised traditional leaders.
a) In February 2022, the COGTA Ministry published the formula for determining the number of members of Traditional Councils (TCs) as required by the Act. However, in January 2023, traditional leaders requested that the published formula be reviewed which led to provinces not being ...
The Department, through the State of Local Government Report, identified the following key contributors to instability and lack of service delivery in local government:
No. The incident was not brought to the attention of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs – NDMC. Furthermore, no funding request was submitted by the Rustenburg Local Municipality (the municipality) through the Provincial Disaster Management Centre in North West province (PDMC). According to the information provided by the PDMC, the bridge that was damaged by the floods was constructed by the ...
The Department of Co-operative Governance (DCOG) will not instruct municipalities to undertake a full technical audit as DCOG has no authority to do so. DCOG however provides support, together with all the Provincial Governments and the rest of National Government, to municipalities in accordance with the District Development Model (DDM) to perform their functions in terms of section 154 of the Constitution.
DCOG provides ...
Eskom and Water boards Debts, arrangements and monitoring of payments are managed and overseen by the National Treasury. It is recommended that the question be redirected to the Ministry of Finance for the National Treasury to provide response accordingly.
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