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Minister Richard Baloyi of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has today (16 March 2013) started his visits to provinces in the Northern Cape where he convened a cooperative governance forum to reflect on the current state of local government in the province amid national assessments of municipalities by CoGTA. |
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The transformation of local government has been one of the largest undertakings in the entire change process since the advent of democracy. Since the inception of the final phase in December 2000, significant progress has been made, but a lot of work still needs to be done to address the disparate practices and systems that prevail in local government as democracy mature. |
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Friday, 15 February 2013 07:46 |
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The New Age newspaper edition of 14 February 2013 reported that the minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,Richard Baloyi, was expected to address the Sterkspruit community did not arrive.
The Ministry wish to put it on record that the minister was in the area of Sterkspruit for three days and had a meeting with provincial government representatives and councillors. He later had a follow up marathon meetings with the representatives of the Sterkspruit Civic Association that constitutes the leadership of the protesters. |
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Monday, 04 March 2013 10:35 |
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The Ministry for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) is aware of the challenges that are being experienced by local municipalities in spending the Municipal Infrastructure Grant.
The challenges were part of the diagnosis in the Local Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS) as adopted by Cabinet in 2009. The diagnosis eventually became part of the portfolio’s five main priorities identified to give effect to the implementation of LGTAS. Among the problems identified was poor planning related to procurement processes, hence the portfolio prioritises financial management, governance and infrastructure development. In that regard, the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency (MISA) was primarily created to assist municipalities with infrastructure planning- related matters. |
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Thursday, 07 February 2013 15:30 |
The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs is currently drafting a bill which will amend various aspects of legislation that are either in conflict or impede service delivery at the local sphere of government.
The new bill is a result of a diagnostic analysis that emanated from the 2009 Local Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS) which was adopted by the Cabinet. As a way of giving effect to the LGTAS, the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs committed to expedite this process in its 2012 National Council of Provinces’ Budget Vote address.
Various sector departments from other spheres of government are involved in the drafting of the bill as the notion of service delivery embraces all functional apparatus within government.
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