Cabinet approved the intervention in terms of Section 139(7) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996, read together with Section 150 of the Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (Act 56 of 2003), in the Mangaung Metropolitan and Enoch Mgijima Local municipalities. Both municipalities have been experiencing significant financial and service delivery […]

Cabinet decided to end the National State of Disaster with effect from midnight on Monday, with the exception of a few transitional regulations remaining in place. “Since the requirements for a National State of Disaster to be declared in terms of the Disaster Management Act are no longer met, Cabinet has decided to terminate the […]

The Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG), acting as the implementing agent of the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF), has embarked on the review of the existing Small Town Regeneration Programme (STR). Since the commission of the STR in 2013/2014 and the adoption of the IUDF in 2016, there have been varying degrees of success and […]

Total Number of Municipalities Currently Under Intervention as of February* 2022 Name of Province Number of Municipalities Eastern Cape 3 Free State 1 KwaZulu Natal 8 Gauteng 2 Limpopo 1 Mpumalanga 5 Northern Cape 2 North West 8 Western Cape 1 Total Number of Municipalities 31   Total number of municipalities categorised per province Total […]

The District Development Model was initiated by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his Budget Speech in 2019. Subsequently, the District Development Model was discussed and adopted by Cabinet, the 2019 Presidential Coordinating Council (PCC), the March 2020 extended PCC and various MINMECs. The President in the 2019 Presidency Budget Speech (2019) identified the “pattern of operating […]