COGTA Portfolio Committee On Track To Present Local Government Municipal Systems Amendment Bill In August

LOLO MAPHOPHE

THE Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) is confident that the Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill will be ready for public participation in November or December as per their project plan presented to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs recently.

This follows the department’s missed submission of the regulatory Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Report on the Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill to the Portfolio Committee.

Subsequently, the department wrote a letter to the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Faith Muthambi.  

However, the committee felt that the letter was “confusing” and ordered the department to revise the letter and present it at a later date.  

In spite of these developments, the department is confident that it is on course for the process to get the bill approved by parliament as outlined in their action plan.