The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has called for a speedy resolution to end the decade-long water crisis at Makhanda in the Eastern Cape. The call follows reports of fresh protests by the…
A parliamentary committee has called for heads to roll over fruitless and wasteful expenditure amounting to nearly R3bn incurred by the eThekwini municipality. The portfolio committee on co-operative governance and traditional affairs…
Former Eastern Cape social development and Cogta head Stanley Khanyile was shot dead on Saturday. Khanyile was serving as municipal manager of Sedibeng district municipality and was killed in Gauteng. In August, he was arrested by the…
Four years of frustration over the lack of water and electricity for a northern KwaZulu-Natal community reached a climax this week when residents dug up the road in protest. The community of Pomeroy has been submitting memorandums to the…
Co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will follow a “public participation process” should there be a renewed ban on the sale of tobacco products during the lockdown. The Fair-Trade…
Two Eastern Cape municipalities that say they were promised 12,000 litres of hand sanitisers by the provincial government to distribute to destitute families but are still waiting for the delivery are angry that the promise proved to be…
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has strongly condemned utterances made by Eastern MEC for cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta), Xolile Nqatha, at the memorial service of the late Buffalo City Metro Speaker, Alfred Mtsi.…
She raised eyebrows after she said on her official Twitter account that she wanted to talk to the man behind the Zol song‚ but as it turns out‚ co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma…
A stakeholder engagement meeting convened by the Eastern Cape government on the water intervention in Makana Local Municipality has agreed that a consolidated report be produced by Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) and the Gift of…
Protesters, described as land invaders and informal shack dwellers, burned down the KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) office in Durban, early on Thursday morning. Cogta said its Mayville office, which…
COOPERATIVE Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Zweli Mkhize, has outlined his plan to boost infrastructure and economic development while rooting out corruption and maladministration in South Africa’s high-risk municipalities.…
