TAKING LEGISLATURE TO THE PEOPLE PROGRAMME UNDERWAY AT UGU SPORTS AND LEISURE CENTRE IN RAY NKONYENI MUNICIPALITY UNDER UGU DISTRICT

KZN Legislature is holding a two day-sitting from 02 to 03 November at Ugu Sports and Leisure Centre in Ray Nkonyeni Municipality as part of its annual public participation programme of Taking Legislature to the People. The programme which is being attended by Members of the Legislature (MPLs), Members of the Executive Council (MECs), Provincial Government Departments, Councilors, Amakhosi and community members.

The Multiparty Delegation Visits in Ugu District Report was tabled on the first day of the TLTP and members of the public were given an opportunity to engage with MECs on service delivery issues raised in the report and were provided with responses on the departmental plans to address them.

On the second day of the TLTP, the Legislature is holding a sitting to debate the Multiparty report which will be adopted for implementation by the provincial government to accelerate service delivery to communities of Ugu District.

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KZN LEGISLATURE TO HOLD A TWO DAY SITTING IN UGU DISTRICT AS PART OF ITS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME OF TAKING LEGISLATURE TO THE PEOPLE

KwaZulu-Natal Legislature will, on the 2nd and 3rd November 2023, hold a two-day sitting at Ugu Sports and Leisure Centre near Gamalakhe in Ray Nkonyeni Municipality under Ugu District, as part of its annual public participation programme of Taking Legislature to the People.

In the year 2023, Ugu District was identified as the recipient district for the Multiparty Oversight Visits and the Taking Legislature to the People programme. In June, multiparty delegations of Members of the Legislature, held community engagement meetings in all local municipalities under Ugu District Municipality, focusing on the levels and state of service delivery and related issues, and conducted oversight visits to identified projects and fact-finding mission to service delivery institutions that were identified for verifications in all 4 local municipalities.

During the community meetings, community members were provided with an opportunity to raise various issues of service delivery affecting their communities which needed urgent government intervention. The programme aims to resolve issues raised by communities by referring them to the provincial government for immediate response and action. In this respect, a comprehensive report on the Multiparty Oversight Visits in Ugu District has been compiled and will be presented to communities on the first day of the Taking Legislature to the People Programme at Ugu Sports and Leisure Centre on 02 November 2023. The Legislature will debate the report in its sitting on the following day.

The 2023 Multiparty and Taking Legislature to the People (TLTP) in Ugu District, focuses primarily on “tracking the progress on the implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP) and KZN development strategy known as the Provincial Growth and Development Plan (PGDP) in Ugu District.

The programme will also provide the Legislature will an opportunity to give feedback on the state of service delivery projects previously visited in 2019 and issues raised by communities when the Legislature conducted the same programme in the district.

The media is invited to the Taking Legislature to the People in Ugu District.

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KWAZULU-NATAL LEGISLATURE MOURNS THE PASSING OF FORMER MPL MS INA CRONJE

KwaZulu-Natal Legislature has learned with shock and sadness of the passing on of its former Member who was also an MEC for Education and later Finance, Ms Catharina Magdalena “Ina” Cronje.

Paying tribute, Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, Nontembeko Boyce said the Legislature mourns the passing of Cronje and that her untimely passing was a great loss.

“We are saddened by the news of the passing on of Ms Catharina Magdalena “Ina” Cronje. We extend our deepest and heartfelt condolences to her family, friends and political home; the African National Congress. We pray that God gives them strength during this time of grief,” said Boyce.

Cronje, a lawyer by training and former teacher represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Provincial Legislature from 1994 until she retired from politics in 2014.

She was principled, hard-working and always worked to provide solutions to challenges faced by communities throughout the province.

“On behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, we appreciate and are thankful for the life-time of service given by Ms Catharina Magdalena “Ina” Cronje, a dedicated and humble servant of the Province of KwaZulu-Natal” said Boyce

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ISSUED BY KZN LEGISLATURE

The office of the Auditor General has praised the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature for the manner it handles the public purse which has seen the institution accomplishing three consecutive clean audits.

Briefing Members of the legislature on audit outcomes today, the Auditor General (AG) Ms Tsakane Maluleke described the legislature’s three consecutive clean audits as a sterling work and urged the institution to sustain the good work. The AG’s office also presented the legislature with a prestigious trophy to the Speaker Hon Nontembeko Boyce as recognition of excellence.

Commenting on the audit outcomes, Boyce said the clean audit had been achieved because the institution’s officials had heeded the call for the legislature to lead by example. The institution’s Standing Committee on Oversight (Stacov) had also excelled by constantly maintaining oversight of the financial management of the legislature, Boyce added.

As an institution that is responsible for keeping a watchful eye on how government departments handled public finances, it was fundamentally important for the legislature to also  lead by example, she said.

“When we began the sixth administration four years ago, we sat with our management and emphasized that it was fundamentally important for them to exercise vigilance to ensure good governance standards were adhered to. The political leadership did not only make a clarion for management to ensure that it handled the public purse with care and implements legislature programmes effectively, but it also ensured that it worked closely with management to ensure that our vision was implemented to the teeth,” added Boyce.

She thanked the Office of the Auditor General for its continued support and guidance which made it possible for the legislature to achieve its set targets. “The AG has urged us to sustain the legislature’s clean bill of health which encourages us to work even harder. Our target is to achieve the fourth clean audit for the year 2023/24, closing our term on positive upward trajectory.”

ISSUED BY THE KWAZULU-NATAL LEGISLATURE

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KZN LEGISLATURE TAKES ITS CIVIC VOTER EDUCATION CAMPAIGN TO UGU DISTRICT

Today, 18 October 2023, Members of the KZN Legislature have embarked on a voter education drive in Ugu District to encourage the public to register for upcoming elections and to create awareness around the importance of the 2024 National General Elections.

The Legislature is holding the voter education campaign in Umdoni and Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipalities both under Ugu District Municipality. Each of the two local municipalities that are being visited have dedicated delegations of Members coming from all political parties represented in the Legislature.

They are being accompanied by Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Department of Home Affairs, who are doing voter education, voter registration and allowing the public to check and update their details on the Voters’ Roll, while Home Affairs focuses mainly on first time ID applicants and renewals of damaged or lost IDs.

The public has shown a huge enthusiasm in the campaign as they have come out in numbers to join the Legislature in its drive to enhance democracy in South Africa.   

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