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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DATE: 01 NOVEMBER 2023

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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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

Enquiries: Ms Nomusa Phungula

KZN Legislature successfully held it annual senior citizen Parliament on the 29th of September 2023 at Mtubatuba, Mkhanyakude District.

Wherein elderly people from all corners of our province gather to discuss issues affecting them and how best those issues can be resolve through government interventions. This also creates a platform for the cabinet to come and account on their commitment to making lives better for senior citizens of this province and their departmental initiatives aiming at assisting elderly people with access to basic needs, proper health care and ensuring that they live a healthy lifestyle through various sport codes.

ATTENTION: HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE KWAZULU-NATAL LEGISLATURE

Dear Honourable Members
SUBJECT: PASSING AWAY OF MR IMPORTANT MKHIZE WHO SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE BETWEEN 2014 AND 2019

It is with greatest sorrow that the Office of the Speaker hereby advises the KwaZuluNatal legislature community of the passing away of Mr Important S Mkhize who served as a Member of the legislature during the Fifth Term.

Mr Mkhize served in various legislature committees, and he was the Chairperson of the Human Settlements Portfolio Committee. He will be remembered profoundly as one of the stalwarts that played a key role in the attainment of freedoms that we enjoy in South Africa today.

Our heartfelt condolences go to the Mkhize family, friends and his political organisation, the African National Congress at this sad time. May we remember them in our thoughts and prayers. Honourable Members will be informed of any further update in this regard as and when they become available.

Yours Faithfully
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HON. N.N. BOYCE
SPEAKER: KWAZULU-NATAL LEGISLATURE

The KwaZulu-Natal Legislature hosts the 2023 Civic Voter Education Campaign on 30 August 2023 at Dr JL Dube Stadium in Inanda and Bridge City Taxi Rank in KwaMashu.

The focus of the programme is to address the reported lower voter turnout over the past elections as well as to encourage voter registration and to create awareness around the 2024 National General Elections and to encourage and facilitate the applications for new Identity documents and collection of the still uncollected IDs.

The programme is being delivered in partnership with strategic partners i.e. the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Department of Home Affairs (DHA).

(i)   The IEC will support both teams and will be focusing mainly on voter education, voter registration and checking as well as updating of details on the voter’s roll

(ii)  The Department of Home Affairs whose main role is the identity document drive (application for new IDs and issuing of uncollected IDs to applicants) will have 3 mobile units per venue each to process the ID applications for new applicants and those that have had their IDs damaged.

(iii) There will also be SAPS to ensure that those that need to do affidavits are supported at each site.

10 August 2023

Media Advisory

KwaZulu-Natal Legislature’s Public Works Portfolio Committee will be conducting Public Hearings at Sibusisiwe Hall in Mandeni tomorrow, 11th August 2023. Public Hearings will commence at 10am and end at 13:00pm

The purpose of the Expropriation Bill [B23B-2020] is to clearly outline how expropriation can be done and on what basis.

The Presidential Advisory Panel Report determined that the 1975 Expropriation Act was inconsistent with the Constitution, and that it “undermines the constitutionally enshrined principles of lawful, procedurally fair and reasonable administrative justice”.

The Bill was rejected in 2021 and reprised in 2022, starting with Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure. That committee’s task was to consider all public inputs on the amendments of the Act for the National Assembly to pass the Bill.

The National Assembly passed the bill in September 2022. From there, the bill was passed on to the National Council of Provinces, which has reopened the proposed laws for public comment.

It is this process which is taking place in KwaZulu-Natal and will end this coming Saturday on the 12th of August.

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For more information please contact Wonder Hlongwa at 0829083532

Tuesday, 8 August 2023

KwaMashu Sports Centre

eThekwini Municipality

Theme: “Accelerating Socio-Economic Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment”
 
Programme Director:

Hon. P Mbatha-Cele MPL;

Chairperson: Standing Committee on Quality of Life

09h55 – 10h00

Announcement of the official start of the program and calling people into order before singing of the National Anthem
 
Hon. P Mbatha-Cele

12h10 – 13h00

Question and Answer Session

All
 
Women Parliament Dialogue

13h00 – 14h30

Women Dialogue

ACDP : 3mins

ATM : 3mins

MF : 3mins

NFP : 3 mins

EFF : 9 mins

DAWN : 12 mins

IFPWB : 15 mins

ANCWL : 42 mins

14h30 – 14h40

Presentation of 2023 Women Parliament Resolutions

14h40 – 14h50

Vote of Thanks

Hon. H Mavimbela

Chairperson of Chairpersons of Committees

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KZN Legislature commemorates Mandela Day by handing over a house, furniture and grocery to Gogo Ngcobo in Ward 10 in Umthonjaneni Municipality under King Cetshwayo District as part of the 67 Days to commemorate the call our former President and the struggle icon made to all South Africans to remember his role he played in the liberation struggle.

The KZN Legislature, led by the Chief Whip, Hon. James Nxumalo and Members from all Parties in the Legislature spent the day to hand over the house and goodies to the Ngcobo family with the support of the traditional leadership, ward councilor and locals.

This is part of the Legislature’s role to assist our needy communities to realise a better life.