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KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), under the leadership of MEC Sipho Hlomuka, has proudly created 46 316 job opportunities in the 2020/2021 financial year. This was revealed by MEC Hlomuka last Friday when he delivered his department’s Budget Policy Speech in the Provincial Legislature. According to MEC Hlomuka, these job opportunities provide […]
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), under the leadership of MEC Sipho Hlomuka, has recently rehabilitated 11 Traditional Administration Centres in Umnini Trust, Isimahle, Khabazela, Ximba, Maphumulo, Manyavu, Cele P, Chwezi, Amangwane, Thoyana, and Khumalo (Ilembe). The department has also positively contributed to improved functionality of numerous Traditional Councils across the province. […]
As the province marks two decades of democratic local government since its formation in 2000 and as it emerges from the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, KZN Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) is tabling its annual 2021/2022 budget which is geared both towards post-Covid-19 municipal recovery and a local government that works […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka this morning paid a visit to the Msunduzi Police Station in Cato Ridge where he assessed its functionality. Hlomuka also received a briefing from senior police officers on the matter of the killings of izinduna that have taken place in areas under […]
The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Sipho Hlomuka has learned with shock and sadness of the untimely passing of Inkosi Philangezwi Vumani Gwala of the Macala Gwala Traditional Council in the Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Local Municipality, within the Harry Gwala District. Inkosi Gwala’s passed away on Sunday, 16 May following a short illness. MEC […]
The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC, Sipho Hlomuka has welcomed the judgement that was handed down on Monday, 17 May by the Pietermaritzburg High Court where it declared invalid the appointment by the Nquthu Municipality of an Acting Municipal Manager, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Acting Director of Planning, Housing and Land Administration. […]
The provision of water-born sewerage is now a reality for thousands of residents of Osizweni township in Newcastle. This follows the investment by the department of Cogta of R20 million which was used by the Newcastle Local Municipality to build 260 ablution facilities that use water-borne sewerage. This morning the Cooperative Governance and Traditional […]
The Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC Sipho Hlomuka has placed disaster management teams on alert following the weather warning that was issued by the South African Weather Service. The warning received by the department indicates that widespread showers and thundershowers are expected over most parts of KZN tomorrow but scattered over the extreme […]
MEDIA STATEMENT: KZN COGTA MEC HLOMUKA CALLS FOR SAFE RETURN OF IBAMBABUKHOSI NGCOBO OF UGU DISTRICT KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has called for the release of Ibambabukhosi Makhosandile Ngcobo, 60, who was kidnapped from his home in eZingolweni, last night at gunpoint by unknown men. Ibambabukhosi Ngcobo […]
The capacity of the uThukela district to respond to disaster incidents has just received a welcome boost when KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka handed over to the municipality a state-of-the-art disaster response vehicle. The handover, which took place at the district offices in Ladysmith today, marked an important turning […]