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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 […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka will, in an effort to capacitate disaster management response in the uThukela district, be handing over a state-of-the-art disaster response vehicle when he visits the district on Tuesday, 13 April, as part of his Integrated Service Delivery programme. The district has recently experienced a […]
The risk of lightning strikes damaging critical infrastructure at the Emmaus Hospital in Bergville is now a thing of the past. This follows the intervention by the KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka who has just facilitated the installation of seven lightning conductors at the hospital. On Friday, 9 April, […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka and KZN MEC for Social Development Nonhlanhla Khoza, who is also the political champion of the Ugu District under Operation Sukuma Sakhe, this morning jointly inspected the water tankers utilised by the district as part of its water delivery fleet. The inspection comes following several […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has noted the 2019 Non-Financial Census of Municipalities report released by StatsSA last week. The report details significant improvements in the provision of services to residents in the province for the said period. According to the report, which measures service delivery, including water, electricity […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has welcomed the Auditor-General’s findings which indicate that the department has received an unqualified audit with no findings or a ‘clean audit’ for the 2019/2020 financial year. This Audit outcome, according to Hlomuka, is a big boost for the department as it promotes good […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka today led a delegation consisting of municipal and provincial government officials to address Ugu residents on the steps that are being taken to resolve service delivery challenges within the district. Ugu communities had protested over inadequate access to basic services which culminated in the […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka saddened by the fatal incident that took place last night in Weenen under the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality, where one person, a 40-year-old female, drowned with three people missing after the taxi they were travelling in got swept away while crossing a low-lying bridge […]