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The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial House of Traditional Leaders through its Chairperson Inkosi PhathisizweChiliza, is calling upon all men in the province to be protectors of women and children amidst the rise of Gender Based Violence (GBV) throughout the country. The call by Inkosi Chiliza comes after several incidents of gender based violence have left the country reelingand shocked. A number of women and children have in […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has condemned the brutal murder of a sitting councillor in the eThekwini metro which took place last night in uMlazi. Reports received by the department indicate that Cllr Bheki Phungula, who is eThekwini Ward 84 councillor, was brutally killed in his home in uMlazi […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has urged the province’s 54 municipalities during the department’s virtual Munimec meeting to plan for a post-lockdown recovery in their respective jurisdictions to ensure that the lives of residents and business return to normalcy as soon as possible once the current restrictions have been […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka today officially launched a R10-million project that will seek to revitalise the Shayamoya Township in the Greater Kokstad local municipality. Under this project 70 young people have been hired through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) to rebuild access roads across the township which […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has sent condolences to two families in Nquthu where a 3-year-old and a 44-year-old died this morning of smoke inhalation following the prolonged inhalation of smoke from a traditional heater (imbawula) fuelled by charcoal. As a result of these incidents, which took place in […]
KZN MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Sipho Hlomuka has called for calm following the reports of positive Covid-19 cases at the Mthonjaneni local municipality offices in Melmoth, Northern KZN. Hlomuka has assured residents that this incident will have minimal impact on service delivery within the municipality as staff are continuing to work […]
This year our country marks 44 years since the Soweto uprisings – a turning point in the fight against apartheid. The scenes of students being shot at drew attention across the world to the reality of the life Africans were subjected to under the apartheid government. The photo taken by the late Sam Nzima of […]
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Sipho Hlomuka this morning visited schools in the deeply rural municipality of uMzimkhulu under the Harry Gwala District where he assessed the rollout of water and Covid-19 compliance following the opening of schools that took place yesterday. Last month the department of Cogta deployed 22 additional water tankers to […]
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What is the Purpose? The purpose of the Provincial Spatial Development Framework will be to: provide a spatial representation of the land development policies, strategies and objectives of the province, which must include the province’s growth and development strategy; indicate the desired and intended pattern of land use development in the province, including the delineation […]