Gallery Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube, Art, Culture, Sport and Recreation MEC Bongi Sithole-Moloi and Member of Parliament Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu joined thousands of community members including Amakhosi, Mayors and business people to witness the Provincial Festival of Beads which took place at the Unit 1 Sports Grounds in the Msunduzi Local Municipality on 15.10.16. In this event rural women who do bead work and traditional dance groups show cased their skills for a total prize of R375 000. KZN Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has taken the drastic step of using its constitutional prerogative to dissolve the Nquthu municipal council elected during last year’s local government elections because of its protracted failure to elect office bearers, including a mayor and a speaker, due to political infighting. Cogta MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube made the announcement to members of the media in the press briefing at Mayville in Durban on 12.02.17 Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube officially opened the R7 Million Community Service Centre which has brought government services closer to the rural community of Mombeni in the Mlalazi District on 09.02.17 The embattled eMadlangeni municipality in Utrecht, Northen KwaZulu-Natal, which was placed under provincial administration in terms of section 139(1)(b) of the Constitution, following the collapse of governance and service delivery, was paid a visit today by the KZN Cogta MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube where she addressed over 3000 community members who had gathered at the White City Sports Grounds at ward 2 on 31.01.17.