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Department: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Table 1: Summary of departmental

To be appropriated by Vote in 2023/24 R1 050 901 000
Responsible Executive Authority MEC of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Administrating Department Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional
Affairs
Accounting Officer Head of Department

1. 1. Overview

1.1. Vision
Development-oriented municipalities and institutions of traditional leadership that deliver sustainable
quality services to communities in an integrated, responsive and accountable manner.

1.2. Mission
To co-ordinate support through government spheres and partnerships to municipalities and institutions of
traditional leadership to fulfil their developmental mandates, for a better quality of life for all communities.

1.3. Core functions and responsibilities
x Facilitate the transformation of developmental local government in line with all relevant

developmental legislation;
x Facilitate transformation in the institutions of traditional leadership and democratic structures of

governance;
x Provide extensive measurable support to municipalities to improve their administrative, governance
and financial capabilities in order to realise their constitutional mandate;

x Improve the provision of support (technical and administrative) to municipalities in order to fast
track the delivery of basic services and access improvement thereof;

x Strengthen interventions that are supportive of the human settlement outcomes;
x Promote and support the implementation of Public Employment Programmes (CWP and EPWP);
x Promote the deepening of democracy through the implementation of the Ward Committee Model

and Ward Base Planning at municipal level through Community Development Work (CDW)
programme;

x Integrate municipal interventions support through a single window of coordination that enables
communities to experience cohesion, predictability, excellence in service delivery and control over
the environment they find themselves in;

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