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Department: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

of EC legislation, reconstitution of TCs, transfer of recognition of Traditional Leadership functions to Office

of the Premier (OTP) and the support to the TL institutions supported through partnerships which requires
resources to achieve.

Openly stated, resources are required to intervene and to implement the priorities assigned to the
Department, so as to maximise target setting to ensure transformation.

1.6. The Acts, rules and regulations
The department derives its mandate amongst others, from the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,
1996. In carrying out its core functions and responsibilities, the department is governed by various Acts,

rules and regulations; Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996); and these include Land Survey
Act (1997); Municipal Structures Act (1998); Municipal Systems Act (2000, as amended); Fire Brigade

Services Amendment Act (2000); Disaster Management Act (2002); Municipal Property Rates Act (2004);
Inter-Governmental Relations Framework Act (2005); Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act
(2013); EC Traditional Leadership Governance Act (2017); Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act

(2019); National LED Framework; Municipal Infrastructure Grant Policy Framework; and the Indigent
Policy Framework.

1.7. Budget decisions
The department takes cognisance of the national electoral cycle and thus the need to enhance its footprint

in the local government space towards intensifying the support to deliver the much-needed services to the
people of the Eastern Cape Province. This coupled with the need to ensure that the supporting role is

played to the province’s Traditional Leadership Institutions remain high up in the priority list of the
department.

However, the constrained economic growth forecast coupled with shrinking allocations which resulted to

the recent 2021 MTEF budget cuts enforces the department to continually looking for trade-offs and re-
prioritization within programmes and sub-programmes to counter the effect of the budget cuts overtime
remains so as to ensure service delivery is not negatively impacted. This remains critical in ensuring that

the department contributes to the provincial fiscal consolidation efforts.

For the 2023 MTEF period (2023/24 in particular), funds have been reprioritised across all economic
classifications to ensure that the department remains in a path of achieving its mandate. In its efforts for
proper delivery of services, the department is prioritising critical positions to be filled through the Annual

Recruitment Plan (ARP) and Human Resource Planning. Some funds have been reprioritised to enhance
the assistance to municipalities in ensuring that households gain access to sustainable and reliable basic

services, municipalities demonstrate good financial governance and support to Traditional Leadership.
The additional allocations received from 2023/24 budget will also go a long way in assisting the department
to realizing these objectives.

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