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SALGA PRESENTS LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANS TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON CoGTA - 2011-04-21 14:11:00
Annually SALGA, together with the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs are invited to the Portfolio Committee to present its performance plans for the new financial year. The last such engagement, reflective of plans leading up to the 2010/11 financial year, was held on 23 March 2010.
Taking cue from the lessons learnt since the last engagement SALGA went before the Portfolio Committee on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 to reflect on key achievement against the targets s...
ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISING LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS - 2011-04-19 17:14:00
Having long advocated for the professionalization of Human Resource Management in local government in order to improve services and delivery issues, SALGA welcomes the approval by Parliament of the Municipal Systems Bill. This move will ensure that municipalities are adequately capacitated with employees who are qualified and well able to deliver on their mandate.
The bill clearly stipulates that qualified and competent people should be placed and although human capacity is only one of...
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON THE SO CALLED "WATER CRISIS" - 2011-04-19 17:13:00
During the National water week of March 2011, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), The Water Research Commission (WRC) and the Institute of municipal engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA) hosted a debate on the so “called water crisis”.
The debate was enriched by a number of water experts from the academia, bulk water providers (rand water), representatives from the department of water affairs, chamber of mines, South African Institute of Civil Engineers...
SALGA CONVENES FIRST NATIONAL MUNICIPAL MANAGERS MEETING - 2011-04-19 17:10:00
SALGA convened the first National Municipal Managers meeting on 28 February 2011 hosted by the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, in Germiston, Ekurhuleni. This meeting of municipal administrative leadership set to deliberate on issues critical to local government and the changes likely to be brought on by the upcomming local government elections.
The objectives, to note were to: critically assess the relationship between organised local government and municipal administrations...
SALGA AND ITS PARTNERS ANNOUNCE PHASE TWO OF THE MUNICIPAL ICT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT - 2011-04-19 17:04:00
UBUNYE PROJECT
SALGA along with its partners in the Ubunye Project, the Development Fund, LGSETA, South African Post Office and Microsoft SA, have announced the Student to Government Pillar of the project on Tuesday 19 April 2011 at Microsoft SA, in Bryanston. The Ubunye Project has three pillars, namely End User Computer Training, Student to Government [S2G] and the Seminar Series. The targets for end user computer training were originally set as 200 delegates and 5 municipaliti...
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