LOGICT TO REPORT TO NEW PROVINCIAL STRUCTURE.

At a “Municipal Information Session on Intergovernmental Relations” chaired by the Minister of Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, Mr. Anton Bredell and addressed by the Western Cape Premier, Ms. Helen Zille held in the Council Chambers at the City of Cape Town on 4 August 2009, proposals for the IGR Framework and Implementation were presented and discussed.

The LOGICT Chairperson, Gavin Greenhalgh, enquired about the future of LOGICT seeing that it was constituted in November 2006 at the request of PAFTECH (Department of Local Government and Housing) which in terms of the IGR Framework and Implementation, was to be discontinued. It is proposed that three Departmental “Engagements” – Provincial Treasury (LGMTEC & IDP one on one’s), Local Government & Housing (PAF, PAFTECH & Municipal Manager’s Forum) and Economic Development & Tourism (LED Road show) – be combined into five PCFs (Premier’s Coordinating Forum) to be held in each of the five District Municipalities during July, September, November, January and March each Provincial financial year. 

"On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah".

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