Parliament, Thursday, 26 March 2026 – The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) will tomorrow receive oral submissions on the Intergovernmental Monitoring, Support and Interventions (IMSI) Bill.
Introduced in Parliament in April 2025, this Bill aims to tighten laws on national and provincial government support and interventions in municipalities. The Bill also seeks to remedy the challenges often experienced during interventions. The Constitution already allows national and provincial governments to intervene when a province or municipality fails to deliver municipal services such as water and electricity. However, procedures for doing this have often been unclear, leading to disagreements about when, how and why interventions should occur.
The Bill provides clear rules for monitoring performance, defines what “executive obligations” are, and sets out the support or corrective steps that must occur before and during an intervention. It also introduces systems to identify early signs of trouble so that problems can be addressed before they become crises.
Tomorrow, the committee will hear from the South African Human Rights Commission, the Western Cape Department of Local Government, the Youth Policy Lab, the Uprising Foundation, the Eastern Cape Department of COGTA and City of Cape Town.
DETAILS OF THE MEETING:
Date: 27 March 2026
Time: 09:00–14:00
Venue: Virtual meeting platform
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For media inquiries or interviews with the Chairperson, please contact the Media Officer:
Name: Alicestine October
Cell: 083 665 4345
E-mail: aoctober@parliament.gov.za
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