South Africa: Ncop Goes to Gauteng

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From the beginning 15 years ago, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has taken very seriously its constitutional mandate of ensuring that provincial interests are taken care of at national level. For this reason, it has never waited for the provinces to travel to Cape Town to check if service delivery is taking place in the provinces. So said the NCOP's House Chairperson of Intergovernmental Relations and Cooperative Governance, Ms Nosilivere Magadla, in the City of Tshwane Metro Municipality's Mabopane township yesterday.

"Since 2002, the NCOP has reached all nine provinces through the Taking Parliament to the People programme, a programme that creates an opportunity for ordinary people in the villages, farms and townships to interact with their representatives at Parliament, provincial legislatures, municipal councils and in all the spheres of government," Ms Magadla said. She reiterated that the NCOP was the only House of Parliament that could draw all spheres of government, local, provincial and national, together under one roof.

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