Manager: Ms Xatyiswa Maswana

Email:xmaswana@ngqushwamun.gov.za

Strategic Objectives:

• To continuously ensure effective, economical and compliant integrated planning by 2025.

The Integrated Development Planning (IDP) Integrated Development planning unit is responsible for development of a coherent, long-term plan for the coordination of all development and delivery in Ngqushwa. Ngqushwa IDP has a lifespan of 5 years (2022/2023 -2026/2027) that is directly linked to the Council’s elected term of office and is reviewed on an annual basis. The reviewal of IDP processes are outlined in the 2024/25 IDP/Budget and PMS process plan adopted by the Council in August 2023. The adopted process plan has the following activities:

• Development of the process plan
• Situational Analysis
• Strategies and objectives
• Adoption of IDP and Budget

Email:lramncwana@ngqushwamun.gov.za

Strategic Objectives:

• To provide value-added and trusted assurance, consulting and advisory services to Council by 2025.
• The internal audit unit has an internal audit charter which is reviewed every year and approved by the audit committee as well as the risk based annual operational internal audit plan which is approved by the audit committee.
• The Manager Internal Audit reports administratively to the Municipal Manager and functionally to the established Audit Committee of the Municipality.
• The Internal Audit department provides a central point for the coordination of and responsibility for activities that promote accountability, integrity and efficiency in the municipality.
• The unit provides an independent, objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the Municipality s operations.
• It assists the Municipality in accomplishing its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, internal control and governance processes.

Email:nnokole@ngqushwamun.gov.za

Strategic Objectives:

• To ensure an effective and efficient risk management processes by 2025 Ngqushwa Municipality’s Council monitors risk through the Audit Committee.
• The Committee plays an oversight role to ensure that there is an effective risk management process and system within the organization.
• This approach provides technical assistance to the Council to exercise its role in ensuring that an adequate and effective risk management system and process is in place.
• The Council is expected to exercise the duty of care, skill, and diligence in identifying, assessing and monitoring risks as presented by Audit Committee.
• The Audit Committee recommends to the Council risk strategies and policies that need to be set, implemented and monitored.

Email: nodumo@ngqushwamun.gov.za

Strategic Objectives:

• To accelerate the municipal response towards issues of vulnerable groups by 2025.
• To mainstream issues of the vulnerable groups into all municipal processes and programmes by 2025.

Email:amabangula@ngqushwamun.gov.za

Strategic Objectives:

• Ensure that legal risks and litigations are eliminated through applicable legislation by 2025.

Role of Legal Services:

• Provides legal guidance, advice and opinions to Council and officials of Ngqushwa Local Municipality.
• Monitor compliance with the applicable regulatory framework within and outside the Municipality.
• Ensures that legal risks are identified and addressed in accordance with applicable legislation so that the Municipality is not exposed to litigation.

Rendering of legal services and support to council, the municipal manager and to all council’s directorates and ensuring that compliance requirements are adhered to by council. The unit has a responsibility to provides legal comments on items to council submitted by directorates as well as liaising with attorneys on matters that require referral for litigations, opinions and reports. Receives, responds and distributes legal documents served to council, consults with departments and prepares litigation documents before referral to panel attorneys. Conducting inspection in conjunction with town-planning as and when required.

Email: ugalada@ngqushwamun.gov.za

Strategic Objectives:

• To promote good governance, transparency, accountability and value for money on the use of municipal resources by 2025.

Municipal Public Accounts Committee The role of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee is to exercise an oversight role and to ensure efficient and effective utilization of municipal resources. One of the mechanisms to achieve this is to involve communities in the oversight of municipal finances through the establishment of well-capacitated audit committees. MPAC prepares the oversight report over the Annual Report and other oversight functions as determined by the Council. MPAC is a section 79 committee, the meetings sit quarterly. Section 129 of the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act No 56 of 2003 No 56 of 2003, provides that members of the public may attend the meetings of the Council preparing the oversight report over the Annual Report and to make inputs on the oversight report. MPAC conducts Annual Roadshows for the tabling of Annual Report to provide members of the public an opportunity to make inputs in preparation of the oversight report in order to have a balanced and well informed oversight report. Dates of meetings of the MPAC Roadshows are publicized to encourage community members to attend the meetings.