<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="FeedCreator 1.7.3" -->
<?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/style.css" type="text/css"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">
    <channel>
        <title>Polity.org.za | The Presidency (National Planning and Performance)</title>
        <description><![CDATA[The Department of Planning & Performance Monitoring aims to mobilise stakeholders and harness resources towards the implementation of the National Development Plan as a guide for the country's developmental trajectory.]]></description>
        <link>https://www.polity.org.za/page/the-presidency-including-national-planning-and-performance-monitoring</link>
        <lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:35:29 +0200</lastBuildDate>
        <generator>FeedCreator 1.7.3</generator>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (B 4-2001)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-b-42001-2001-05-25</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To amend item 24 of Schedule 6 to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act No. 108 of 1996), so as to remove the right of a member of a non-statutory force to conclude an agreement of appointment with the National Defence Force.
]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2001 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>109819</a_id>
        <updated>1489496934</updated>
        <published>990785340</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05223_constitutionofrsaab4.pdf</url><size>52186</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05223_constitutionofrsaab4.pdf" fileSize="52186" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Bill (B 84-1998)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-amendment-bill-b-841998-1998-07-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to extend the term of Municipal Councils; to provide for the designation of alternates in respect of certain members of the Judicial Service Commission; to amend the name of the Human Rights Commission; to adjust the powers of the Public Service Commission; and to extend and modify the application of transitional arrangements in respect of local government; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>113046</a_id>
        <updated>1489494366</updated>
        <published>900917100</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05942_const.of.rsa_ab84.pdf</url><size>59244</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05942_const.of.rsa_ab84.pdf" fileSize="59244" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Bill (B 84A-1998)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-amendment-bill-b-84a1998-1998-07-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On page 2, from line 9, to omit subsection (2) and to substitute: (2) If a Municipal Council is dissolved in terms of national legislation, or when its term expires, an election must be held within 90 days of the date that Council was dissolved or its term expired. (3) A Municipal Council, other than a Council that has been dissolved following an intervention in terms of section 139, remains
competent to function from the time it is dissolved or its term expires, until the newly elected Council has been declared elected.]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>113056</a_id>
        <updated>1489494378</updated>
        <published>900917100</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05947_const.of.rsa_ab84a.pdf</url><size>52126</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05947_const.of.rsa_ab84a.pdf" fileSize="52126" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Amendment Bill (B 84B-1998)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-amendment-bill-b-84b1998-1998-07-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to extend the term of Municipal Councils; to provide for the designation of alternates in respect of certain members of the Judicial Service Commission; to amend the name of the Human Rights Commission; to adjust the powers of the Public Service Commission; and to extend and modify the application of transitional arrangements in respect of local government; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>113057</a_id>
        <updated>1489494389</updated>
        <published>900917100</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05948_const.of.rsa_ab84b.pdf</url><size>61069</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05948_const.of.rsa_ab84b.pdf" fileSize="61069" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Second Amendment Bill (B 78-2001)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-second-amendment-bill-b-782001-2001-05-10</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as—
— to provide for the introduction, only by the Cabinet member responsible for national financial matters, of certain financial legislation in the National Assembly;
— to extend the definition of a money Bill;
— to provide for national supervision of local administration if a municipality fails to comply with an obligation in terms of legislation or the Constitution;
— to further regulate national supervision of provincial administration;
— to extend the principle that provinces’ equitable share of revenue raised nationally are direct charges against the National Revenue Fund, to local  government’s equitable share;
— to further regulate the withholding of funds by the national treasury if organs of state commit a serious and material breach of legislation prescribing treasury norms and standards;
— to provide that the enactment of national framework legislation governing the policies of organs of state on preferential procurement should be obligatory;
— to provide for the enactment of national framework legislation in connection with the withdrawal of money as direct charges against a Provincial Revenue Fund and certain payments from a Provincial Revenue Fund to municipalities;
— to reduce the number of members of the Financial and Fiscal Commission and to change the appointment procedure;
— to make further provision for the regulation of municipal and provincial borrowing powers; and
— to provide for matters connected therewith.
]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2001 12:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>108671</a_id>
        <updated>1489493279</updated>
        <published>989492340</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/04860_constrepsasecambill78.pdf</url><size>87132</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/04860_constrepsasecambill78.pdf" fileSize="87132" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Second Amendment Bill (B 85-1998)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-second-amendment-bill-b-851998-1998-07-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to amend the manner of determining the different types of municipality to be established in a province; and to provide that, where a municipal boundary is determined across a provincial boundary, national legislation must make provision for establishing a municipality of a type agreed to by the provincial governments concerned and for the exercising of executive authority over that municipality; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>113058</a_id>
        <updated>1489494329</updated>
        <published>900917580</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05949_const.of.rsa.2nd_ab85.pdf</url><size>54425</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05949_const.of.rsa.2nd_ab85.pdf" fileSize="54425" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Second Amendment Bill (B 85A-1998)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-second-amendment-bill-b-85a1998-1998-07-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[That the following be a new Clause 1: Amendment of section 155 of Act 108 of 1996 1. Section 155 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (6) of the following subsection: ‘‘(6A) If the criteria envisaged in subsection (3)(b) cannot be fulfilled without a municipal boundary extending across a provincial boundary— (a) that municipal boundary may be determined across the provincial boundary, but only— (i) with the concurrence of the provinces concerned; and (ii) after the respective provincial executives have been authorised by national legislation to establish a municipality within that municipal area; and (b) national legislation may— (i) subject to subsection (5), provide for the establishment in that municipal area of a municipality of a type agreed to between the provinces concerned; (ii) provide a framework for the exercise of provincial executive authority in that municipal area and with regard to that municipality; and (iii) provide for the re-determination of municipal boundaries where one of the provinces concerned withdraws its support of a municipal boundary determined in terms of paragraph (a).’’.]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>113059</a_id>
        <updated>1489494341</updated>
        <published>900917400</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05950_const.of.rsa.2nd_ab85a.pdf</url><size>51258</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05950_const.of.rsa.2nd_ab85a.pdf" fileSize="51258" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Second Amendment Bill (B 85B-1998)</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-second-amendment-bill-b-85b1998-1998-07-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to provide that, where a municipal boundary is determined across a provincial boundary, national legislation must make provision for establishing a municipality of a type agreed to by the provincial governments concerned and for the exercising of executive authority over that municipality; and to provide for matters connected therewith.]]></description>
            <author>User not found.</author>
            <category>The Presidency (including National Planning and Performance Monitoring)</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
        <a_id>113062</a_id>
        <updated>1489494353</updated>
        <published>900917280</published>
        <expires>99999999999</expires>
        <editor>Creamer Media Reporter  </editor>
        <has_video>0</has_video>
        <has_audio>0</has_audio>
        <attachments><attachment><url>https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05951_const.of.rsa.2nd_ab85b.pdf</url><size>56629</size><title></title></attachment></attachments>
        <media:group><media:content url="https://cisp.cachefly.net/assets/articles/attachments/05951_const.of.rsa.2nd_ab85b.pdf" fileSize="56629" type="video" medium="video" expression="full"><media:description type="plain"></media:description></media:content></media:group>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>
