{"id":890,"date":"2026-07-28T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/?page_id=890"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:08:42","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  • Overview<\/h6><\/div><\/li>
  • MEC’s Profile<\/h6><\/div><\/li>
  • HOD’s Profile<\/h6><\/div><\/li>
  • Statutory Bodies<\/h6><\/div><\/li>
  • Delivery Agreement<\/h6><\/div><\/li>
  • Strategic Goals<\/h6><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
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    Our Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    People of the Northern Cape living in integrated sustainable human settlements, with responsive, accountable and highly effective municipalities and traditional councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Our Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Our mission is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • To facilitate, develop and support systems and structures to enhance traditional leadership.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • To ensure the efficient, effective and economic utilization of departmental resources to maximize service delivery<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • To facilitate and manage integrated sustainable human settlements and infrastructure development for effective service delivery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • To facilitate, monitor and support the consolidation and sustainability phases at municipalities for integrated and sustainable service delivery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • To promote and support inter-sphere engagement for integrated planning and co-ordination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      VALUES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      The Department has adopted the following set of values that will inform its conduct and approach to effective service delivery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Equity:<\/em> Non discrimination Affirmative Action Gender Equity Integration of disability issues  <\/td>Team work:<\/em> Co-operation Support Trust<\/td><\/tr>
      Integrity:<\/em> Honesty Disassociating themselves from all forms of corruption and unethical behaviour. Sound business practices  <\/td>Accountability:<\/em> Desire to perform well Accepting accountability for your behaviour Commitment  <\/td><\/tr>
      Development:<\/em> Enablement and empowerment Faith in potential of people Providing opportunities for growth and facilities Fair treatment for all Fairness and equality before the law<\/td>Efficiency:<\/em> Productivity The best work methods Excellent services<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      MEC for COGHSTA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      MEC<\/strong>
      Mr Bentley Vass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      POLITICAL BACKGROUND<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      • 1986 \u2013 UDF (UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 1987 \u2013 1989 (CARNARVON YOUTH FORUM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 1993 \u2013 AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 1995 \u2013 ANC BRANCH MEMBER, CARNARVON<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 1996 \u2013 VOLUNTEER ADVICE OFFICE<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 1998 \u2013 ANCYL REC MEMBER (HANTAM)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 1999 \u2013 ANCYL PEC MEMBER (NORTHERN CAPE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2000 \u2013 2001 ANC REC HANTAM<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2001 \u2013 2017 ANC PEC NAMAKWA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2006 \u2013 2013 REGIONAL SECRETARY<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2013 \u2013 2017 REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2017 – DEPUTY PROVINCIAL CHAIRPERSON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        WORK EXPERIENCE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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        • 1994 \u2013 Independent Forum for Free Elections<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 1995 \u2013 Administrator \u2013 Constituency Office<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2000 \u2013 Development Worker \u2013 Youth Commission<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2006 \u2013 Councilor \u2013 Namakwa District Municipality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2006 \u2013 2013 Speaker \u2013 Namakwa District Municipality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2013 \u2013 2017 Executive Mayor \u2013 Namakwa District Municipality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2017 \u2013 Member of the Provincial Legislature (October 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2017 \u2013 Chair of Chairs (November 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2018 \u2013 Member of the Executive Council (COGHSTA) (February 2018).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          HOD of COGHSTA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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          HOD<\/strong>
          Mr B S Lenkoe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          The following strategic goals\u00a0are\u00a0guided by the four programmes that constitute the Department:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          PROGRAMME 1: ADMINISTRATION\u00a0<\/strong>
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           Strategic Outcome Oriented Goal<\/td>An   efficient,   effective   and   development-oriented department<\/td><\/tr>
           Goal Statement<\/td>A well -run and effectively coordinated department with skilled public servants who are committed to the public good and capable of delivering consistently high quality service.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


          PROGRAMME 2: HUMAN SETTLEMENTS<\/u><\/strong>
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           Strategic Outcome Oriented Goal<\/td>Sustainable Human         Settlements    and Improved Quality of Household Life<\/td><\/tr>
           Goal Statement<\/td>Sustainable Human Settlements with access to basic services, amenities and security of tenure in urban and rural communities by the end of current MTSF.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


          PROGRAMME 3: COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE<\/u><\/strong>
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           Strategic Outcome Oriented Goal<\/td>Building A Responsive, Accountable, Effective and Efficient Developmental Local Government System.  <\/td><\/tr>
           Goal Statement  <\/td>Strengthening capacity of the 31 municipalities of the Province to deliver sustainable infrastructure development and maintenance, and increase access to basic services including job creation, provision of free basic services and local economic development; as well as promoting good governance and deepening participatory democracy at local level by 2019.  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


          PROGRAMME 4: TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS<\/u><\/strong>
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           Strategic Outcome Oriented Goal<\/td>An efficient and effective institution of traditional leadership that enhances sustainable development and service delivery within traditional communities.<\/td><\/tr>
           Goal Statement<\/td>Enhance cooperation between traditional authorities and elected local government councillors as well as private sectors (mines) on developmental issues during the next five years.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-890","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/coghsta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}