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GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES COUNCIL: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT AMENDMENT BILL
- 06 March 2026
- Sport, Arts & Culture
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Sport, Arts & Culture has gazetted a notice calling for input by 5 April 2026 on a draft South African Geographical Names Council Amendment Bill.
Informed by extensive consultations in all nine provinces, the proposed new piece of legislation seeks to:
- ‘strengthen governance structures’
- ‘improve administrative processes’, and
- ‘enhance the overall effectiveness of the Council in fulfilling its statutory mandate’.
Against that backdrop, among other things the draft Bill’s long title refers to provisions for:
- ‘mandatory public consultation processes’
- the establishment and maintenance of a computerised database, and
- an appeals tribunal.
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