LOCAL GOVERNMENT: CHANGES PROPOSED FOR PLANNING, PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: CHANGES PROPOSED FOR PLANNING, PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS

• 11 December 2025
• Local & Provincial Government
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs had called for input by 26 January 2026 on draft amendments to planning and performance management regulations under the 2000 Local Government: Municipal Systems Act. This is noting provisions in the 2022 amendment Act, most of which have been in force since November that year.

Once finalised and in force, the amendments envisaged will materially change regulations in place since August 2001 affecting general key performance indicators by introducing a framework for municipal performance monitoring and measurement that will include:

• key performance areas on:
  • good governance and public participation
  • capable local government institutions
  • financial management
  • infrastructure and service delivery
  • local economic development, and
  • district development model ‘one plan implementation’
• related ministerial obligations, and
• municipal reporting requirements.

This notwithstanding, it is proposed that the Minister should be empowered to delay implementing the reporting requirements:

• ‘for municipalities or municipal entities generally’
• ‘for a particular municipality or municipal entity’, or
• for a category of municipality or municipal entity defined in terms type or budgetary size.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft regulatory amendments
• Act, as amended (SAFLII)

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