# summary - Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/councillors-coc2022/summary/ - Published: 2022-10-13T16:29:03+02:00 - Author: dearSA [ View the campaign](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/councillors-coc2022/) Participation report coming soon Public comments as delivered ⌊Loader⌉ Loading... ⌊EAD Logo⌉ Taking too long? ⌊Reload⌉ Reload document | [ ⌊Open⌉ Open in new tab ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/31130738/childrens2022-1.pdf) [Download [251.26 KB] ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/31130738/childrens2022-1.pdf) Draft Code of Conduct – English ⌊Loader⌉ Loading... ⌊EAD Logo⌉ Taking too long? ⌊Reload⌉ Reload document | [ ⌊Open⌉ Open in new tab ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13161245/221004codeofconductcouncillorsreg.pdf) [Download [111.39 KB] ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13161245/221004codeofconductcouncillorsreg.pdf) Gedragskode vir Raadslede – Afrikaans ⌊Loader⌉ Loading... ⌊EAD Logo⌉ Taking too long? ⌊Reload⌉ Reload document | [ ⌊Open⌉ Open in new tab ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13161508/Afrikaans-221004codeofconductcouncillorsreg.pdf) [Download [97.66 KB] ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13161508/Afrikaans-221004codeofconductcouncillorsreg.pdf) ### Articles of interest Promote participation – distribute or place this poster/flyer at the office ⌊Loader⌉ Loading... ⌊EAD Logo⌉ Taking too long? ⌊Reload⌉ Reload document | [ ⌊Open⌉ Open in new tab ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13162646/Code-of-conduct-Bill-QR-poster.pdf) [Download [175.84 KB] ](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13162646/Code-of-conduct-Bill-QR-poster.pdf) * Councillors are elected to represent local communities on municipal councils, to ensure that municipalities have structured mechanisms of accountability to local communities, and to meet the priority needs of communities by providing services equitably, effectively and sustainably within the means of the municipality. * In fulfilling this role, councillors **must be accountable to local communities** and report back at least quarterly to constituencies on council matters, including the performance of the municipality in terms of established indicators. * In order to ensure that councillors fulfil their obligations to their communities, and support the achievement by a municipality of its objectives, the draft Code of Conduct is established. ### STATEMENTS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS Click on a logo to view. Want to display your organisation’s statement? [Click here. ](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/councillors-coc2022/summary/ ccoc@dearsouthafrica.co.za?subject=org info for Councillors COC info page) Close ### Cape Independence Advocacy Group ### Dear Speaker, I am writing to you on behalf of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (CIAG) and the seventy thousand South Africans who actively follow our work. We wish to comment on the ‘Electoral Commissions Amendment Act, 2021’, which is proposed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) and was published in the Government Gazette on 21 June 2021. Given our mandate, our comments are made in the context of the Western Cape, although we appreciate and respect that the constitutional rights enacted through this bill will rightfully apply to all provinces. This bill is essential to restoring some degree of functional democracy to the voters of the Western Cape and we therefore unreservedly and wholeheartedly endorse it. Through their voting behaviour, Western Cape voters have made it abundantly clear that they do not endorse many of the policy and ideological positions of the South African national government, but are left utterly powerless to resist them because the voters in other South African provinces, who greatly outnumber them, hold starkly different ideological and political opinions. In terms of seeing their democratic will enacted, for the majority of Western Cape voters, the democratic era has not offered much of an improvement over the apartheid era. It is a statistical fact that, since 1994, the majority of Western Cape voters have never been governed by the political party they voted for, and they have no foreseeable prospect of ever being governed by the party they vote for. As such, they cannot be said to have functional democracy. One of the few glimmers of democratic hope Western Cape voters do have, is the provision of Clause 127(2)(f) of the national constitution, and 37(2)(f) of the Western Cape constitution, which allows them, at the discretion of the premier who they elected, to have their voices heard on matters which are important to them, without being drowned out by a national majority who fundamentally hold different views. To deny Western Cape voters this constitutional right would be a very serious infringement of their political rights and freedoms, and would be a clear indication that parliament and the national government are not interested in the constitutional rights and democratic wishes of Western Cape voters. We therefore call upon parliament to pass this bill at the earliest opportunity, and without objection. Yours Faithfully **Phil Craig (On behalf of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group)