Questions and Replies

The right of Members to put questions to Ministers is an important part of ensuring the executive authority’s accountability to the Provincial Parliament. Questions may be put to Ministers related to their spheres of responsibility. Replies to questions are either given orally in the House or in writing. The replies to oral questions are recorded in Hansard.

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Question Question Number Date Question Link

In relation to SAPS station commanders:

  1. What are the criteria used to appoint a station commander, (b) how many station commanders in the Western Cape are due to retire at the end of this financial year and (c)(i) how many station commanders have been moved to other police stations in (aa) 2018/19, (bb) 2019/20, (cc) 2020/21, (dd) 2021/22 and (ee) 2022/23 to date and (ii) what are the relevant details and reasons?
 8 28 October 2022 14025

In relation to the enforcement of maintenance orders in the Western Cape:

  1. How many criminal summonses have been (i) issued and (ii) executed for maintenance orders against defaulting parties in (aa) 2019, (bb) 2020 and (cc) 2021, (b) how many cases are before the maintenance court and (c) what was the average turnaround time at the maintenance court in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021?
 7 28 October 2022 14024

In relation to the enforcement of maintenance orders in the Western Cape:

(a)   How many warrants of arrest does the SAPS currently have for maintenance orders against defaulting parties, (b)(i) what is the process of executing these warrants of arrest and (ii) have these processes been followed, (c) how many warrants of arrest have been executed in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020 and (iii) 2021 and (d)(i) what were the reasons for not executing warrants of arrest and (ii) what are the relevant details?

 6 28 October 2022 14023

(1)  Whether he has met with any civil society organisations outside the Western Cape and encouraged their members to relocate to the Western Cape; if so, what are the details of (a) such meetings attended and (b) the organisations that invited him;

(2)  whether he plans to address meetings in other provinces where he will encourage residents from those provinces to relocate to the Western Cape; if so, what are the relevant details?

 15 11 November 2022 14022
  1. Whether he has studied the report and recommendations of the Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding the irregular appointment of a chief director in the Department of Social Development; if not, why not; if so, what were the (a) findings and (b) recommendations of the PSC;
  2. whether he will implement these recommendations; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  3. whether he will take any action against the Minister of Social Development regarding her role in this appointment; if not, why not; if so, when will he announce his decision on the matter?
 14 11 November 2022 14021

With regard to contracts offered to a certain company, whose name has been furnished to his Department for the purpose of his response, between 2019 and 2022 to date:

  1. What (i) is the value and (ii) are the details of contracts that his Department has given to this company in (aa) 2019, (bb) 2020, (cc) 2021 and (dd) 2022 to date, (b) what are the details of the housing developments that have been protected by this company during the period in (a) above and (c) what is the breakdown per municipality?
 13 11 November 2022 14020

With regard to contracts offered to a company, whose name has been furnished to his Department for the purpose of his reply, between 2019 and 2022 to date:

Whether his Department and/or other provincial government departments and entities have offered contracts to this company; if so, (a) what are the details of the contracts offered to this company per department, (b) what the value of each contract was and (c) what are the details of the (i) directors and (ii) BBBEE level of this company?

 12 11 November 2022 14019

With regard to the creation of the two new departments of Mobility and Infrastructure as promised in SOPA 2022:

  1. What progress has been made with regard to the creation of these departments, (b) what tasks that have been undertaken and completed to date and (c) what will be the (i) organisational structure, (ii) directorates, (iii) staff complement and (iv) budget for each of these departments?
 11 11 November 2022 14018

Whether he is aware of any allegations of sexual harassment that have been made against any of the heads of department of the Western Cape Government from 1 January 2019 to date; if so, (a) what are the details of the allegations that have been made, (b) how these allegations were investigated and (c) what were the outcomes of such investigations?

 10 11 November 2022 14017

The EFF is in possession of a document from your Department that was found in a trash bin and contains the personal information of residents of Kanana who applied for housing opportunities in Forest Village and have not received any:

  1. (a) How is it possible that a document containing sensitive, personal information of housing applicants, who submitted that information to your Department, is found in a trash bin and (b) why have those applicants not been granted housing to date;
  2. whether his Department will investigate how this document ended up in the trash; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
 9 11 November 2022 14016

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