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.

On this page you can search questions for written reply. Use one or more of the search fields by making a selection from the relevant dropdown menu. You can also do a text search by entering a search term in the text field– specific search terms will render a better result. Click ‘Apply’. The results will be displayed in the table below. Click on ‘Question Link’ to view the full result. When you are searching, it is advisable to complete as many of the search fields as possible in order to narrow down the results.

Question Question Number Date Question Link

What did the department spend on (a) marketing and (b) advertising on (i) radio, (ii) television, (iii) print media for every financial year from 2009 to the latest available date for which information is available, for each of the cases, which (aa) radio, (bb) television and (cc) print media were used and (dd) at what cost?

 8 12 June 2015 12271
  1. Whether a land audit has been conducted in the province; if not why not; if so, in which areas was it conducted;

 

  1. whether he will make a copy of the audit available;

 

 what are the plans by his Department to develop areas nearer to town as part of redressing apartheid spatial planning?

 7 12 June 2015 12270

How many vacant posts were there in the organogram of his department during the 2014/15 financial year, for each post, (a) What is the level, (b) how long have they been vacant (c) what are the reasons for not filling it?

 6 12 June 2015 12269

How many vacant posts were there in the organogram of her department during the 2014/15 financial year, for each post, (a) what is the level, (b) how long have they been vacant and (c) what are the reasons for not filling it;

 

(2)  whether there are consequences in relation to the vacancies for the head of the units and the overall head of the Department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;

 

(3)  (a) what performance risks did this pose to the (i) units and (ii) department, (b) how much did the non-filling of vacancies contribute to under expenditure and (c) what percentage of the under expenditure relate to infrastructure that had to do with vacancies?

 5 22 June 2015 12268
  1. How many vacant posts were there in the organogram of his department during the 2014/15 financial year, for each post, (a) what is the level, (b) how long have they been vacant and (c) what are the reasons for not filling it;

 

  1. whether there are consequences in relation to the vacancies for the head of the units and the overall head of the Department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;

 

 (a) what performance risks did this pose to the (i) units and (ii) department, (b) how much did the non-filling of vacancies contribute to under expenditure and (c) what percentage of the under expenditure relate to infrastructure that had to do with vacancies?

 4 12 June 2015 12267
  1. How many of the 7000 police officers that left the South African Police Service in 2014/15 were officers serving in the Western Cape;
  1. whether former or retired officers have been or will be re-enlisted; if so, what are the relevant details;
  2. what measures are in place to address the vacancies and shortage of officers in the province?
 3 12 June 2015 12266
  1. Whether his department received any donations, direct or indirect, in the past year; if so, in respect of each donation received, (a) from whom, (b) what was the reason for the donation, (c) what was it used for, (d) what was the monetary value of the donation and (e) what was the benefit to the community;

 

whether any quid pro quo was asked in return from his department for any of the donations; if so, what are the relevant details?

 2 12 June 2015 12265
  1. Whether his department received any donations, direct or indirect, in the past year; if so, in respect of each donation received, (a) from whom, (b) what was the reason for the donation, (c) what was it used for, (d) what was the monetary value of the donation and (e) what was the benefit to the community;

 

whether any quid pro quo was asked in return from his department for any of the donations; if so, what are the relevant details?

 1 12 June 2015 12264

Whether the debt of any municipality in the Western Cape has been written off over the past three years; if not, why not; if so, (a) how much, and (b) for which categories of (i) services, (ii) residential and (iii) business areas?

 6 1 August 2014 12260

(1) (a) What was the order of the Constitutional Court in the court case between himself and the Habitat Council and others, (b) what is his interpretation thereof and (c) how will the court order be executed, especially with regard to appeals in terms of Section 44 of the Land Use Planning Ordinance;

(2) (a) what are the cut-off dates; (b) what were the costs to his department, (c) which officials attended the ruling of the court and (d) at what cost?

 5 1 August 2014 12259

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