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
  1. (a) What are his Department’s qualifying criteria for granting funding to NGOs, (b) how does his Department ensure that the funding is used for what it was intended and (c) since 2014, (i) how many organisations have been found guilty of fraud, corruption or the misuse of funds and (ii) how much money has his Department lost to fraud, corruption or the misuse of funds;
  1. whether any organisations have received funding from his Department without meeting the qualifying criteria; if so, what are the relevant details;
  1. (a) under which circumstances will his Department grant funding to non-qualifying organisations or NPOs and (b) since 2014, how much funding has been granted to organisations that did not meet the qualifying criteria;
  1. (a) how often does his Department conduct oversight of funded organisations and (b) what are the reasons for his Department not monitoring funded organisations?

 

 1 19 October 2018 12491

With regard to the alleged forced resignation of a black teacher at the Rustenburg Girls’ Junior School:

  1. Whether she and her Department knew of challenges with transformation at the school; if not, why not; if so, what interventions did she put in place;
  1. whether she will be taking any remedial action against the principal and the School Governing Body of the school in the light of these events; if not why not, if so what are the relevant details;
  1. whether she has any plans to increase the number of black and coloured teachers at the school; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  1. whether the teacher in question received any emotional support from her Department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  1. what are her plans to address transformation in quintiles 4 and 5 schools?

 

 6 9 November 2018 12490

Whether he and his Department have conducted any investigation into why the plans to build affordable housing on the site of the Salt River Market have been cancelled by the City of Cape Town; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 5 9 November 2018 12489
  1. What are his Department’s plans to reverse the legacy of apartheid spatial planning and (b) what are the details of all the actions that have been taken since 2009 to put these plans into effect?
 4 9 November 2018 12488
  1. What is (a) the total number of informal dwellings in the province and (b) how this number has grown since 2009;
  1. whether his Department has any plans to address the problem; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 

 3 9 November 2018 12487

What is the total number of (i) black, (ii) coloured and (iii) white parents who serve on school governing bodies in quintiles 4 and 5 schools in the province?

 2 9 November 2018 12486
  1. What is the total number of (i) black teachers, (ii) coloured teachers and (iii) white teachers in quintiles 4 and 5 schools in the province and (b) how many are employed by the (i) Western Cape Education Department and (ii) school governing bodies?

 

 1 9 November 2018 12485

In the light of the recent devastating shack fires in Khayelitsha; what is his Department doing to address the issue of the high density of shacks in the Western Cape’s informal settlements?

 4 16 November 2018 12484

What measures his Department has put in place in the past nine years to address the issue of the increasing number of dwellings in informal settlements in the province?

 

 3 16 November 2018 12483

 (1) How many (a) murders and (b) assaults with the intent to do grievous bodily harm took place on trains and at railway stations in the province and were reported in (i) 2016/17, (ii) 2017/18 and (iii) 2018/19 to date; (2) whether any arrests were made; if so, what are the relevant details of each arrest; (3) whether there were any convictions; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 2 16 November 2018 12482

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