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

Over the 2025 MTEF period, R43,789 billion has been allocated to the Growth for Jobs Strategy (G4J Strategy), which sets an ambitious annual economic growth target of 4% to 6%:

  1. What success, if any, has the G4J Strategy, adopted in 2023, achieved since being implemented, (b) what internal benchmarks or review mechanisms have been established to assess its effectiveness and to ensure that targets are met and (c) how is progress being measured beyond economic projections?
 4 22 May 2025 19013

With regard to reports indicating, among others, corruption and undue influences in the Theewaterskloof, Swellendam and Matzikama municipalities:

Whether he and his Department have intervened; if so, (a) when and (b) what are the interventions?

 3 22 May 2025 19012
  1. How many foreign nationals have trading permits in the province;
  2. whether there are plans to prioritise Western Cape citizens in economic development plans; if so, what are the relevant details?
 2 22 May 2025 19011
  1. What specific activities are undertaken by his Department, in respect of the mandate of Programme 3: Trade and Sector Development, to confront the evidently illegality of the employment of illegal immigrants in the province, specifically in the construction (exposed by findings from George building collapse), tourism, retail, agriculture and hospitality industries;
  2. whether his Department has taken up this matter with industry captains and/or industry bodies; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  3. what is the number of lost job opportunities that would have fallen to the citizens of the province?
 1 22 May 2025 19010
  1. What measures are in place to assist municipalities that do not have licensed waste facilities, (b) what is the time frame for these measures and (c) what is the (i) interim solution to assist municipalities and (ii) available budget?
 3 24 April 2025 19009
  1. What steps has the Department implemented to safeguard water security given the lower-than-average rainfall projections for this winter season and
  2. how are municipalities being supported with the implementation of these management strategies during this period?
 7 24 April 2025 19008

With regard to the backlog at the SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory:
(a) How does the backlog affect active cases and (b) what steps is her Department taking to hold the South African Police Service to account to ensure a decrease in the backlog?

 16 8 May 2025 18987

With regard to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the three local spheres of government:
(1)
How will the signed agreement help with policing in rural communities;
(2)
whether similar MOUs are envisaged

 15 8 May 2025 18986

(a) Which municipalities in the Western Cape have outstanding Eskom debt and (b) what steps is her Department taking to ensure that this debt is paid?

 14 8 May 2025 18985

With reference to the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act 1 of 1999) and in particular the Minister’s and the provincial Treasury’s legislative obligations in terms thereof:
(1)
Whether the provincial budget tabled in March 2024 was compliant with Section 27(3)(b) of the PFMA with respect to the estimates of current expenditure for the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) vote in respect of Cost of Employment; if not, why not;
(2)
given the provincial Treasury's legal duty under Section 18(1) of the PFMA, how did a multi-billion-rand gap in the WCED’s Cost of Employment emerge within just four months;
(3)
whether she has initiated any formal inquiry or investigation to determine whether the Education Department’s accounting officer committed financial misconduct in the light of the R3,8 billion shortfall, as required by Section 81(1)(a) of the PFMA; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 7 8 May 2025 18984

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