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. Whether there are any teachers who have not received their salaries for July; if so, (a) what is the number of teachers affected and (b) what caused the delay;
  2. whether any teacher assistants have been employed by her Department; if so, (a) how many teachers assistants, (b) at which schools and districts have they been deployed and (c) what are the plans to retain them in the system?
 6 14 August 2020 10260

(a) What is the number of teachers with underlying conditions who have been allowed to work from home and (b) what tools of the trade has her Department provided to them?

 8 31 July 2020 10259

Whether there exists deep racial polarisation in the province; if not, why not; if so, what is his government’s programmes to deracialise the province and to bring about a non-racial Western Cape?

 7 31 July 2020 10258

(1)    (a) What is the (i) number and (ii) details of informal settlements that were negatively affected by the recent storms that hit the province in July and (b) what is the number of residents who were affected by the storms, including those whose homes were flooded;

(2)    whether his Department provided any assistance to the residents in informal settlements who were affected by the storms; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;

(3)    whether he visited any of the affected informal settlements; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
 

 6 31 July 2020 10257

(a)    What is the number of COVID-19 tests that have been conducted in the province for the period (i) 1 April to 31 May 2020 and (ii) 1 June to 20 July 2020, (b) what is the number of contacts that have been traced between 1 June and 20 July 2020, (c) what circumstances have led to the slow transmission of COVID-19 in the province between June and July 2020 and (d) what are the reasons for the high COVID-19 fatalities in the Western Cape as compared to other provinces with higher infections?

 5 31 July 2020 10256

(a) What is the number of jobs that have been lost in the Western Cape between 1 April and 20 July 2020, (b) what is the breakdown of the job losses per industry and (c) what are the plans to support the affected industries and to prevent further job losses?

 4 31 July 2020 10255

What are the (a) details, (b) qualifications and (c) remuneration of board members of all the state entities in the Province?

 3 31 July 2020 10254
  1. Whether there are any schools in the province that are experiencing teacher shortages; if so, (a) what are the details of each school, (b) what is the breakdown of teacher shortages per school and (c) what intervention measures have been taken to respond to this challenge;
  2. whether she can give a detailed breakdown of all the challenges experienced by the various districts with regard to the return of leaners to schools; if so, what are the relevant details?
 5 14 August 2020 10253

(1)    (a) How much was spent on the establishment of desalination plants as a water augmentation response to Day Zero and the drought in the province, (b) how many desalination plants have been established, (c) what is the (i) cost breakdown and (ii) status of each plant, (d) what was the envisaged volumes of water to be produced by this process, and (e) what has ultimately been received from each desalination plant to date;

(2)    whether some of the desalination plants have gotten into legal disputes; if so, (a) what are the relevant details per plant, (b) what is cost of litigation to date and (c) provide details per plant of the (i) status of such processes and (ii) cost to date of such litigation or decommissioning;

(3)    whether some of the desalination plants are being decommissioned; if so, (a) why, (b) what is the status of the process and (c) what is the cost to date of the decommissioning;

(4)    (a) what are the details of the service providers that were commissioned to establish these desalination plants and (b) how much did each service provider get from the contract?
 

 2 31 July 2020 10252

With regard to the WCED’s PPE procurement:

  1. What are the details of the companies that have been utilised to provide PPE, (b) what are the names of the directors of those companies, (c) what is the BBBEE status of those companies, (d) how much was paid to each of those company and (e) what process was followed in the awarding of contracts to those companies?
 4 14 August 2020 10251

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