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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With reference to an article published on 16 February 2021 on IOL News titled “Beaufort West Municipality implicated in fraudulent contract handover”:
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On 17 February 2021 the Premier announced that the Province had acquired 130 hectares of land that will have the potential to create 13 000 housing opportunities:
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On 17 February 2021 the Premier announced that the Province had acquired 130 hectares of land that will have the potential to create 13 000 housing opportunities:
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(1) What measures are in place to (a) investigate and (b) prevent incidents of bullying and harassment of female staff members in her Department by their male counterparts; (2) whether there have been any complaints of bullying and harassment lodged by female staffers in senior management against their male counterparts between February 2019 and August 2020; if so, (a) what are the relevant details and (b) how were these complaints resolved? |
5 | 4 September 2020 | 10509 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
With regard to school visits by district officials: (1) Whether any schools have been visited by (a) curriculum advisors and/or (b) any other district officials between March and August 2020; if not, why not; if so, how many curriculum advisors and other officials physically visited schools; (2) whether there is a (a) circular and/or (b) any formal communication that instructed curriculum advisors and/or any other district officials not to visit schools during the lockdown; if so, what are the relevant details; (3) (a) how many physical visits to schools did she undertake between March and July 2020, (b) which schools were visited, (c) what are the reasons for this number of visits and (d) when was the last visit; (4) (a) how much has her Department spent on the School Evaluation Authority, (b) what is the breakdown of that expenditure and (c) what work has been done by the School Evaluation Authority during this academic year? |
4 | 4 September 2020 | 10508 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) Whether summons have been issued against the principal and the school governing body (SGB) of the Grove Primary School; if so, what are the (a) details of the summons and (b) transgressions of the parties involved; (2) whether there is any money that is meant to be recovered by the WCED from the principal and SGB; if so, (a) how much is the money and (b) how was it calculated; (3) whether there were any delays between her Department concluding the internal investigation and the issuing of the instructions to the state’s attorneys; if so, what are the relevant details? |
3 | 4 September 2020 | 10507 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 | 4 September 2020 | 10506 |