- Whether the medical personnel who are conducting widespread community screening and testing are provided with security; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether the SAPS and other law enforcement members who are assisting in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak have the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE); if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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30 April 2020 |
10034 |
- Whether he can provide a detailed breakdown of arrests, and the respective transgressions, made during the period of the national lockdown; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether any arrests related to (a) murder, (b) drugs, (c) the possession of illegal firearms and (d) gangsterism were made during the period of the national lockdown; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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7 |
30 April 2020 |
10032 |
- What is the number of forensic personnel who are employed in the province;
- whether she has made provision to employ additional forensic personnel in the event of an overwhelming increase in COVID-19-related deaths; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether the mortuaries have enough space to cope with large numbers of corpses in the event of an overwhelming increase in COVID-19-related deaths; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether, with regard to COVID-19 recoveries in the province, she can provide a breakdown by region and ward; if so, what are the relevant details;
- (a) what is the total number and (b) what are the details of the occupations of the essential workers who have contracted COVID-19;
- whether any medical personnel have been infected with COVID-19; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether the province has sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical personnel; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- (a) of the total number of COVID-19 cases, how many people contracted the virus while they were buying essential goods in shopping malls and shopping centres and (b) what extra precautionary measures have been put in place at shopping malls and shopping centres to prevent the spread of COVID-19?
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6 |
30 April 2020 |
10030 |
- Whether, with regard to the positive COVID-19 cases in the province, she can (a) provide a breakdown of the number of people who are quarantined in government quarantine sites and (b) indicate how many people are self-isolating at home; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether, with regard to the COVID-19 cases at Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein where people live with their families at home, provision has been made to take these patients to quarantine sites or self-isolation sites; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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5 |
30 April 2020 |
10029 |
- What measures have been put in place to curb the increase in the number of cases of gender-based violence during the nationwide lockdown and (b) how is her Department assisting the victims of gender-based violence during the nationwide lockdown?
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4 |
30 April 2020 |
10028 |
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With regard to the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) finding that gross overcrowding at the Strandfontein temporary shelter posed dangerous risks for the homeless of contracting COVID-19 and tuberculosis: - (a) What is the total number of homeless people housed at the shelter and (b) how many have been relocated with their families;
- whether the findings have been brought to her attention; if so, how will she and her Department intervene to address the highlighted challenges;
- what are the reasons for not practicing social distancing at the shelter, as mattresses are less than 1,5 m apart;
- whether she and her Department (a) support calls for the decentralisation of the service and (b) will engage with municipalities to accommodate homeless people in various community halls and other unused municipal buildings; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether it has been brought to her attention that the City of Cape has issued fines to homeless people; if so, how will she intervene;
- whether her Department has provided victim support to the homeless person raped at the Strandfontein temporary shelter; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether measures have been put in place to prevent the reoccurrence of rape at the site; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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30 April 2020 |
10027 |
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With reference to claims made in the media on 2 April 2020 that her Department has several programmes that provide food to approximately 1 000 000 people who are food insecure: - What is the detailed breakdown in terms of (i) age, (ii) area and (iii) food products given and (b) what is the (i) number and (ii) details of child-headed households supported during the lockdown period?
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2 |
30 April 2020 |
10026 |
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With regards to the Department of Health’s response to COVID-19: Quarantine and field-hospital sites: - (a) Which provincial and municipal sites have been allocated or identified for quarantine or field-hospital purposes by each municipality, (b) what is the progress in repurposing these sites, (c)(i) how many additional beds are available at these sites and (ii) where are they located and (d) what is the target number of quarantine or field-hospital beds for the province;
Screening and testing: - (a) Which provincial and municipal sites have been allocated or identified by each municipality for (i) testing, (ii) screening and (iii) triage purposes, (b)(i) how is the door-to-door screening being done and (ii) by whom, (c) how are the areas to be screened identified and (d) how many residents of the Western Cape have been tested for COVID-19 to date;Strandfontein homeless camp:
- The assessment by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the international humanitarian medical NGO, of Cape Town’s Strandfontein homeless camp found that the risk for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus was very high due to “gross overcrowding and because the availability of screening and healthcare services are erratic” and “the danger of doing harm is great and this should alarm anyone”. The NGO has called for the phased decommissioning of the Strandfontein homeless camp. In the light of this finding: Whether her Department agrees with this assessment; if so, what are the relevant details?
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1 |
30 April 2020 |
10025 |
- What is the total number of permits per municipality that has been approved for (i) SMMEs and (ii) informal traders during (aa) level 5 and (bb) level 4, (b)(i) what is the number and details of those applications that have been declined and (ii) what were the reasons thereof and (c) what are the (i) qualifying criteria, (ii) categories of business activity and (iii) demographic profiles of those businesses whose permits were approved?
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6 |
5 June 2020 |
10024 |
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- Why is Khayelitsha regarded as a free-trade zone, (b) how has this status enabled or inhibited the City of Cape Town to provide services to those entrepreneurs trading in Khayelitsha and (c)(i) to which other areas in the City of Cape Town has the same status been granted, (ii) to which areas in other municipalities has the same status been granted, (iii) for how long has this status been granted and (iv) what are the reasons for the granting of this status?
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5 June 2020 |
10023 |
