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

How do he and his Department plan to address and turn around the increasing percentages between the 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years of surfaced and gravel roads classified as “very poor” and “poor” as illustrated by Tables 28 and 29 in his Department’s Annual Report for 2018/19?

 4 18 October 2019 9963

(a) How many clandestine manufacturing drug laboratories have been shut down in the province in (i) 2014/15, (ii) 2015/16, (iii) 2016/17, (iv) 2017/18, (v) 2018/19 and (vi) 2019/20 to date, (b) how many drug dens have been discovered and shut down over the same period, (c) how often have confiscated illicit substances been destroyed over the same period and (d) how many substances have gone missing from SAPS storage after having been confiscated over the same period?

 3 18 October 2019 9962

With regard to his announcement of the “Provincial Traffic Restructuring” and the introduction of an “interception unit” and a “highway patrol”:

(1) What is the difference in terms of the function, purpose, mandate and powers of the new “interception unit” compared with the function, purpose, mandate and powers of the provincial “Traffic Law Enforcement Authority” and a “traffic officer” prior to the introduction of the “interception unit”;

(2) what is the difference in terms of the function, purpose, mandate and powers of the new “highway patrol” compared with the function, purpose, mandate and powers of the provincial “Traffic Law Enforcement Authority” and a “traffic officer” prior to the introduction of the “highway patrol”;

(3) whether the “Provincial Traffic Restructuring” and the introduction of an “interception unit” and a “highway patrol” are included in the provincial Traffic Law Enforcement Authority’s integrated strategic and tactical plan as required by the National Road Traffic Law Enforcement Code; if so, what are the relevant details;

(4) whether the introduction of an “interception unit” and a “highway patrol” involves the recruitment and appointment of additional traffic officers or whether these units will be staffed by current employees; if so, how many new traffic officers will be or have been appointed for the “interception unit” and the “highway patrol” respectively;

(5) whether the introduction of an “interception unit” and a “highway patrol” involves the procurement of new and/or additional vehicles and equipment; if so, (a) what are the details of the procurement of new and/or additional vehicles and equipment and (b) what is the budget or cost of the procurement; if not;

(6) whether the vehicles used by the “interception unit” and the “highway patrol” are rebranded existing vehicles of the Traffic Law Enforcement Authority; if so, what is the cost of the rebranding?

 2 18 October 2019 9960

With reference to his reply to question 20 publish in the Question Paper for Written Reply on 6 September 2019 and in the Question Paper for Oral Reply on 3 October 2019:

(1) What are the details of the court cases or court actions that halted the housing projects at (a) Pickwick Street, Woodstock, (b) the Fruit and Veg site, Cape Town’s inner city, (c) the Woodstock Hospital site, Woodstock, (d) the New Market site at the edge of the inner city, (e) Woodstock Park, Woodstock, and (f) the foreshore freeway (a combination of inner-city housing and transport improvement which was to be undertaken at no cost to ratepayers) and resulted in the cancellation of the provisioning of well-located housing for thousands of families;

(2) whether he deliberately misled the House by suggesting that the Maiden’s Cove project was my project while it was indeed led by Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson?

 1 18 October 2019 9959

 

  1. What impact has the closure of Sassa offices had on the provision of social-distress relief across the Western Cape, (b) how many telephone calls has her Department received during the crisis and (c) what is the breakdown of these telephone calls by category?

 

 7 8 May 2020 9958
  1. Whether any employees from his Department rent homes from his Department in Sanddrift, Cape Town; if so, (a) how many, (b) what is the job level of each person and (c) what salary does each person earn;
  2. whether any of these employees receive a housing subsidy from the Western Cape Government; if so, what is the amount of the subsidy
 3 15 November 2019 9957
  1. How many shelters for vulnerable women and children are currently operating in the lockdown period and (b) how many vulnerable persons have utilised the services of these shelters?
 6 8 May 2020 9956

With regard to food relief:

 

  1. How are beneficiaries identified, (b) how does her Department support the work of NGOs that are carrying out emergency relief, (c) what mechanisms are in place to prevent any wastage and the improper distribution of food parcels to beneficiaries and (d) how much social-development assistance in terms of food parcels has been provided to the Kannaland Municipality during the lockdown period?
 5 8 May 2020 9955

With regard to the travel of essential services seasonal workers with homes outside the Western Cape:

 

  1. Approximately how many of these seasonal workers indicated a preference to return to their homes outside the Western Cape after the end of the deciduous fruit season and
  2. how many of them were able to make use of the window period during the first week of May 2020 that allowed them to cross provincial boundaries?
 3 8 May 2020 9954

(a) How does the allocated budget for the eradication of alien vegetation in the province compare with the ideal amounts required to address the need to eradicate alien vegetation in our nature areas effectively and (b) to what extent must the Western Cape provincial budget be spent on exit areas previously used by the national government’s former Department of Forestry for its plantations;

Whether the national Department of Environmental Affairs is contributing to the efforts to eradicate alien vegetation in the province; if so, what are the relevant details?

 4 8 May 2020 9953

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