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, 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;
  2. 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?
 5 30 April 2020 10029
  1. 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?
 4 30 April 2020 10028

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:

  1. (a) What is the total number of homeless people housed at the shelter and (b) how many have been relocated with their families;
  2. whether the findings have been brought to her attention; if so, how will she and her Department intervene to address the highlighted challenges;
  3. what are the reasons for not practicing social distancing at the shelter, as mattresses are less than 1,5 m apart;
  4. 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;
  5. 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;
  6. 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;
  7. 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?
 3 30 April 2020 10027

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:

 

  1. 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?
 2 30 April 2020 10026

With regards to the Department of Health’s response to COVID-19:

Quarantine and field-hospital sites:

  1. (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:

  1. (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:
  2. 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?
 1 30 April 2020 10025
  1. 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?
 6 5 June 2020 10024

 

  1. 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?
 5 5 June 2020 10023

Whether COVID-19 has had an impact on preparations for the 2023 Netball World Cup; if so, what are the relevant details?

 13 5 June 2020 10022

With regard to COVID-19 transmissions in retail businesses between level 5 and level 4:

1. (a) What is the total number of tests conducted at workplaces, (b) how many workplace transmissions were recorded and (c) what is the total number of essential workers, particularly those in the retail sector, who passed away due to COVID-19;

2. whether she can give a breakdown of workplace transmissions in the various identified hotspots in the province; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 4 5 June 2020 10020

On 18 May 2020, Dr M Moodley, Head of the Western Cape Department of Health, sent the members of the Ad-hoc Committee on COVID-19 a document titled “Questions stemming from the Ad hoc Committee meeting on 22 April 2020”. This document indicates that the Western Cape had “traced” 11 181 contacts and had isolated 11 181. Can the Minister confirm:

1. (a) Whether this was the total number of contacts traced or (b) the total number of contacts identified for tracing and (c) at what date;

2. how does her Department account for this 100% isolation of the number of contacts traced;

3. what is the current situation with contact identification and tracing regarding the (a) current number of positive cases, (b) number of contacts identified for tracing, (c) number of identified contacts reached and (d) number of contacts in isolation?

 3 5 June 2020 10019

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