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

Regarding the impact of the recent extreme weather and severe flooding on the province’s tourism infrastructure and transport networks:
(a)
What is his Department’s preliminary assessment on the structural damages sustained by tourism enterprises across the hardest-hit regions and (b) what comprehen-sive (i) travel advisory, (ii) safety directives or (iii) status reports has Wesgro or his De-partment issued to tourists navigating the affected areas?

 22 22 May 2026 20953

In the light of the severe weather front, gale-force winds and catastrophic flooding that struck parts of the Western Cape between 5 and 12 May 2026:

  1. (a) What is his Department’s preliminary assessment of the total number of hectare of agricultural land damaged as a result of the weather and (b) what are the current

departmental estimates regarding the total financial cost of the damage inflicted on agricultural infrastructure, including but not limited to (i) irrigation systems and pumping equipment, (ii) farm fencing, (iii) private access roads and bridges and (iv) riverbanks, riparian zones and sediment deposits in orchards and vineyards;

  1. what is the (a) projected financial value of crop losses for the 2026 harvest season and (b) anticipated impact of these losses on the province’s total agricultural export production volumes;
  2. (a) what is the estimated number of agricultural jobs that have been disrupted as a result of the adverse weather and (b) what immediate mechanisms is his Department deploying to assist the affected producers?

 

 21 22 May 2026 20952

With reference to his reply to question 3 of 11 July 2025:
(1)
(a) What progress has been made since July 2025 to transition these specific munici-pal pilot projects into fully scaled, formal municipal services and (b) which munici-palities, if any, have successfully scaled their programmes over the past year;
(2)
what interventions has his Department implemented to resolve the (a) teething problems associated with the extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations and (b) infrastructural challenges blocking local government partnerships with product responsibility organisations (PROs);
(3)
how many additional low-income households have been reached by (a) municipal S@S programmes, (b) swop shops or (c) buyback centres since the last report indicated that only gfive municipalities were operating in these areas?

 20 22 May 2026 20951

In the light of safety and security challenges, including muggings and criminal attacks, that have an impact on visitors in the open-access areas of the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) footprint:

    1. What is (a) the current status and (b) progress regarding the finalisation of the Heads of Agreement (HOA) between the City of Cape Town, SANParks and CapeNature aimed at coordinating management on the mountain;
    1. (a) What (i) specific roles, (ii) operational mandates, (iii) enforcement responsibil-ities and (iv) property management agreements are expected to be performed by the agencies under current arrangements and (b) how will this address (i) safety con-cerns, (ii) streamlining joint law enforcement deployments and (iii) maximising monitoring capacity to combat crime across the mountain chain effectively?
 19 22 May 2026 20950

With regard to the announcement by her Department that more than 800 new posts, including 316 nurses and 124 doctors, will be added as part of the 2026/27 health budget:

(a)   At which hospitals, clinics or other health facilities will these health professionals be allocated or placed, (b) what is the timeline for the recruitment and appointment process and (c)(i) how many of these health professionals have already been appointed and placed as at the latest date for which information is available and (ii) at which facilities have they been placed?

 18 22 May 2026 20949

With regard to mortality statistics at public health facilities:

(a)   What is the number of deaths recorded at each public hospital in the province from 2024 to date and (b) what are the primary causes of death recorded at each hospital during this period, disaggregated by category of cause of death?

 17 22 May 2026 20948

With regard to forensic pathology services in the province:

  1. (a) What is the total number of forensic pathologists currently employed in the province, (b) what is the current caseload per forensic pathologist, expressed as an average ratio of cases per practitioner, and (c) what are the prescribed standards and norms for workload allocation for forensic pathologists in provincial forensic services;
  2. (a) what is the current backlog of forensic pathology cases, including the exact number of cases in waiting;
  3. what is the average workload and caseload per forensic pathologist during periods of peak or seasonal high mortality in the province;
  4. what measures are being implemented to address staffing shortages and to reduce the backlog in forensic pathology services, particularly during periods of increased mortality demand?
 16 22 May 2026 20947

With regard to emergency medical services and ambulance provision in the province:

  1. What is the (i) number of ambulances allocated to each municipality and (ii) average response time per municipality for emergency medical services, (b) what measures are in place to address the shortages of ambulances or delays in response times in municipalities and (c) what are the safety measures put in place to protect paramedics?
 15 22 May 2026 20946

With regard to indigent households in municipalities:

  1. (i) What is the number of indigent households per municipality and (ii) what meas-ures are currently in place to support indigent households across municipalities and (b) what additional interventions are being implemented to improve the service delivery and social support to indigent households where needed?
 14 22 May 2026 20945

With regard to staffing and vacancies in the departments of the Western Cape Government (WCG) in the last five financial years:

  1. (a) What are the details of posts that have been advertised, (b) which posts have not been advertised, (c)(i) what is the longest period for which a vacancy has remained unfilled in each WCG department and (ii) why and (d)(i) which posts have experienced the longest delays in being filled per department and (ii) why;
  1. (a) what is the total cost of employment (COE) budget allocated to each provincial department, (b) what is the expenditure breakdown of the COE per department, disaggregated per quarter, and (c) what are the reasons for any variances between the budgeted COE and the actual expenditure per quarter?
 13 22 May 2026 20944

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