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

With regard to the Tafelberg Place matter in which the Western Cape Government has been a party in various litigation stages involving the piece of land: 

  1. Whether the Provincial Government is a respondent in the same matter before the Constitutional Court; if so, why;
  2. whether the Provincial Government has now decided to abide by the order of the Western Cape High Court to develop the site for purposes of responding to inner-city social housing deficiencies in an effort to reverse the effects of racially skewed spatial planning; if so, what are the relevant details?
 1 8 May 2025 18973

Hon Bryant.

Whether his Department has received the information requested from the South African Waste Information System; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?         

7 17 April 2025 18950

With reference to the recent shooting and killing of a witness in the Wynberg Court:

(1) Whether the safety of witnesses is assured when appearing in court; if so, what are the relevant details;

(2) what steps are taken to prevent a recurrence of the shooting incident?

 8 8 May 2025 18932
  1. (a) What engagements has his Department had with the national Department of Transport regarding the ongoing breakdown of the only machine responsible for printing driver’s licences and vehicle licence cards in the country, (b) what contingency measures or alternative interventions has his Department implemented to mitigate the impact of the broken licencing machine on service delivery in the province, particularly regarding the issuing of temporary licences or alternative documentation;
  2. whether his Department can provide the following statistics: from the date of the machine breakdown to the latest date for which information is available, (a) the number of pending applications for (i) driver’s licences and (ii) vehicle licence cards in the province, (b) the size and growth of the backlog caused by the printing delays, (c) the number of (i) temporary driver’s and (ii) temporary vehicle licences issued and (d) the average turnaround time for applicants to receive these temporary licences?
 10 17 April 2025 18923

With regard to homelessness-focused NGOs in the Western Cape:

(a)  How many NGOs are funded by his Department,

(b)(i) what are names of these NGOs,

(ii) what do they do and

(iii) what is the amount of funding allocated to each of them,

(c) how much has been spent on NGOs in the past five financial years and

(d) how many people benefit from these NGOs collectively?

 8 17 April 2025 18922

Hon Booysen .

With regard to an article published in the Cape Argus on 14 April that indicate that 17% of learners in South Africa use e-cigarettes, commonly known as vapes:

(a)   What are the most prominent health concerns associated with the use of e-cigarettes and vaping and (b) what is the breakdown of these reported health-related concerns by age group of (i) 15 to 17 and (ii) 18 to 20?

 4 17 April 2025 18921

Hon Minnen

In the light of the City of Cape Town revisiting alternative water sourcing solutions, such as fog harvesting:

How does the Western Cape Government’s Water Resilience Plan support such alter-native water sourcing methods to ensure water security and sustainability?

 3 17 April 2025 18920

On Tuesday 8 April 2025, the Minister announced the Leeuloop Precinct for a mixed-use and affordable housing development. In 2010, the Cape Town Central City Centre Regeneration Programme was launched, earmarking several precincts for development:

  1. Whether the Leeuloop Precinct is the same erven that made up the Provincial Office Precinct in the Cape Town Central City Centre Regeneration Programme of 2010; if not, (a) which erf or erven make up the Leeuloop Precinct and (b) what are the plans for the remaining erven; if so, why was it re-released under a new name;
  2. (a) what are the details of the previous development planning for the erven that make up the Provincial Office Precinct and (b) how much has the provincial government spent on (i) acquiring these erven and (ii) the various development studies or planning for the site or sites;
  3. (a) why have none of the sites included in the Cape Town Central City Centre Regeneration Programme of 2010 been developed as published in February 2011, (b) what are the current development plans for the remaining seven precincts highlighted in the Cape Town Central City Centre Regeneration Programme of 2010, (c) when will these sites be released for development, if applicable, and (d) if these sites are not being released, why not;
  4. whether he has plans to announce mixed-use and affordable housing projects on any inner-city sites that are not in the Cape Town Central City Centre Regeneration Programme of 2010; if so, what are the relevant details?
 2 17 April 2025 18918

Hon Masipa

In the light of the recent reversal of restrictions on cannabis products:

  1. (a) What specific plans does the Western Cape have to support and regulate the cannabis industry in the province, (b) how does his Department intend to collaborate with the national government to ensure coherent policy implementation and (c) what economic opportunities are being explored for cannabis cultivation and processing in the province;
  2. (a) what current initiatives exist to support the (i) industrial hemp and (ii) medicinal cannabis industries in the province and (b) what amount in the budget for the 2025/26 financial year has been allocated to the development of these sectors?
 7 4 April 2025 18916
  1. What is the current prevalence of teenage pregnancies in the province, particularly in disadvantaged communities, and (b) what concrete measures is her Department im-plementing to prevent teenage pregnancies?
 1 24 April 2025 18911

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