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 reference to the additional water that would be available once the capacity of the feeder canal to the Brandvlei Dam is increased:

1. (a) What criteria does the national Department of Water and Sanitation consider in order to determine allocations of water for the irrigation of agricultural land, (b) what would be the process to apply for such water rights and (c) when is the application process expected to commence;

(2)   whether his Department has any role to play in this regard, especially to speed up the decision-making processes by the national Department; if so, what are the relevant details?

 4 25 February 2022 11565

With regard to his SOPA 2022 announcement about the building of security fences at 30 schools in the province:

  1. (a) What are the details of the 30 schools that will benefit from this project this year, (b) how have these schools been identified, (c) what are the details of the schools that benefited from the project in (i) 2019/20, (ii) 2020/21 and (iii) 2021/22 to date and (d) what was the budget for this project per (i) year and (ii) school;
  2. whether there are plans in place to ensure that security fences at 30 schools will be built each year from 2019/20 to the end of the sixth administration?
 15 18 February 2022 11564

With regard to the unemployment rate in those communities that are in the top 30 murder precincts nationally:

What have been the (a) number and (b) percentage of unemployed people in these communities in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018, (vi) 2019, (vii) 2020, (viii) 2021 and (ix) 2022 to date?

 14 18 February 2022 11563
  1. (a) When was the decision to stop funding the community policing forums (CPFs) taken and (b) what was the rationale behind it;
  2. whether a copy of the minutes of the meeting at which the decision was taken can be made available;
  3. whether her Department sought any legal and expert advice before the decision was taken; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  4. (a) what relationship does her Department have with CPFs in the province and (b) what are the details of the meetings that were held with each CPF over the past 12 months?
 13 18 February 2022 11562
  1. (i) What is the number of learners who were placed at schools on the 15th school day in the province and (ii) how many were unplaced and (b)(i) what is the number of learners who have not been placed at the Murray High School and (ii) what are the reasons therefor?
 12 18 February 2022 11561

With regard to learners who were unplaced in schools in the province on 19 January 2022, 1 February 2022 and 14 February 2022:

  1. What is the racial breakdown of the unplaced learners, (b) how many of these unplaced learners have been placed at schools as at the latest date for which information is available, (c) what are the details of the schools at which all these learners have been placed and (d) what is the (i) number and (ii) details of schools with class sizes (aa) below 30 and (bb) above 45 in the province?
 11 18 February 2022 11560

Whether his Department has established community Wi-Fi hotspots in any of the 406 wards in the province; if not, why not; if so, (a) in how many wards have they been established and (b) at which physical addresses have they been provided, including the ward number and physical address of each Wi-Fi hot-spot?

 

 10 18 February 2022 11559

With regard to foreign-registered vehicles:

  1. Whether his Department will investigate the possibility of building up a provincial database of (a) vehicles with foreign registration numbers and (b) foreign drivers using the province’s road; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
  2. whether his Department plans to engage with the national government about adding foreign vehicles that enter South Africa at border posts to such a database; if not, how does the Department intend to enforce traffic regulations regarding foreign-registered vehicles and/or foreign drivers; if so, what are the relevant details?
 8 18 February 2022 11558

What is his Department’s contribution to (a) address climate change and (b) mitigate the effects thereof?

 

 7 18 February 2022 11557

With regard to the Western Cape Government App:

  1. Whether local municipalities are making use of the app to create a centralised online demand database; if so, which municipalities;
  1. whether his Department is aware of the reasons why municipalities are not currently using the app; if so,
  1. whether his Department plans to engage these municipalities?
 6 18 February 2022 11556

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