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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With reference to availing public libraries in the Western Cape as COVID-19 vaccine registration sites: (1) (a) How many individuals were assisted with their respective vaccine registrations, (b) what is the breakdown per region, (c) when did libraries first begin providing this service, (d) is it still ongoing, (e) which libraries provided registration assistance under level 4 and (f) what measures were put in place to assist those who are not computer literate; (2) whether library staff or other officials were trained in order to assist with the provision of COVID-19 registration and vaccination information to residents; if so, (a) what are the relevant details, (b) who provided the training and (c) what support did the provincial Department of Health provide; (3) whether her Department is collaborating with the provincial Department of Health on any other ongoing projects to address the COVID-19 pandemic; if so, what are the relevant details? |
1 | 15 October 2021 | 11054 |
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(1) (a) What is the number of school-bullying incidents and fights that have been reported at the Monument Park High School since 2019 and (b) what are the details of the interventions that her Department and the district office have been put in place to assist the school to deal with issues of (i) ill-discipline and (ii) financial mismanagement; (2) whether any complaints about financial mismanagement at the school have been submitted to her Department regarding the principal and any other members of the senior management team; if so, what are the relevant details; (3) whether there are any investigations that are currently underway about a certain person at the Monument Park High School, whose name has been furnished to her Department for the purpose of her reply; if so, what are the relevant details; (4) what are the details of the qualifications of a certain person, whose name has been furnished to her Department for the purpose of her reply? |
5 | 23 September 2021 | 11053 |
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(1) (a) What are the details of the measures that have been put in place to improve school safety in each of the education districts in the province, (b) what is the detailed breakdown of the deployment of school resource officers at schools in the province and (c) what are the plans to deploy school resource officers at all the schools in the province; (2) (a) what is the detailed breakdown of the deployment of Leap officers at schools in the province and (b) what are the plans to deploy these officers at all the schools in the province? |
4 | 23 September 2021 | 11052 |
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(a) What is the number of teachers who have been attacked (i) inside school premises and (ii) in and around the school community and (b) how many of these resulted in (i) deaths and (ii) hospitalisations in (aa) 2014, (bb) 2015, (cc) 2016, (dd) 2017, (ee) 2018, (ff) 2019, (gg) 2020 and (hh) 2021 to date? |
3 | 23 September 2021 | 11051 |
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(a) What are the details of support measures that have been put in place to support the Western Cape Sports School and other sport-focused schools in the province in order to qualify for the ringfenced funding to schools, (b) what are the details of all sport-focused schools in the province and (c) what is the breakdown of the funding that each school received from her Department in the (i) 2014/15, (ii) 2015/16, (iii) 2016/17, (iv) 2017/18, (v) 2018/19, (vi) 2019/20 and (vii) 2020/21 financial year? |
2 | 23 September 2021 | 11050 |
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With regard to her Department’s Child Care and Protection Programme: (a) What is the number of children placed in foster care and reunified with their families since January 2021, for the latest date for which information is available, and (b) how many parents completed training sessions? |
1 | 23 September 2021 | 11048 |
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With reference to his reply to interpellation 1 of 20 May 2021: (2) whether his Department relies on the City’s alleged offer to determine the purchase price; if so, what are the relevant details; if not, (3) whether it obtained its own valuations; if so, (a) which valuers provided the valuations and (b) what were the valuations; (4) (a) which entity paid for the purchase, (b) why did the City allege its land acquisition process would “take too long” and (c) if the City’s processes would “take too long”, why did the City allegedly make two offers to purchase; (5) whether his Department was aware that the department responsible for land acquisition for housing in the City of Cape Town (a) did not support the acquisition or purchase of the property and (b) was of the view that the property was overpriced; if so, why did the provincial Department proceed with the purchase? |
7 | 28 May 2021 | 11047 |
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With regard to phase 2 of the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the province: (1) How many people have been (a) registered to receive vaccines to date and (b) vaccinated to date; (2) whether all the healthcare workers in the province have been vaccinated; if not, (a) how many healthcare workers still need to be vaccinated and (b) what is the reason for the process not being completed; (3) (a) what is the current daily average number of registrations in the province recorded on the Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS) and (b) how many doses of the vaccine have been received per week since the start of phase 2 to date; (4) whether there are any challenges pertaining the EVDS that her Department is aware of that present challenges to the roll-out programme in the province; if so, what are the relevant details? |
6 | 28 May 2021 | 11046 |
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With regard to recent media speculation about learners returning to school full-time: (1) Whether schools are currently allowed to have all their learners attending school; if not, why not; if so, what conditions must be met for a school to do so; (2) whether she or her Department is aware of any discussions being held by the national government regarding all schools returning to their normal timetables; if so, what are the relevant details? |
5 | 28 May 2021 | 11043 |
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With reference to the investigation where a young boy, aged 15, was found in possession of a zip gun as reported in the Cape Argus on 4 May 2021: (a) How many such incidences have been identified in the (i) 2016/17, (ii) 2017/18, (iii) 2019/20 and (iv) 2020/21 financial years, (b) what are the trends relating to young people being involved in gang-related crime in the province and (c) what efforts does his Department undertake to mitigate the effects of the adverse social circumstances that may lead young people to gangsterism? |
4 | 28 May 2021 | 11041 |
