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 News24 article published on 16 April 2025 regarding the abandoned foetus and the access to safe abortion services: 

 

  1. Whether there are any reports detailing instances where healthcare practitioners in abortion clinics have chastised or discouraged women from obtaining an abortion; if so, how many;
  2. whether any reports have been made of women facing obstetric violence within these clinics; if so, what safeguards are in place to ensure that women seeking abortions in these clinics feel safe and free from judgment? 
 6 8 May 2025 18977

(a) How many projects have been allocated to Communicare for social housing and (b) (i) how many of these are still being finalised and (ii) why these projects are not finalised? 

 5 8 May 2025 18976

 

What is the overview of usage patterns at (a) the 10 most used the e-centres in Cape Town and (b) what are the details of the most (i) used e-centres and (ii) accessed services?

 3 8 May 2025 18975

With regard to the George building collapse investigations by the Western Cape Government:

  1. What are the purposes of these investigations by his provincial government if the South African Police Services (SAPS) and the National Department of Employment and Labour are already conducting similar investigations and (b) what caused the investigations by the province to take long, similar to those of the SAPS and the Department of Labour?
 2 8 May 2025 18974

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

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