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With regard to the COVID-19 outbreak: - Whether the COVID-19 outbreak has had any impact on her Department’s budget and on the funding of various stakeholders and entities; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- Whether her Department has offered any support to athletes, artists, sport fraternities and traditional leaders during the nationwide lockdown; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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12 |
30 April 2020 |
10039 |
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With regard to the COVID-19 outbreak: - Whether her Department was consulted and supports of the use of the Strandfontein sports grounds as a temporary shelter for homeless people; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- Whether there are any other sports facilities that have been availed and/or are currently in use for the COVID-19 response; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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11 |
30 April 2020 |
10038 |
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With regard to the phase 1 economic measures announced by the national Minister of Finance, including (1) the immediate release of fund to where it was needed and (2) Instruction Note 8 of 2019/20 applicable to Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) institutions and Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) Circular 100 for municipalities and municipal entities to speed up the procurement of goods or commodities that are required to reduce and control the spread of the virus: - Whether her department heeded the call to speed up the procurement of the goods or commodities required to reduce and control the spread of the virus; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
whether, with regard to the immediate release of funds to where it is needed, her Department received any allocation; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? - whether, with regard to the immediate release of funds to where it is needed, her Department received any allocation; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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30 April 2020 |
10037 |
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With regard to the COVID-19 pandemic and the national lockdown that has slowed down government services and programmes: - What is the projected aggregate spend by municipalities for this quarter of the financial year versus their budgets?
- Whether there is any variances and whether this points to the possible under-spending of most municipal budgets; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details and breakdown ?
- What measures have been put in place by his Department for municipalities to mitigate the budget risks for municipal finances and spending associated with the lockdown and COVID-19?
- Whether there are any municipalities that have exercised the Regulation No 429 by the National Treasury on the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 – Exemption from Act and Regulations – under one or both conditions stipulated in section 3(1)(2); if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
- Whether there are any municipalities that have passed special adjustment budgets given that there are only two months before the municipal financial year-end; if not, why not; if so, what are relevant details, including details of major shifts, adjustments and revised or new areas of spending related and/or not related to COVID-19 emergencies?
- (a)(i) Which conditional grants have been affected by COVID-19 and the lockdown? and (ii) What are the details per municipality, (b)(i) What major revenue streams have been affected by COVID-19 and the lockdown per municipality and (ii) How has this exposure been managed by each municipality?
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9 |
30 April 2020 |
10036 |
- Whether the medical personnel who are conducting widespread community screening and testing are provided with security; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether the SAPS and other law enforcement members who are assisting in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak have the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE); if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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8 |
30 April 2020 |
10034 |
- Whether he can provide a detailed breakdown of arrests, and the respective transgressions, made during the period of the national lockdown; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether any arrests related to (a) murder, (b) drugs, (c) the possession of illegal firearms and (d) gangsterism were made during the period of the national lockdown; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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7 |
30 April 2020 |
10032 |
- What is the number of forensic personnel who are employed in the province;
- whether she has made provision to employ additional forensic personnel in the event of an overwhelming increase in COVID-19-related deaths; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether the mortuaries have enough space to cope with large numbers of corpses in the event of an overwhelming increase in COVID-19-related deaths; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether, with regard to COVID-19 recoveries in the province, she can provide a breakdown by region and ward; if so, what are the relevant details;
- (a) what is the total number and (b) what are the details of the occupations of the essential workers who have contracted COVID-19;
- whether any medical personnel have been infected with COVID-19; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether the province has sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical personnel; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- (a) of the total number of COVID-19 cases, how many people contracted the virus while they were buying essential goods in shopping malls and shopping centres and (b) what extra precautionary measures have been put in place at shopping malls and shopping centres to prevent the spread of COVID-19?
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30 April 2020 |
10030 |
- Whether, with regard to the positive COVID-19 cases in the province, she can (a) provide a breakdown of the number of people who are quarantined in government quarantine sites and (b) indicate how many people are self-isolating at home; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether, with regard to the COVID-19 cases at Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein where people live with their families at home, provision has been made to take these patients to quarantine sites or self-isolation sites; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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5 |
30 April 2020 |
10029 |
- What measures have been put in place to curb the increase in the number of cases of gender-based violence during the nationwide lockdown and (b) how is her Department assisting the victims of gender-based violence during the nationwide lockdown?
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4 |
30 April 2020 |
10028 |
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With regard to the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) finding that gross overcrowding at the Strandfontein temporary shelter posed dangerous risks for the homeless of contracting COVID-19 and tuberculosis: - (a) What is the total number of homeless people housed at the shelter and (b) how many have been relocated with their families;
- whether the findings have been brought to her attention; if so, how will she and her Department intervene to address the highlighted challenges;
- what are the reasons for not practicing social distancing at the shelter, as mattresses are less than 1,5 m apart;
- whether she and her Department (a) support calls for the decentralisation of the service and (b) will engage with municipalities to accommodate homeless people in various community halls and other unused municipal buildings; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether it has been brought to her attention that the City of Cape has issued fines to homeless people; if so, how will she intervene;
- whether her Department has provided victim support to the homeless person raped at the Strandfontein temporary shelter; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
- whether measures have been put in place to prevent the reoccurrence of rape at the site; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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30 April 2020 |
10027 |
