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 claims made in the media on 2 April 2020 that her Department has several programmes that provide food to approximately 1 000 000 people who are food insecure:

 

  1. What is the detailed breakdown in terms of (i) age, (ii) area and (iii) food products given and (b) what is the (i) number and (ii) details of child-headed households supported during the lockdown period?
 2 30 April 2020 10026

With regards to the Department of Health’s response to COVID-19:

Quarantine and field-hospital sites:

  1. (a) Which provincial and municipal sites have been allocated or identified for quarantine or field-hospital purposes by each municipality, (b) what is the progress in repurposing these sites, (c)(i) how many additional beds are available at these sites and (ii) where are they located and (d) what is the target number of quarantine or field-hospital beds for the province;

Screening and testing:

  1. (a) Which provincial and municipal sites have been allocated or identified by each municipality for (i) testing, (ii) screening and (iii) triage purposes, (b)(i) how is the door-to-door screening being done and (ii) by whom, (c) how are the areas to be screened identified and (d) how many residents of the Western Cape have been tested for COVID-19 to date;Strandfontein homeless camp:
  2. The assessment by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the international humanitarian medical NGO, of Cape Town’s Strandfontein homeless camp found that the risk for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus was very high due to “gross overcrowding and because the availability of screening and healthcare services are erratic” and “the danger of doing harm is great and this should alarm anyone”. The NGO has called for the phased decommissioning of the Strandfontein homeless camp. In the light of this finding: Whether her Department agrees with this assessment; if so, what are the relevant details?
 1 30 April 2020 10025
  1. What is the total number of permits per municipality that has been approved for (i) SMMEs and (ii) informal traders during (aa) level 5 and (bb) level 4, (b)(i) what is the number and details of those applications that have been declined and (ii) what were the reasons thereof and (c) what are the (i) qualifying criteria, (ii) categories of business activity and (iii) demographic profiles of those businesses whose permits were approved?
 6 5 June 2020 10024

 

  1. Why is Khayelitsha regarded as a free-trade zone, (b) how has this status enabled or inhibited the City of Cape Town to provide services to those entrepreneurs trading in Khayelitsha and (c)(i) to which other areas in the City of Cape Town has the same status been granted, (ii) to which areas in other municipalities has the same status been granted, (iii) for how long has this status been granted and (iv) what are the reasons for the granting of this status?
 5 5 June 2020 10023

Whether COVID-19 has had an impact on preparations for the 2023 Netball World Cup; if so, what are the relevant details?

 13 5 June 2020 10022

With regard to COVID-19 transmissions in retail businesses between level 5 and level 4:

1. (a) What is the total number of tests conducted at workplaces, (b) how many workplace transmissions were recorded and (c) what is the total number of essential workers, particularly those in the retail sector, who passed away due to COVID-19;

2. whether she can give a breakdown of workplace transmissions in the various identified hotspots in the province; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

 4 5 June 2020 10020

On 18 May 2020, Dr M Moodley, Head of the Western Cape Department of Health, sent the members of the Ad-hoc Committee on COVID-19 a document titled “Questions stemming from the Ad hoc Committee meeting on 22 April 2020”. This document indicates that the Western Cape had “traced” 11 181 contacts and had isolated 11 181. Can the Minister confirm:

1. (a) Whether this was the total number of contacts traced or (b) the total number of contacts identified for tracing and (c) at what date;

2. how does her Department account for this 100% isolation of the number of contacts traced;

3. what is the current situation with contact identification and tracing regarding the (a) current number of positive cases, (b) number of contacts identified for tracing, (c) number of identified contacts reached and (d) number of contacts in isolation?

 3 5 June 2020 10019

Contact tracing is an important step in the public-health response to the pandemic. According to the national Minister of Health, the Province had identified 9 204 contacts for tracing as at 15 May 2020 and had reached 7 614. By this date the Western Cape had 7 798 positive cases. This means that the Western Cape had identified only 1,2 contacts on average per positive case and had reached fewer than one contact per positive case. The Minister’s statistics indicated that, at 83% of the identified contacts reached, the Western Cape is reaching the lowest percentage of contacts in the country.

1 (a) Why is the Western Cape identifying so few contacts per positive case and (b) why is the Western Cape reaching on average fewer than one contact per positive case;

2. why is the Western Cape not reaching more contacts?

 2 5 June 2020 10018

 On 19 May 2020 the national Minister of Health released statistics on the coronavirus pandemic:

As at 14 May 2020 the Western Cape had done the lowest number of community screenings of any province in the country, namely 404 143:

1. (a) Why are the Western Cape’s community-screening results lower than any other province and (b) how has the Western Cape been implementing community screening;

2. whether the Western Cape has implemented any measures to increase the community-screening performance; if so, what are the relevant details;

3 (a) what is the current number of community screenings being done in the province and (b) what is the referral rate?

 1 5 June 2020 10017

Whether he can provide the (a) founding documents or relevant institutional information pertaining to the Gouda wind-farm project, with specific reference to community trust and membership agreements, (b) financial and annual reports since its establishment up to 2020 and (c) records of community engagements and feedback sessions with the communities of (i) Gouda and (ii) Saron?

 5 29 May 2020 10010

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