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

Which municipalities in the province received

(a) clean audit reports,

(b) qualified audit reports,

(c) disclaimers and

(d) adverse audit reports over the past five financial years?

16 21 April 2023 14539

Whether any complaints lodged against different departments of the City of Cape Town relating to the price manipulation of tenders have been brought to his attention; if so, what are the relevant details?

18 21 April 2023 14538

In cases where learners reside 15 km away from the school allocated by the Department and where there are not enough learners who require Department-sponsored learner transport and where parents cannot afford private learner transport:

What mechanisms are available from his Department to assist such learners?

20 21 April 2023 14537

With regard to his Department’s COVID-19-related expenditure, in particular for the fumigation of schools:

(a) What is his Department’s total expenditure breakdown on the (i) fumigation and (ii) sanitisation of schools and the Department’s offices from 2019 to 2023 to date and (b) what are the details of the service providers to whom contracts for fumigation and sanitisation were awarded?

22 9 May 2023 14536

What is his Department’s detailed expenditure breakdown on the

(i) construction and

(ii) running of the hospitals of hope in the province and

(b) what are the details of the companies to whom contracts to do work at these hospitals were awarded?

23 21 April 2023 14535

What is the number of (a) attacks that have taken place at

(i) construction sites and

(ii) government project sites and

(b) persons who have been

(i) murdered and

(ii) wounded in these attacks in

(aa) 2014,

(bb) 2015,

(cc) 2016,

(dd) 2017,

(ee) 2018,

(ff) 2019,

(gg) 2020,

(hh) 2021 and

(ii) 2022?

24 21 April 2023 14534

With regard to the search-and-seizure operation executed by the Commercial Crimes Unit of the police at the office of Mr Malusi Booi, Member of the Mayoral Committee for Human Settlement of the City of Cape Town, in March 2023:

(a)   What are the details of the police investigation against

(i) Mr Malusi Booi and

(ii) the Human Settlements Department of the City of Cape Town and

(b) what are the latest updates on this investigation?

 

25 21 April 2023 14533

What are the details of all the companies to whom human settlements development contracts have been awarded by (a) the provincial government and (b) each municipality in the province in

(i) 2019, (ii) 2020,

(iii) 2021, (iv) 2022 and

(v) 2023 to date?

26 21 April 2023 14532

(a)(i) What is the number of learners from Northern Paarl who are enrolled at the Weltevrede High School in Wellington and

(ii) what are the details of the transport arrangements that are made for them,

(b) what (i) are the details of the challenges that have led to the learners remaining at home without learner transport and

(ii) intervention measures has his Department put in place,

(c) what is the number of school days that have been lost by learners from Northern Paarl who are enrolled at the Weltevrede High School due to learner transport challenges and

(d)(i) how much is budgeted for learner transport for learners from Northern Paarl to Wellington and

(ii) what is the number of routes available and (iii) how many buses are available for these routes?

14 27 March 2023 14531

Whether his Department has a plan to deal with the increasing criminal activities of extortionists who are terrorising businesses on the Cape Flats; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

4 6 April 2023 14510

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