Premier
With regard to his announcement during SOPA 2022 that his Cabinet has adopted a GBV Implementation Plan and that key interventions have been identified and agreed upon to be prioritised by all 13 heads of department:
- (a) What are the details of the GBV Implementation Plan, (b) what are the key interventions that have been identified, (c) what are the specific roles that will be played by each department, (d) what accountability measures will be put in place to ensure that Ministers are held accountable for any failure to implement these interventions fully and (e)(i) what will be the total budget for this GBV Intervention Plan and (ii) where will it come from;
- (a) what is the total breakdown of the expenditure of his government in the fight against GBV and femicide in the province in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018, (vi) 2019, (vii) 2020, (viii) 2021 and (ix) 2022 to date and (b) what is the breakdown of expenditure per municipality?
The Department of Social Development informed me that:
- [a],[b],[c] and [d] All of the requested details are set out in the attached copy of the Western Cape GBV NSP Implementation Plan.
[e] [i] Total estimate for the current financial year and next financial year:
20/21 R 151 648 995 – this includes the start-up cost of the 6 new GBV shelters
21/22 R 151 212 695
This consists of the verifiable budgets related to Department of Social Development [DSD] and the Deptartment of Health for their work with victim empowerment, the work done at Thuthuzela centres and health care support services to victims of sexual assault and femicide. The GBV work done by other departments is funded and accounted for in the larger operational costs of the respective Department within the compensation of employees and goods and services economic classifications. For example, the Department of Community Safety’s Court Watching Briefs for GBV cases are provided for within their personnel budgets for the program running the Watching Briefs program, and support to women on farms in the Department of Agriculture is rendered within the department’s farm worker support program. Parliamentary questions on the details of each of these programs and the budgets involved would need to be directed to each of the relevant MECs.
[ii] The budget will come from the Provincial Treasury.
[2][a] [i] to [viii] DSD is the only department that has an allocated budget for GBV since transfer payments are paid to a third party to render some of the services. All other Departments budgets form part of their usual goods and services such as Department of Health that manages the Thuthuzela centres as part of their budgets for the hospital where the Thuthuzela centres are located.
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DSD and DOH expenditure on GBV and Femicide |
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Financial Year |
Transfer Budget Actual Expenditure |
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2014/2015 |
R 41 539 079 |
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2015/2016 |
R 48 037 618 |
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2016/2017 |
R 86 655 764 |
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2017/2018 |
R 103 037 710 |
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2018/2019 |
R 119 995 241 |
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2019/2020 |
R 131 851 307 |
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2020/2021 |
R 151 648 995 |
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2021/2022 |
R 151 212 695 |
[b]
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Budget per Region – unfortunately budget per municipal area is not available |
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Financial Year |
Region |
Budget allocated |
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2020/2021 |
Eden Karoo |
R 8 361 702 |
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Cape Winelands Overberg |
R 9 307 258 |
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West Coast |
R 2 735 028 |
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Metro East |
R 2 980 938 |
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Metro South |
R 21 090 431 |
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Metro North |
R 8 814 531 |
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Total |
Cross Regions |
R 98 359 107 |
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2021/2022 |
Eden Karoo |
R 9 392 399 |
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Cape Winelands Overberg |
R 10 937 141 |
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West Coast |
R 7 355 033 |
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Metro East |
R 5 750 366 |
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Metro South |
R 25 339 800 |
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Metro North |
R 9 211 500 |
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Total |
Across Regions |
R 83 226 456 |
