Question NW1078 to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

Steyn, Ms A to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

What (a) total number of applications for Covid-19 relief funding have been received in each province to date, (b) number of the specified applications have been (i) approved and (ii) rejected in each case in each province and (c) was the Rand value of each (i) approved and (ii) rejected application in each province; (2) whether her department only allocates Covid-19 funding relief to qualifying persons according to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, Act 53 of 2003, as amended; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) on what statutory grounds is her department’s Covid-19 funding relief only allocated to persons according to the specified Act, (b) what number of the applications for relief funding were approved in this regard and (c) what form of Covid-19 funding relief will be made available to other persons in the agriculture sector?