Question NW2835 to the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation

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11 January 2022 - NW2835

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King, Ms C to ask the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation

(1) With reference to the 2020-21 annual report of his department that indicated that R45,7 million was directed towards cleaning materials for community education and training (CET) colleges, (a) what (i) service providers were used, (ii) were the unit costs for each item, (iii) were the total quantities purchased and (iv) was the total payment of cleaning products for each CET and (b) how were the cleaning materials distributed to local training CET centres; (2) (a) what CET programmes were funded from the R8 975 000 that was made available by the Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) to higher health for CET programmes and (b) from which budgetary line item of higher health were the funds taken?

Reply:

(1)(a)(i)-(iv)

CET

College

(i) Name of Service Provider

(ii) Total Cost

Allocated

(iii) Total Quantities

(iv) Total Payment

Eastern Cape

  • Eggo Specialised Services; and
  • Reddy Bio Clean T/A Milisa Incorporated

R6 943 000

30 Main CLCs

and 239 Satellite Centres

R295 015

Free State

  • Red Alert; Budget Soap;
  • Esethombe Holdings;
  • LeSoul Pojects;
  • Menwana Enterprise (Pty) Ltd;
  • Bohalale Batlae Trading;
  • CIB2(Pty) Ltd;
  • Eden Island;
  • Lejo M General Trading;
  • Nkobi cleaning and Catering;
  • Matsediso Cleaning services; and
  • Africa Pest Prevention.

R4 748 000

181 Main CLCs and Satellite Centres

R516 151

Gauteng

Abanqobe Cleaning Services

R8 015 000

9 CLCs and 45 Satellite Centres

R0

KwaZulu- Natal

K Mathole Investment

R7 658 000

11 Main CLCs

and 40 Satellite Centres

R153 999

Limpopo

Not yet appointed

R6 254 000

248 Main CLCs and Satellite Centres

R0

Mpumalanga

  • Heavy Ideas (Pty) Ltd;
  • Mawela Zikode ( Pty) Ltd;
  • Mhlabanyathi (Pty) Ltd;
  • Vetata (Pty) Ltd;
  • Lerato Lwandle ( Pty) Ltd;
  • Amandla Okhozi (Pty) Ltd;
  • Two Much Woman Civils;
  • Sakhumuzi 78 trading; and
  • Madvulane (Pty) Ltd

R4 544 000

64 Main CLCs and Satellite Centres

R1 572

962

Northern Cape

To be confirmed.

R2 221 000

87 Main CLCs and Satellite Centres

R0

CET

College

(i) Name of Service Provider

(ii) Total Cost

Allocated

(iii) Total Quantities

(iv) Total Payment

North West

Bid Consultancy (Pty) Ltd

R3 472 000

11 Main CLCs

and 125 satellite centres

R868 000

Western Cape

Bidvest Prestige

R1 863 000

15 main CLCs

and 58 Satellite Centres

R0

Total

 

R45 718

000

 

R3 406

127

  1. There is no distribution of cleaning material taking place. Each college appointed a service provider to clean the centres.
  1. (a) Higher Health submitted a proposal to HWSETA to request funding towards building a comprehensive health and wellness intervention for CET Colleges. HWSETA considered the proposal and approved to limit their funding to COVID-19 interventions. The initial proposal requested funding for the following:
    • COVID-19 capacity development and establishment of COVID-19 Screening volunteers at CET colleges;
    • Capacity development on Gender-Based Violence;
    • Mental Health;
    • Sexual and Reproductive Health including contraception and Substance Abuse;
    • Coordination of Health & Wellness programmes in the CET colleges;
    • Establishment of Campus Health & Wellness programmes at CET college;
    • Establishment of a peer to peer health promotion, awareness, and prevention programme in CET colleges;
    • Social behavioural change campaign; and
    • Enable a safe teaching & learning environment in the face of COVID-19

HWSETA considered COVID-19 to be a priority area and approved funding of R 8 099 000.00 to be utilised as follows:

    • Stipends for a period of 18 months for 9 college coordinators and 3 600 volunteers to set up screening stations and conduct screening at R 5 940 000.00
    • Provide personal protection equipment (PPE) for frontline staff, regular staff, student volunteers, students, among others who are involved in the daily screening programme for COVID-19 at R500 000.00
    • Improve the monitoring and evaluation system, with real-time reporting to assist towards early decision making, early detection, identifying trends and leading into process evaluations for programme implementation efficacy at R180 000.00
    • Provision of computers, tablets, data and airtime costs for project staff members and screeners at R993 000.00
    • Travel costs for Coordinators at R486 000.00

The allocation will be transferred in 3 tranches upon achievement of set project milestones between Higher Health and HWSETA.

    1. The budgetary line item of Higher Health from which the funds were taken, is line item

CET Programme Implementation which covers the following broad line item expenditure:

      • Salaries for HIGHER HEALTH Centre Coordinators
      • Stipends for Student Volunteers
      • PPE Material for student volunteers who man screening stations
      • Information, Education and Communication Material
      • Setting up of screening stations and maintenance of the HealthCheck app
      • ICT and equipment costs
      • Travel costs