Question NW1350 to the Minister of Home Affairs
17 May 2022 - NW1350
Shivambu, Mr F to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
With reference to the statement he made during a television interview on the eNCA Power to Truth programme with Dr Onkgopotse J J Tabane on 6 April 2022, wherein he said that when he took Mr Pravin Gordhan in his former capacity as Minister of Finance to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, they were told that 60% of the women who were giving birth at the specified hospital were not South Africans, (a) on what date did he visit the specified hospital and (b) what is the detailed breakdown of the countries from which the specified 60% of non-South Africans came who were giving birth at the hospital?
Reply:
a) I had visited Steve Biko Academic Hospital while Minister of Health, with the then Minister of Finance Mr Pravin Gordhan on 11 September 2012.
b) We did not ask for such details because it was not necessary to do so.
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