Question NW2643 to the Minister of Basic Education

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07 December 2016 - NW2643

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Van Der Walt, Ms D to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)Whether each time frame set for each target of her department’s Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative programme has been reached since it was launched in the 2011-12 financial year; if not, (a) why not and (b) how were the specified time frames amended in each case; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether any contractors working on the specified programme were blacklisted for nonperformance since the announcement by her deputy, Mr M E Surty, to this effect in the meeting of the Standing Committee on Appropriations on 20 February 2013; if not, why not; if so, what are the full relevant details; (3) (a) what is the (i) total expenditure on the programme and (ii) detailed breakdown of the expenditure (aa) in each financial year since the 2011-12 financial year and (bb) on each project in each province to date and (b) how was the programme funded to date; (4) whether her department will amend the programme’s (a) targets and/or (b) time frames again; if not, in each case, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details in each case; (5) whether she has put any measures in place to ensure that the programme’s targets are delivered timeously; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply:

1. The time frames have not been met in every case. ASIDI is a multi-year programme and the building of a school takes, on average 12 to 15 months. Prior to that is the process of procurement, which must follow laid down procedures, and design, planning and construction. A project cycle does not necessarily follow a financial year.

2. Implementing agents blacklist non performing contractors and send the list to Construction Industry Development Board.(CIBD).

3. The expenditure on the programme to date is detailed below:

Inappropriate Structures

       
     

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Eastern Cape

 

63 984 913

643 912 612

790 329 040

1 358 016 195

976 037 703

Free State

 

-

17 746 043

146 775 703

518 183 195

187 121 154

KwaZulu-Natal

 

-

-

1 000 000

13 994 772

7 033 233

Limpopo

   

-

-

32 188 714

89 036 857

12 415 992

Mpumalanga

 

-

-

32 188 714

89 036 857

18 139 438

Northwest

 

-

-

8 349 205

86 219 551

15 062 193

Northern Cape

 

-

 

3 960 685

15 751 841

6 439 904

Western Cape

 

 

 

533 019 000

396 697 000

262 049 000

     

63 984 913

661 658 655

1 547 811 061

2 566 936 268

1 484 298 617

               

Water & Sanitation

           
     

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Eastern Cape

 

7 843 987

35 431 692

265 153 466

140 788 186

98 471 455

Free State

 

1 232 657

10 760 350

3 355 713

831 166

-

KwaZulu-Natal

 

-

34 441 881

64 772 375

120 082 396

33 512 363

Limpopo

   

-

36 542 858

67 409 852

29 322 070

5 818 007

Mpumalanga

 

-

-

-

43 236 964

29 025 376

Northwest

 

-

-

-

17 378 852

-

Northern Cape

 

-

 

3 960 685

10 869 214

-

     

9 076 644

117 176 781

404 652 091

362 508 848

166 827 201

               

Electricity

             
     

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Eskom (All Provinces)

-

22 900 834

3 334 927

53 202 521

24 806 781

               

Total Capital Expenditure

73 061 557

801 736 270

1 955 798 079

2 982 647 637

1 675 932 598

               

TOTAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURE SINCE INCEPTION WITHOUT WC

 

7 489 176 141

               

4. The programme is amended in keeping with performance cycles and implementing agent capacity. Implementing Agents have agreed to bolster their internal capacities and are geared to complete the programme by the proposed new completion dates.

5.The ASIDI programme is now planned to be completed at the end of the 2017/18 financial year. 126 schools are at different phases of implementation and 216 schools are the subject of a completed rationalisation and mergers exercise. The DBE will now go in to a period of procurement, planning and design before construction can begin in earnest.

RESPONSE TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY QUESTION 2643

COMPILER:

MS J MODIPA

EXT: X 4272

DATE:

MR T KOJANA

DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL: SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

DATE:

MR HM MWELI

DIRECTOR–GENERAL

DATE:

QUESTION NA 2643 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED

MR ME SURTY, MP

DEPUTY MINISTER

DATE:

MRS AM MOTSHEKGA, MP

MINISTER

DATE:

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