Questions and Replies

Reply:

In response to questions 1(a) and 3:

Serious allegations of misconduct have been levelled against the board member, and I have been requested to consider exercising the powers afforded to me under section 9(1)(c) of the National Nuclear Regulator Act, Act no. 47 of 1999. The board member has been afforded an opportunity to fully respond to these allegations, which opportunity he has accepted. It would therefore be, at this time, premature and inappropriate to comment further on this matter.

In response to questions 1(b) and 2

The NNR has advised me that it is factually incorrect that the steam generator replacement approval was issued by the Technical Committee of the NNR board. Instead, the steam generator replacement approval is an operational decision concerning plant modification, which is not within the remit of the Technical Committee or the NNR board. The steam generator replacement approval was accordingly issued by the NNR Programme Manager responsible for Nuclear Power Plants on 18 January 2022, which was a day before the Technical Committee meeting.

The NNR has further advised me that the Technical Committee meeting of 19 January 2022 was properly constituted and quorate in accordance with the provisions of the National Nuclear Regulator Act, Act no. 47 of 1999.

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1. The settlement agreement reached between Government, Alexkor and the Richtersveld Community comprised of the following obligations:

• Transferral and restoration of portions of land by the State and Alexkor to the Richtersveld Community.
• The transfer of Alexkor’s land mining rights to Richtersveld Mining Company and the setting up of Alexkor RMC PSJV. The State through Alexkor would capitalise the Alexkor RMC PSJV with R200 million in order to restore mining operations.
• The transfer of Alexkor’s mariculture and agricultural assets to the Richtersveld Agricultural Holdings.
• A sum of R190 million to be paid as reparation to the Richtersveld Investment Holding Company (RIHC) over three years.
• R50 million development grant to be paid as a lump sum development grant to the RIHC for agriculture and mariculture.
• R45 million to be paid to the Richtersveld Property Holding Company (RHPC) as compensation for Alexkor’s occupation on transferred residential properties for ten years.
• The establishment of a township at Alexander Bay including the upgrade of the municipal infrastructure to be handed over to the Richtersveld municipality.

• Environmental rehabilitation of historical mining areas.

Only R200 million was provided to the Alexkor Richtersveld Mining Company Pooling and Sharing Joint Venture (PSJV) as recapitalization loan to resuscitate the diamond operations following the protracted legal proceedings.

R200 million is a loan and is repayable, to date the PSJV has made payment of R14 million.

2. The PSJV is an unincorporated entity and does not qualify as a national public entity or a national government business enterprise based on the definition of the two by the PFMA namely the PSJV is not juristic entity nor under the ownership control of the national executive.

Given that the PSJV is not a public entity that it could not be listed in either Schedule 2 or 3 of the PFMA. Section 3 of the PFMA provides that the PFMA applies to departments, public entities listed in Schedule 2 or 3, and constitutional institutions. The PSJV is none of these and the PFMA does not apply to the PSJV itself in its own name.

3. Despite the PJSV not being subjected to the PFMA by virtue of its arrangement, the department referred the matters of financial misconduct, corruption and mismanagement to the Special Investing Unit (SIU). On 10 December 2021, the President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the proclamation authorizing SIU to investigate affairs of Alexkor SOC which extend to the PSJV.

Reply:

The question has been referred to the Western Cape Department of Education and a response will be provided as soon as it is received.

Reply:

The office of the Minister did not receive the correspondence referred hereto. There is nothing to be brought to attention of the Minister as the correspondence is non-existent

Reply to question 165 approved

MINISTER OF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE, MP
Date: 01/03/2022

Reply:

 

The South African Police Service (SAPS) does not escort the money wagons of private security companies

Reply to question 278 recommended

GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 2022-02-28

MINISTEROF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE
Date: 01/03/2022

Reply:

1. There are no officials that received a combined salary increase of 88% in the past three years at the DLCA. The salary payments to the executives at the DLCA are provided below in line with the figures audited by AGSA and published in the audited Annual Performance Report of the Entity. All payments to staff at the DLCA are regulated by the Department of Public Service and Administration.

a) In 2018/2019 financial year, the top four executives earned a total of R3,404,000. The average was R 851,000 each. This average is distorted by the executive who worked only two months in the year and resigned. The average for the three executives excluding the resigned manager is 1,098,000.

b) In 2019/20 financial year, there were three (3) executives, who earned a total of
R3,104,000. This resulted to an average of R 1,035,000 each.

c) In 2020/21 financial year, there were three (3) executives, who earned a total of
R3,196,000. The average was R 1,065,000. The difference is due to the fact that the CFO did not act for 12 months.

Executives	2018/'19	2019/'20	2020/'21
Former CFO	178,000	Resigned	Resigned
Acting CFO	1,038,000	927,000	1,016,000
Senior Manager: Information Technology	109,000	Resigned	Resigned
Senior Manager: Production & Infrastructure	1,061,000	1,107,000	1,111,000
Senior Manager: Risk, Governance & Compliance	1,018,000	1,070,000	1,069,000
Total	3,404,000	3,104,000	3,196,000
Average	851,000	1,034,667	1,065,333

2. Refer to (1) above

3. Refer to (1) above

4. Refer to (1) above

5. Although the DLCA executives would appreciate the salary increase of 7.3%, all salaries paid to the DLCA executives are aligned to the DPSA directive of which in 2020-21 financial year no increases were paid to the executives/ senior managers.

Reply:

In terms of section 64E of the South African Police Service (SAPS) Act, 1995 (Act No 68 of 1995), the functions of a municipal police service are traffic policing, the policing of municipal by-laws and regulations, which are the responsibility of the relevant municipality and the prevention of crime. A municipal police service does not have the legislative mandate to conduct criminal investigations or to gather intelligence.

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GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 22-02-28

Reply to question 1 approved

MINISTER OF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE, MP
Date: 2022-02-2022
 

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Question 1: The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has a number of programmes and/or workshops that intend to upskill and improve the professional development of teachers nationwide. Together with provinces, DBE developed a three-year plan which highlights all national priority programmes. These programmes and implemented by all provinces and monitored quarterly by the Department.  The success of these programmes is monitored by subject advisors as they regularly visit schools. Tracking of learner participation and performance in provinces through the NSLA has an indirect way of assessing teacher programmes.  The DBE has further just developed impact assessment tools which will used as from 2022 to determine the impact Teacher Development programmes.

Question 2: The Department has 133 District Teacher Development Centres and 9 Provincial Teacher Development Institutes which are used as hubs for Continuing Professional Teacher Development. The DBE also collaborates with Teacher Unions to deliver DBE priority programmes. The Department further works with the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) to delivery the Primary School Reading Programme to General Education and Training (GET) teachers. A number of partners such as Sasol Foundation for Coding and Robotics,  Siyavula for Maths and Sciences, Cisco, SchoolNet and Vodacom for ICT programmes and Higher Education Institutions such Wits and University of Johannesburg in ICTs and Maths programmes and UNISA for Coding and Robotics.

Question 3: As indicated in Question1, the Department will share the 3- year plan for Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD). The Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) have a range of programmes covering a wide scope of subjects and grades. Some of the DBE initiated programmes are

* Support for Further Education and Training (FET) Accounting and Economics teachers

* Support for Senior Phase Mathematics and Natural Sciences

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(1)(a)(i)((ii), (b), (c),(d) and (2). The two sub-questions have been referred to the Limpopo Department of Education and the response will be forwarded as soon as information is received from the province. 

(3) The Minister does not have plans to conduct an oversight visit to Helen Franz Special School. However, the Minister will, after assessing the information provided by the Limpopo Department of Education, request the Member of Executive Council (MEC) and the Head of Department (HoD) to address any issues identified.

Reply:

1) It needs to be understood that the application of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI), Act 4 of 2013, in its current context, is new and there are no settled interpretations to some of the clauses in the Act.  The Department therefore, consulted extensively on this matter, specifically with regard to whether the examination numbers of candidates constitutes the personal information of the learner, before a decision could be made.  Besides the legal advice that was sought on this matter, the DBE also engaged the Information Regulator on this matter, both in writing and in meetings. 

The DBE was reminded by the Regulator that the Department could be penalised if found to be violating the prescripts of the POPI Act.  Therefore, the DBE adopted the cautious approach not to publish the results of the 2021 candidates in the media, and use this year to investigate this matter more thoroughly and extensively, to ensure a more considered and fully explored option is implemented for the Class of 2022.  This position was adopted in consideration that no candidate would be disadvantaged, given that the complete results of the candidates were available at the school, on the morning of the release under supervised conditions, and also the results were available on the DBE website.          

(2) There was certainly no embarrassment to the Department, given the fact that this matter was open to different legal interpretations.  We therefore, had no issue in complying with the order of the court.  In terms of future years, through the learner application forms, we will obtain from each Grade 12 learner and their parents, their individual consent with regard to the publication of their results in the media at the end of this year.     

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The question has been referred to the KZN Department of Education and a response will be provided as soon as it is received. 

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1. Already the steps to be taken have been submitted to the Presidency
   (a) things like training more police
   (b) bills- co-ordination of structures working on this environment
   (c) Improving relationship between communities and police especially at station level.
2. While the damage above is well acknowledged and regretted, the President has accepted the collective responsibility of Cabinet of which I am the member

Reply to question 410 approved

MINISTER OF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE, MP
Date: 01/03/2022

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No, currently there are no plans to build a police station, in Gastrow, Gordon’s Bay, as it does not form part of the Top Ten priorities of police stations to be constructed between 2022/2022 and 2025/2026, in the Western Cape Province.
 

1. Not applicable
2. (i)(ii)(iii) Not applicable

Reply to question 364 recommended

 

GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SREVICE
KJSITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 2022-02-28

MINISTER OF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE, MP
Date: 01-03-2022

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The DBE has collated the information from the nine Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) in terms of the vacancies at both the provincial head office level and at the district level, together with the DBE, and the table below provides the summary:

Province	Head Office	District
Eastern Cape	36	67
Free State	5	10
Gauteng	43	5
KwaZulu Natal	72	174
Limpopo	8	10
Mpumalanga	13	14
Northern Cape	33	12
North West	15	3
Western Cape	44	2
DBE	11
Total	280	297

 These vacancies exist across the following functions:

(a) Printing, packing, distribution  and storage of question papers.

(b) Monitoring of the writing.

(c) Marking 

(d) Data Capture

(e) Certification

(f) School Based Assessment

(g) System Administration

(h) General administrative responsibilities

PEDs have appointed staff on contract basis and utilised staff from other Units to assist with the examination functions, so as to ensure that the examination functions are not compromised. 

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(a) The table below shows the vacancy rate for teachers (Post Level 1) in each province in terms of the latest available information which is at the end of December 2021.

PROVINCE	All PL1 Teachers	Number of PL1 vacancies	Vacancy rate
EASTERN CAPE	44 054	4 777	10.8%
FREE STATE	17 172	121	0.7%
GAUTENG	54 863	87	0.2%
KWAZULU/NATAL	72 037	2 237	3.1%
LIMPOPO PROVINCE	40 828	3 219	7.9%
MPUMALANGA	26 850	74	0.3%
NORTHERN CAPE	7 236	23	0.3%
NORTH WEST	21 786	89	0.4%
WESTERN CAPE	25 712	40	0.2%
Grand Total	310 538	10 667	3.4%

Source: Persal, December 2021

(b) There is currently no national policy/norms to create posts for teacher assistants. 

(c)The table below shows the vacancy rate for principals (Post Level 1) in each province in terms of the latest available information which is at the end of December 2021.

PROVINCE	Number of Principal Post	Number of Principal vacancies	Vacancy rate
EASTERN CAPE	5 190	1 032	20%
FREE STATE	1 069	55	5%
GAUTENG	2 215	355	16%
KWAZULU/NATAL	5 882	1 457	25%
LIMPOPO PROVINCE	3 732	850	23%
MPUMALANGA	1 676	325	19%
NORTHERN CAPE	556	108	19%
NORTH WEST	1 487	271	18%
WESTERN CAPE	1 525	334	22%
Grand Total	23 332	4 787	21%

Source: PERSAL December 2021 

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A total number of 19 persons were arrested and three persons were prosecuted during the violent looting that occurred in KwaZulu-Natal, in July 2021, where schools were affected.

No person were arrested and prosecuted during the violent looting that occurred in Gauteng, in July 2021, where schools were affected.

Reply to question 336 recommended

GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 2022-02-28

MINISTER OF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE, MP
Date: 01/03/2022

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The required information is not readily available and the request must be forwarded to the Provincial Commissioners to verify the information . A request is made for an extension for 14 days in order to respond

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a) The contract with Muhlbauer ID Services was subsequently terminated on 26 July 2021. The SCM process was followed and the local suppliers (South African) were appointed to provide this service.

b) The total amount paid during the extension from 27 January 2021 to 26 July 2021 amounted to R 8 million which was within the variation threshold (15%/ R15 million) provided by the National Treasury.

Reply:

Maintenance activities are carried out continually on the N12 and there is a dedicated Routine Road Maintenance team working on the road. Most of the N12 road under SANRAL jurisdiction is in a good condition.

There is a sinkhole that developed on the N12 near Stilfontein in the North West province. The sinkhole on the road reserve has affected both SANRAL and municipal land. To address this, SANRAL appointed consulting engineers who completed the required design work. For construction work to commence, SANRAL requires that a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) be entered into between itself and the Matlosana Local Municipality. SANRAL is in constant communication with the Matlosana Local Municipality to finalise the MOA.

SANRAL has gone out on public tender for the appointment of a contractor to repair the sinkhole but cannot complete the award of the construction tender until the MOA is finalised.

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(a) (b) (c) 

The Department of Basic Education is not aware of the correspondence referred to. 

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The total cost for fuel, tyres, oil and repairs for the official vehicles from May 2019 to December 2021 is R 1 035 615.32.

The cost for E toll from May 2019 to October 2021 is R47 500.00.

The total cost for fuel, tyres, oil, repairs and toll fees is R1 083 115.32.

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Educators Recruitment Database is one of several sources of supply for the recruitment of educators. The Department provides the database as a service to districts and schools to access as one of the sources of supply to widen the pool of potential recruits to a national level. The Department does not actively manage the database as a placement service and therefore does not keep record of recruitment and actual placement from the database.

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1. (a) The Mabopane train station has been built prior to 1980, with the ownership falling under the South African Railway and Harbours Administration (SAR&H). During all the changes in administration, the land ownership has changed as set below.

The station comprises of two interlinked terminals: the railway terminal and the bus terminal. The railway terminal is located on land owned by PRASA and the bus terminal, at the time of construction, was locate on three land parcels:

(1) Portion 3 of Farm Rietgat No 611–JR

(2) Remainder of Farm Boekenhoutfontein No 236–JR

(3) Portion 266 of Farm Rietgat No 611–JR

Land parcel (1), was owned by the State and fell under the jurisdiction of Department of Land Affairs. The Department of Land Affairs agreed to donate this property to the South Africa Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC, currently PRASA). A recommendation to dispose the property was done in 2006 and was approved by the Minister of Land Affairs. National Treasury also granted approval to donate the land parcel to PRASA on 16 May 2007. The State Attorney was appointed to effect the transfer. To date, the transfer has not taken place, however, the State Attorney’s office is reopening the case and will complete the transaction.

In April 2000, Land parcel (2) and (3) were consolidated into a single property known as Farm Mabopane No 702–JR and registered via title deed T73872/2012 in favour of City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (City of Tshwane). According to the Department of Land Affairs, the City of Tshwane had agreed in principle to transfer the portion of land, on which the bus station is located, to PRASA.

In 2008, City of Tshwane transferred the remainder of Farm Mabopane No 702–JR, to Tutuni Investments 31 PTY LTD, No 2008/002145/07.

In 2012, Farm Mabopane No 702–JR, was subdivided to create portions 44 – 58. These newly created portions were registered in favour of various owners. On 28 September 2012, the remainder of the Farm reverted to the City of Tshwane via Title Deed T73872/2012.

Portion 52, which included the portion on which the bus terminal is constructed on, was surveyed via SG Diagram No 2683/2012 by Mr G Pettit (Professional Land Surveyor, PLS0913) and registered in favour of Tutuni Investments 31 PTY LTD, No 2008/002145/07 on 22 August 2012. Less than a month later, on 10 September 2012, the property was endorsed in favour of Permacorp Investments PTY LTD, No 2011/118721/07.

It needs to be noted that:

• The survey created a property cutting through a building, and
• Both transactions, registration of the remainder of Farm Mabopane No 702–JR and the portion 52 were handled by the same attorneys Maponya Incorporated.

(b) Portion 3 of Farm Rietgat No 611–JR (donation to PRASA) is with the State Attorney who was appointed to effect the transfer.

The ownership of a portion of Portion 52, on which the station is situated, is still in private ownership after having been transferred by the City of Tshwane in 2008, as stated above. The City of Tshwane committed that they would assist with resolving the issue around the land they sold but has not yet done so. The land must be urgently acquired, either through negotiations or expropriation.

2. (a), (b) and (c)

Project planning for the improvement and upgrade of Mabopane Station commenced during 2013/14. The zoning and land ownership issues was known by PRASA and the City of Tshwane. As the building was in existence and only to be upgraded, the construction team, relied on the provision of subsection 4 of the National Building Regulations and Building Standard Act 103 of 1997 which prescribes that:

“…in respect of any building to be erected by or on behalf of the State, such plans, specifications and certificate as may be prescribed by national building regulation, shall before the commencement of such erection be lodged with the local authority in question for its information and comment”.

Construction work therefore commenced on the basis of subsection 4 as set out above and no building plans were lodged for approval.

However, in 2018, PRASA lodged building plans for the Mabopane Concourse with the City of Tshwane to be considered and/or approved. Following submission of the plans, several meetings were held with the City of Tshwane’s Planning Department and the latter eventually communicated on 27 September 2019 that:

• the plans submitted to City of Tshwane’s Planning Department by PRASA cannot be supported,
• the Occupation Certificate cannot be issued due to the Station Precinct, stretching over a number of erven (Erf 611/43, Rietgat and the remaining extend of portion 3 and 52 of Rietgat) and
• the land parcels and rights is not supporting the current use.

3. There is currently a security contracts in place on the Mabopane – Pretoria corridor. Personnel has been deployed compromising of both PRASA internal security and those sourced through private security companies. To date, there has been no vandalism or crime incidents reported since the deployments.

4. PRASA has deployed 160 permanently employed security officers on the corridor. The private security contract expires in September 2022.

 

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1) The Department of Basic Education is committed to creating an enabling registration process to facilitate the registration of more ECD programmes. To this end, the Department of Basic Education has conducted the ECD Census to determine the number of unregistered ECD programmes, and to identify areas that may require additional registration support. The Department has also held a broad stakeholder engagement session on 30 November 2021 to better understand the challenges in the registration process. It is recognised that there is a multitude of challenges facing ECD programmes in the registration process, and the Department has been working alongside the Department of Social Development in the Second Children’s Amendment Bill to, among other things, address some of the challenges which arise from the legislation, regulations, norms and standards. Similarly, the Department is in the process of ensuring that an online registration capturing system is in place to streamline the back-end processes related to registration. Finally, the Department has also partnered with organisations in the sector on a research study to better understand the current barriers to registration emanating from the current norms and standards. This research will enable the Department to come up with a more developmentally appropriate approach to ECD registration.

2) The Government Handbook on Function Transfers clearly stipulates that the principle to be followed in a function shift is that resources follow function. That means that all resources (human, financial and capital) that are connected to a function, need to be transferred from the relinquishing department to the receiving department. As guided by the Department of Public Service & Administration and the National Treasury, the DBE and DSD have followed this principle closely. In the financial year following the function shift, the same resources that have been devoted to ECD by the DSD will be devoted to ECD in the DBE. That being said, the Department has had multiple meetings with the National Treasury to seek additional funding for ECD, where National Treasury has committed that they have included ECD as a top priority in subsequent years. The Department will be working very closely with the National Treasury in the 2022/23 financial year, to build a business case for additional funding. This business case will build on the evidence collected through the ECD Census, the Thrive by Five Index and the Public Expenditure and Institutional Review.

3) No additional budget was allocated to the ECD function shift during the 2021/22 financial year, given that the function shift is an administrative process. Projects aimed at future improvements to the ECD function were undertaken through partnerships with key donor organisations.

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(1) In terms of section 139 of the Firearms Control Act, 2000 (Act No. 60 of 2000), an amnesty may be declared by the Minister of police if the amnesty may result in the reduction of thr number of illegally possessed firearms and it is in the public interest to do so. A firearm amnesty is therefore the prerogative of the Minister of Police.

(2) Section 24, read with section 28, of the Firearms Control Act, does not provide for an expired licence to be renewed.


Reply to question 7 recommended


GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 22-02-28

Reply to question 7 approved

MINISTER OF POLICE
GENERAL BH CELE, MP
Date: 2022-02-2022
 

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(a) At the inception of Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) Initiative, Provincial Departments of Education identified schools dependent on basic pit toilets.

• A total of 3898 schools were identified at the time.
• Subsequent to that, some schools were closed as part of rationalisation and the sanitation at some schools were addressed under other programmes.
• At present, there are 2814 schoosl on the SAFE programme.
• Of these 2814 schools, the upgrading of sanitation has been completed at 1564 schools.
• The balance of the schools are scheduled for completion by the end of 2022/23..

(b)The Department of Basic Education is currently engaging with Provinces to establish whether such Provinces became aware of additional schools dependent on basic pit toilets.  Early indications are that there are some additional schools in Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo.

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The question has been referred to the Mpumalanga Department of Education and a response will be submitted as soon as it is received.

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DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION:

Name of institution	(i) (ii)	(i) (ii)	(c)
	(aa)	(bb)	(cc)	(dd)	(aa)	(bb)	(cc)	(dd)
					R’000	R’000	R’000	R’000
DSI	None	None	None	None	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Not applicable.
CSIR	148	34	21	140	3,203	386	62	73	84% of the invoices were settled during January 2022. 16% of the invoices will be paid by 28 February 2022 (unless there is an unresolved issue regarding delivery of the product/service).
TIA	None	None	None	None	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Not applicable.
SANSA	23	5	5	14	73	1,034	3	1,320	The invoices will be settled by 28 February 2022.
HSRC	6	4	4	0	65	40	22	0	The invoices will be settled as soon as outstanding queries are resolved.
ASSAf	None	None	None	None	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Not applicable.
NRF	14	33	11	2	348	115	18	5	The invoices will be settled by 28 February 2022.

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Based on information received from the Department in response to Parliamentary Question 798, details are accordingly provided as follows:

The attachment provides details pertaining to outstanding invoices that have not been paid within the requisite 30-day threshold. These invoices are currently disputed with the respective suppliers, as the Department is of the view that they are too high. The latter payments therefore, can only be settled once suppliers have resolved individual disputes duly supported by relevant evidence. All correspondence related to engagements with suppliers is retained by the Department for record purposes.

Based on information received from the Public Entities reporting to the Department *details are also accordingly provided in the attachment. At the time of providing the required information, responses were received from 24 of the 26 Entities.

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There are no new cars for Minister and her deputy purchased since 29 May 2019. However, below are details of their current cars:

(a) What is the (a) make:
    (i) Mrs. AM Motshekga, MP Minister
        1. BMW - Cape Town
        2. Mercedes Benz – Pretoria

    (ii) Dr MR Mhaule MP Deputy Minister
        1. BMW - Cape Town
        2. AUDI - Pretoria

(b) Model
    (i) Mrs. AM Motshekga, MP Minister
        1. 535i Sedan
        2. GLE 500
    (ii) Dr MR Mhaule MP Deputy Minister
        1. 530
        2. Q7 3.0 TDI Quatro

(c) Year of Manufacture
     (i) Mrs. AM Motshekga, MP Minister
        1. BMW - 2014
        2. Mercedes Benz - 2016
    (ii) Dr MR Mhaule MP Deputy Minister
        1. BMW - 2018
        2. AUDI - 2018

(d) Price
    (i) Mrs. AM Motshekga, MP Minister
        1. BMW - R769,022.76
        2. Mercedes Benz - R849,900.00
    (ii) Dr MR Mhaule MP Deputy Minister
        1. BMW - R833,488.41
        2. AUDI - R1,015,702.05

(e) Purchase Date of vehicle
    (i) Mrs. AM Motshekga, MP Minister
        1. BMW - 23 September 2014
        2. Mercedes Benz - 26 October 2016
    (ii) Dr MR Mhaule MP Deputy Minister
        1. BMW - 28 March 2018
        2. AUDI - 13 December 2018

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(a) 

(i) Department of Basic Education

(aa) 30 days,  - 5

(bb) 60 days, - 2

 (cc) 90 days - 0

 (dd) 120 days,- 5

 

 (b) what is the total amount outstanding in each case:

 

No.	Order No	Amount
1	OR-013041	R24 909,00
2	OR-013070	R15 715,90
3	OR-012896	R4 218,20
4	OR-012347	R5 043,90
5	OR-012537	R2 314,38
6	OR-012733	R3 769,65
7	OR-012996	R10 301,62
8	OR-012708	R12 105,27
9	OR-012668	R9 078,95
10	OR-012742	R18 157,91
11	OR-012725	R12 105,27
12	OR-012816	R583 239,30
13	OR-012925	R16 883,00

(c) by what date is it envisaged that the outstanding amounts will be settled?       

• 15 March 2022  

               

(ii) UMALUSI - See Annexure A Response received from UMALUSI 

 (aa) (bb) (cc) (dd), (b) and (c) 

 

SACE See Annexure B Response received from SACE 

  (aa) (bb) (cc) (dd), (b) and (c) 

Reply:

The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities procured officials vehicles for the Minister and the deputy minister as follow:

	Minister	Deputy Minister
(a)	Audi	Audi
(b)	Q5 2.0 TDI S TRONIC SPORT	Q5 2.0 TDI S TRONIC SPORT
(c)	2020	2020
(d)	R690 000.00	R690 000.00
(e)	06 January 2020	06 March 2020

Approved by Minister
Ms M Nkoana-Mashabane, MP
Date 28/02/2022

Reply:

The Inter-Ministerial committee has had regular engagements with the trucking industry, unions, interested organisations representing foreign drivers and senior officials in government. The resolutions taken so far are to increase inspections within the industry by the departments of Labour and Home Affairs, to work on policy changes within the respective departments legislation and to continue to build consensus and cohesion within the sector.

END

Reply:

1. SASCOC’s Constitution / Policy and position is very clear in relation to provision of equal incentives for any athlete who medals at multi-coded events. Discrimination of any form is not tolerated within the Organisation.

2. I as the Minister, I serve all South Africans from all walks of life, race, class or gender is not an issue to me and the political party I belong too.

SASCOC does not tolerate or practice a system of discrimination based on one or more grounds. This includes but not limited to race, gender, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language, or HIV and AIDS status. We also subscribe to the IOC Charter, the Constitution of SA and the SASCOC Constitution in this regard.