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The Parliamentary question has been forward to the State Owned Enterprise and the Ministry of Public Enterprises awaits their urgent response. Further information will be conveyed to Parliament as soon as the response is received.

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(1)(a) All dams classified as dams with a safety risk by the Directorate: Dam Safety Regulation (i.e. Dam Safety Office) and are category II and III in terms of size must be subjected to a compulsory 5 yearly dam safety evaluation by an Approved Professional Person (APP).

(1)(b) The owner of a Category II or III dam must appoint an Approved Professional Person (APP) to conduct a dam safety evaluation at 5 years intervals. This regulatory provision is in terms of Section 118 and 119 of the National Water Act as well as Government Notice R 139 of 24 February 2012 (i.e. Dam Safety Regulations).

(2) Refer to Annexure A for the inspection dates, number of dams that passed or failed the inspection in Gauteng.

(3)(a) Refer to Annexure B for the APP recommendations.

(3)(b) Refer to Annexure C for the letters of acceptance or rejection sent to the City of Ekurhuleni after receipt of the Dam Safety Evaluation report from the APP.

(3)(c) Refer to Annexure C.

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a) The root causes of the current water crisis in Makana Local Municipality (LM) are due to aged infrastructure, increased demand and some recent operational deficiencies and the current drought conditions.

The latter has led to electrical failure and therefore disruption of plant operations has affected the town area, but has since been fixed. The Eastern Cape Provincial Office is working very hard to ensure plant operations are restored to the maximum design capacity but it is partly functional and currently produces 50% of its capacity. The work is to be completed by end of March 2019.

b) The following interventions are in place to deal with the crisis:

• The Department has embarked on various Water Conservation and Demand Management Strategies which include rationing of water, dealing with major leaks, tankering to high laying areas and bottle water distribution in partnership with the “Gift of the Givers” a known Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). In addition, alternative sources are being explored by drilling boreholes which are to be linked to the current systems across Makana LM including Riebeeck East and Alicedale.

• The linkages of both the East and West water supply systems will enable access to reliable controlled/restricted supply to cater for the Makhanda communities during the drought period and will be fully functional by end of March 2019.

• In dealing with the increased demands, the Department has appointed Amatola Water Board to double the current treatment capacity of one of the treatment works from 10 ML/d to 20ML/d to meet current and future demands until 2030. Phase 1 of 4 phases is to be completed in March 2019. This phase will allow pumping of treated water from the eastern side to the western side which is currently at critical storage levels.

• Furthermore, the Department has advised the Municipality to reprioritise its Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) to deal with the replacement of major components in the distribution system .This is due to the fact that the current funding trends and the revenue base of the municipality is inadequate to effectively address the current aged infrastructure and/or asset management in general. The Amatola Water Board is also in partnership with the Department in providing operational support to oversee and guide plant operators.

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According to the information received from Eskom

(1) Yes, there has been three (3) incidents where negligible amounts of radioactivity were, or were assumed to have been released to the environment through an unmonitored pathway since 1 January 2014; May 24, October 2015 and November 2015

Releases to the environment are closely monitored and have to respect regulatory limits.Any release that is unmonitored is taken seriously and would be treated as a leak or spillage of radioactive waste.

(1)  (a) (b)

• All these incidents were reported to the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) in the quarterly Radio Waste and Effluent Report;
• The normal radio activity levels of what was released were of such levels that there was no impact to staff, members of the public or the environment.

(2)     Assessments have conducted that the maximum amounts of radioactivity that could have been released were well below any regulatory limit and did not require a response or notification of the public.

(3)     Each incident is reportable to the regulator and is thoroughly reviewed by Koeberg to identify the causes, and to determine the appropriate corrective actions.

The following actions were taken and fully implemented in order to prevent human error from happening again when these activities are performed:

• Malfunctioning equipment was repaired as priority.  The instruction sequence for changing over between Reactor Building ventilation when connected to the plant ventilation system was improved.  Cautions and limitations were added for changing over between modes while performing Reactor Building ventilation system filter efficiency tests during outages before or after reloading fuel into the reactor core.
• A plant modification to route the water to the Nuclear Island Vents and Drains System in the event of a tank overflow was done in the next Refuelling Shutdown in 2015.
• The controlling procedure to include a description on the removal and refitting of caps and blanks (outage and non-outage periods) has been updated on any system that is being drained or vented.

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According to the Head of the National Prosecutions Service, although the National Prosecuting Authority does not keep data according to specific crime typologies due to lack of electronic systems, it does record information related to corruption in respect to persons who have been convicted or acquitted. Unlike the normal calculation of conviction rates based on cases, the conviction rate is measured on the number of persons. 

Therefore, the 2018 convictions, acquittals and percentages are indicated in the table below:

Period	Persons Convicted	Persons Acquitted	Percentage of Persons Convicted
January	10	0	100.0%
February	21	3	87.5%
March	28	3	90.3%
April	19	1	95.0%
May	30	0	100.0%
June	39	1	97.5%
July	25	0	100.0%
August	35	1	97.2%
September	36	0	100.0%
October	34	0	100.0%
November	40	0	100.0%
December	15	1	93.8%
Grand Total	332	10	97.1%

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The Parliamentary question has been forward to the State Owned Enterprise and the Ministry of Public Enterprises awaits their urgent response. Further information will be conveyed to Parliament as soon as the response is received.

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I am informed by the National Prosecuting Authority that the regions only started to track and report on what is called gang-related offences during the 2018/19 financial year. It is important to note that there is no such crime or charge in our law. Therefore, statistics in this regard are not automatically tracked and recorded in the system.

Gang related offences are mostly prevalent in the Western and Eastern Cape Divisions.

During this financial year (April 2018 – February 2019), these two regions indicated that 87 verdict cases were finalised, obtaining 65 convictions. This therefore represents a conviction rate of 74.7%.  

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(1) (a) (i) 14

(ii) 75

(b) Ambulances in Northern Cape is not bound by district borders and may be deployed anywhere within the Province when needed. However, the average coverage radius of ambulances is in the range of 100 to 150km depending on location of the town.

(2)

MUNICIPALITY	TOWN	NUMBER OF AMBULANCES
(i) Nama Khoi,	Springbok Komaggas Vioolsdrift Steinkopf	1 1 0 1
(ii) Richtersveld	Port Nolloth Alexanderbay Kuboes	1 0 0
(iii) Khai-ma	Pofadder Pella	1 0
(iv) Kamiesberg	Garies Hondeklipbaai	1 0
(v) Hantam	Calvinia Brandvlei Nieuwoudtville Loeriesfontein	2 1 1 1
(vi) Karoo Hoogland	Williston Fraserburg Sutherland	1 1 1

(3) (a) 19 ambulances, 6 in Namaqualand and 13 for Northern Cape

(b) All vehicles have COF and Roadworthy certificates.

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1. (a) Mr (details provided) provided his services for free to the Nugent Commission of Inquiry and was therefore not paid for the work that he performed for the duration of the Commission.

(b) worked up to 30 November 2018 without remuneration.

2. (a) Advocate was paid a total amount of R1 869 300.00 at a rate of R18 000.00 per day for the work of the Commission and for 104 days.

(b) Advocate last day of remunerated work paid was 30 October 2018, and must still submit an invoice for work performed in November 2018.

3. (a) has not been remunerated to date, however he has submitted invoices in January 2019 for the amount of R842 292.00

(ii) has performed remunerated worked until 11 December 2018.

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Auditing process on the amount and number of employees currently on suspension since 1 April 2018 has not been completed

 

 

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(a) The number of:

(i) buildings: 2

(aa) own: 0

(bb) rent: 2

(ii) properties: 0

(iii) facilities: 0

(b) The value and purpose of each:

(i) owned: n/a

(ii) rented property:

• Maponya Mall: Office Accomodation
• Batho Pele House Office Accomodation

(iii) Value of the properties unknown

(c) (i) for how long has each property been rented,

• Maponya Mall: February 2010
• Batho Pele House December 2015

(ii) from whom is each property rented:

• Maponya Mall: Department of Public Works
• Batho Pele House Department of Public Works

(iii) what is the monthly rental fee for each property?

• Maponya Mall: R510 889.88
• Batho Pele House R3 227 378.00

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The Parliamentary question has been forward to the State Owned Enterprise and the Ministry of Public Enterprises awaits their urgent response. Further information will be conveyed to Parliament as soon as the response is received.

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(1) (a) (i) (aa) R1030

(bb) R1030

(cc) R845

(ii) Fees for nursing staff are regulated by South African Nursing Council and not Health Professions Council of South Africa. The fees for nurses are as follow:

• Registered Nurses and Midwives: R640
• Enrolled Nurses and Midwives: R380
• Enrolled Nursing Auxiliaries: R270

(b) Fees are determined by the respective regulatory bodies annually after due consideration of annual budgeting processes. Income received for these regulatory bodies is solely from member fees.

2. (a) Okiep is a fixed Primary Health Care clinic which is currently operational. The clinic did not burn. It operates from 7:30 till 16:00 from Monday to Friday and provides a one-day-a-week satellite Health Care Services to Rooiwinkel and Bulletrap.

(b) The PHC facility that burnt is Steinkop Fixed Clinic and with operational hours from 07:30 to 16:00 from Monday to Friday. No afterhours services are available due to shortage of staff. The services have been moved to a temporary accommodation while waiting for the clinic to be fixed.

3. Springbok Hospital is surrounded by three clinics that reduces patient load on the hospital. These are Springbok Clinic within Springbok, Bergsig Clinic approximately 2km away and Matjieskloof Clinic about 5km away from the hospital.

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(1) (a) The contract of the security service provider, which was appointed to secure the property at No. 18 Market Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province, came to an end on the 30th April 2018.

(b) The contract was not renewed after expiry due to budgetary constraints.

(2) The estimated cost to restore the property as per the condition assessment conducted in May 2017 is R1 562 560.00

(3) The Department of Public Works has reviewed its letting out process to ensure that a free, open and fair process is undertaken during the letting out of surplus State-owned properties. In February 2019, the Department issued an interim circular all its regional offices, which outlines the process to be followed in the letting out of State-owned properties. The Department plans to advertise all surplus State-owned properties, including the property in question, No. 18 Market Street, Stellenbosch, through a Request for Proposals process. All offers submitted prior to this process must be resubmitted.

(4) The property is a surplus State-owned property and thus should be leased out.

(5) All surplus, vacant and unused State-owned properties will be advertised for letting out. The Department aims to begin the letting out process by April 2019.

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(1) (a) Dispute from HOSPERSA was regarding unpaid overtime and one-person crews being used.

(b) There was a limited provision of service resulting in prolonged response times.

(c) The overtime issue has been settled, however the issues regarding the staff shortages has not been resolved.

(2) (a) 5

(b) 29

(3)

 

MUNICIPALITY	NUMBER OF MINIBUSES	LOCATION
(i) Nama Khoi,	2	Springbok Steinkopf
(ii) Richtersveld	1	Port Nolloth
(iii) Khai-ma	0	-
(iv) Kamiesberg	1	Garies
(v) Hantam	1	Calvinia
(vi) Karoo Hoogland	1	Fraserburg

(4)

YEAR	NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS	REASON
2016	5	Wild animals
2017	9	Wild animals and human error/fatigue
2018	3	Wild animals

(5) 120

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1. I have been informed by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development that the Offices of the State Attorneys do not categorise cases that are dealt with and their cost thereof, and do not keep such information separately. Additionally, the South African Police Service could be the relevant Department to provide the Honourable Member with the requested information.
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The Hounorable Member is requested to refer the question to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs who will be in better position to respond to the awarding contracts for the transport and supply of water by road tanker to consumers by the Uthukela District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal.

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I am advised by the Department that this question was asked to the Former Minister as question 1821 of 2018. I refer the Honorable Member to the same answer.

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Refer to the table below for Main Account Allocated Budget for Drought Relief:

		(a)	(b)	(c)
Financial Year	Province	Adjusted Budget R’000	YTD Expenditure R’000	Expenditure Items
2015/16	Kwa-Zulu Natal	50 500	50 500	Transfers & Subsidies: Water Services Operating Subsidy (WSOS) 5B grant reprioritised for Drought Relief Intervention
		106 270	111 836	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures
Total	156 770	162 336
2016/17	Eastern Cape	5 883	5 725	Goods & Services: Contractors – Water tankering
	Kwa-Zulu Natal	290 700	301 168	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structure
	Free State	21 100	20 363	Goods & Services: Contractors – Water tankering
	North West	24 512	24 512	Goods & Services: Contractors – Water tankering
Total	342 195	351 768
2017/18	Eastern Cape	17 548	17 548	Goods & Services: Contractors, Water Tanks and Travel & Subsistence – Water tankering
	Kwa-Zulu Natal	10 432	10 432	Goods & Services: Contractors, Water Tanks and Travel & Subsistence – Water tankering
	Free State	11 498	11 498	Goods & Services: Contractors, Water Tanks and Travel & Subsistence – Water tankering
	North West	545	545	Goods & Services: Contractors and Travel & Subsistence – Water tankering
	Mpumalanga	1 093	10 93	Goods & Services: Contractors and Water Tanks– Water tankering
Total	41 116	41 116
2018/19	Eastern Cape	647 214	49 021	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures, Transfers & Subsidies
	Kwa-Zulu Natal	122 366	-	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures
	Limpopo	97 475	-	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures
	Mpumalanga	56 800	56 800	Buildings and other fixed structures, Transfers & Subsidies
	Northern Cape	9 788	-	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures
	North West	309 649	10 000	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures, Transfers & Subsidies
	Western Cape	58 919	-	Payments for capital assets: Buildings and other fixed structures
Total	1 302 211	115 821
Grand Total	1 815 292	671 041

Refer to the table below for Water Trading Entity (WTE) Allocated Budget for Drought Relief:

		(a)	(b)	(c)
Financial Year	Province	Adjusted Budget R’000	YTD Expenditure R’000	Expenditure Items
2016	Kwa-Zulu Natal	306 278	302 910	Boreholes, Water Tanker Rental and Programme Management
2017	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2 961	2 597	Boreholes, Water Tanker Rental and Programme Management
2018	Kwa-Zulu Natal	Nil or no budget was allocated
Total	309 239	305 507

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(a)(i) A total of four (4) tender briefings were held in 2018 by the Department.

(a)(ii) A total of 187 tender briefing were held in 2018 by the entities reporting to me.

(b) All four (4) tender briefings held by the Department were compulsory and a total of 186 tender briefings were compulsory and only one (1) briefing was non-compulsory for the entities reporting to me.

 

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The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963 read in conjunction with applicable local legislation, in South Africa's case the Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act, 2001 (Act 37 of 2001), are the definitive legal instruments that regulate the standing of Diplomats and Consular Agents globally.

Article 41.1 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 and Article 55.1 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963 state as follows: “Without prejudice to their privileges and immunities, it is the duty of all persons enjoying such privileges and immunities to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State. They also have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State.”

In accordance with the stipulations of the Act, as well as the Vienna Conventions, having force of law in the Republic, no diplomatic immunity shall exempt a diplomatic or consular agent from the consequences of the commission of any crime in the Republic of South Africa.

I wish to point out that the case referred to by the Honourable Member does not belong in the category of persons who enjoy diplomatic immunity. Further enquiries into this matter should be referred to the Minister of Police and/or the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development.

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The Department does not own any buildings, properties or facilities. Since 2009, the department has been accommodated in the dti Campus together with 3 of its 4 entities.

The dti campus is an ideal location which hosts 3 of the Economic Cluster Government Ministers, departments and their entities in close proximity making it an ideal economic campus.

The value of the rental is R1 006 539 per month and the purpose is for office accommodation, parking and storage.

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The National Prosecuting Authority has informed me that 5 419 sexual offences cases were finalized with a verdict during 2018/19 financial, i.e. during the period April 2018 – January 2019. Convictions were obtained in 4 034 of these cases, representing a conviction rate of 74.4%.

A break down in respect of each province for the 2017/18 financial year and current 2018/19 financial year (up to the end of January 2019) is provided in the table below:

Sexual Offences (SO) conviction rates per province for the past two (2) financial years

Province	Financial Year		SO Convicted Cases	SO Acquitted Cases	Total SO Finalised	Sum of SO Conviction Rate
Eastern Cape	2017/2018		798	214	1 012	78,9%
	2018/2019		742	192	934	79,4%
Free State	2017/2018		697	238	935	74,5%
	2018/2019		504	161	665	75,8%
Gauteng	2017/2018		725	301	1 026	70,7%
	2018/2019		531	184	715	74,3%
KZN	2017/2018		899	393	1 292	69,6%
	2018/2019		660	262	922	71,6%
Limpopo	2017/2018		298	162	460	64,8%
	2018/2019		232	148	380	61,1%
Mpumalanga	2017/2018		367	123	490	74,9%
	2018/2019		309	72	381	81,1%
North West	2017/2018		327	126	453	72,2%
	2018/2019		263	87	350	75,1%
Northern Cape	2017/2018		171	70	241	71,0%
	2018/2019		181	70	251	72,1%
Western Cape	2017/2018		722	248	970	74,4%
	2018/2019		612	209	821	74,5%

NB: Definition of Sexual Offences

Any case involving offences committed in terms of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 32 of 2007, and may include common law rape or indecent assault. Statistics reported in this response are in terms of this definition.

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In terms of provisions of section 6 (4) and (5) of Independent Police Investigative Directorate Act 1 of 2011, the Minister May designate another person to act as Executive Director when the Executive Director is unable to perform his/her functions or when the vacancy exist. In appointing the Acting Executive Director the Minister has taken into account his seniority in the IPID, his qualifications and experience.

Below is the profile of Mr Victor Senna.

 

1. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
 

QUALIFICATIONS	MAJOR SUBJECTS
Senior Certificate	Accounting, Economics, Business Economics
B.com	Accounting, Auditing, Economics, Business Management

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The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available in the Department. However, the Department has written a letter to the Provincial Department responsible for Local Government in Gauteng to obtain the relevant information from Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. The information will be submitted to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available.

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The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available in the Department. However, the Department has written a letter to the Provincial Department responsible for Local Government in Gauteng to obtain the relevant information from Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. The information will be submitted to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available

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	(aaa) 2016/17	(bbb) 2017/18	(bb) Since 1 April 2018
(i) Minister	(a) None (b) None (c) None (d) None	None	None
And or the Former Minister	(a) BMW (b) X5 (c) R917 619.99 (d)September 2016	(a) Audi (b) Q7 (c)R938547.18 (d) September 2016	None	None
(ii) Deputy Minister	(a)VOLVO (b) XC90 (c) R1194650 (d)December 2017	None	None

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(1) (a)(b)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)

The Department of Cooperative Governance did not enter into any contracts with Bosasa known as African Global Operations, in each of the past 10 financial years.

(2) Not applicable.

SOUTH AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION (SALGA)

(1) (a)(b)(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)

(1)(a) Not Applicable

(1)(b) SALGA has not contracted the services of Bosasa (known as African Global Operations) in each of the past 10 financial years

(1)(b)(i) Not applicable

(1)(b)(ii) Not applicable

(1)(b)(iii) Not applicable

(1)(b)(iv) Not applicable

(1)(b)(v) Not applicable

(2) Not applicable

MUNICIPAL DEMARCATION BOARD (MDB)

1. MDB has not entered into any contract with Bosasa (known as African Global Operations) in each of the past 10 financial years.
2. None.

SOUTH AFRICAN CITITES NETWORK (SACN)

1. The South African Cities Network has not contracted services of Bosasa (known as African Global Operations) in the last 10 financial years.

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