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(a) No

(b) No

(c) No

(d) No

There is no legal provision for bonuses as part of the conditions of service of Commissioners.

(i) Not applicable

(ii) Not applicable

(iii) Not applicable

(iv) Not applicable

Reply:

The requested information must be drawn from the Crime Administration/Investigation Case Docket Management System. An extension, until 31 May 2018, is hereby requested to obtain and validate the information, before the submission thereof.
 

Reply to question 923 recommend

GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 2018-04-10


Reply to question 923 approved/not approved


MINISTER OF POLICE
BH CELE, MP
Date; 2018-05-10

Reply:

No. The Commission has not discussed the matter and therefore has no extent resolution to procure the referenced opinion.

Reply:

(1) (a) The nature of the Settlement Agreement is to address the outstanding matters connected with the Correctional Officials Occupational Specific Dispensation (OSD) 2nd Phase experience recognition for the production salary levels 03 to 08 that emanated from General Public Services Bargaining Council (GPSSBC) Resolution 2 of 2009.

(b) The collective agreement allows for a multi-year implementation of back pay amounts. The Department has already paid 17% of the back pay amount owed to fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety (14290) qualifying correctional officials, and 6% back amounts to twelve thousand three hundred and sixty five (12365) qualifying correctional officials respectively. With regard to the six thousand three hundred and six (6306) qualifying correctional officials who terminated services, the Department has initiated an audit to determine the debt owed to them in relation to the OSD Departmental Bargaining Chamber settlement agreement. To date a total of three thousand two hundred and seven cases (3207) have been audited and submitted for payment. The agreed 4% payments which are due in the 2018/2019 financial year for both serving and terminated officials are scheduled for payment during the 2nd quarter starting July 2018 of the current financial year.

(2) (a):

(i) The 17% owed to qualify officials plus 6% of the staggered payment have been paid.

(ii) 4% payments are scheduled to be made to serving officials during the 2nd quarter of the current financial year (2018/2019)

27% (17% + 6%+ 4%) payments are scheduled to be made to ex officials during the 2nd quarter of the current financial year (2018/2019)

(2) (b):

(i) The 17% payments were made during June 2017 and October 2017.

6% payments were made during February 2018.

4% to serving officials as well as 27% to ex-officials are scheduled to be paid during the 2nd quarter of the current financial year (2018/2019).

(ii) R57, 463 574.00 already paid to serving officials.

An estimated amount of R71 million is to be paid to both serving and ex-officials (4% for serving officials and 27% to ex-officials back log).

(3) (a) as agreed in the Settlement Agreement it is expected to conclude this matter not later than 31st March 2020.

(b) Utilization of a task team to oversee payments centrally on a continuous basis and assist/ guide regions with all relevant administrative processes to conclude the remaining 3% payments in the 2019/2020 financial year.

Reply:

a) Total amount budgeted for and Expenditure for the past three financial years

(aa) Financial year	(i) Budgeted Amount	(ii) Expenditure
2015/2016	R 31 420 000.00	R 28 937 000.00
2016/2017	R 29 118 000.00	R 29 026 000.00
2017/2018	R 28 605 000.00	R 27 040 000.00

(b) As at 1 April 2017 to date.

(b)

(i) Remuneration	(ii) Salary level	(iii) Job title	(iv) Qualification
R1 299 501.00	15	Special Advisor	Diploma in Project Management.
R1,214,475.00	14	Chief of Staff	B-Tech in Public Management
R 948 174.00	13	Senior Parliamentary and Cabinet Support Officer	Senior Certificate
R 898,743.00	13	Private Secretary	Grade 9
R 864,903.00	12	Assistant Private Secretary( Seconded from DPE)	Diploma: Secretarial/Public Management
R 917,970.00	12	Parliamentary and Cabinet Support Officer	Senior Certificate
R 657,558.00	11	Deputy Director Administration	Bachelor of Administration degree
R 657 558,00	11	Administrative Secretary	Bachelor of Administration degree
R 289,929.00	8	Senior Administrative Officer	Bachelor of Administration degree
R 226,611.00	7	Senior Administrative Officer	Grade 11
R 230 013.00	7	Receptionist/Registry	Senior Certificate
R 216 216.00	6	Driver/ Messenger	Grade 7
R 189 102.00	6	Driver /Messenger	Senior Certificate
R 230 013.00	6	Registry Clerk	Senior Certificate
R 152 862.00	5	Food Services Aid	Grade 11

(v) The job descriptions are accordingly attached. (Annexure A)

Reply:

The department and entities responded as follows:

(i0 Department of Home Affairs

(a) Three (3)

(b)(i) See schedule attached as Annexure A.

(b)(ii) – (iii) See schedule attached as Annexure A.

(ii) Government Printing Works

(a) Fifteen (15)

(b)(i) See schedule attached as Annexure B.

(b)(ii) – (iii) See schedule attached as Annexure B.

(b) Electoral Commission

(i) Eighty (80)

(i) See schedule attached as Annexure C.

(b)(ii) – (iii) See schedule attached as Annexure C.

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Reply:

Mr Atul Gupta approached a Department of Home Affairs Front Office and applied for passports. He was subsequently issued with two active passports as per his applications just like any other South African citizen on request and consideration in line with the legislative stipulation in Chapter 2, Section 2 (5) of the South African Passports Act Regulations 4 of 1994, which states that under certain circumstances a second South African passport may be issued, notwithstanding the fact that the holder thereof is in possession of another valid South African passport and regulation 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis thereto; wherein regulation 3 refers to a normal application for a South African passport.

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a) What is the total number of consulting firms or companies that are currently contracted by

	No of consulting firms or companies
(i) Department of Tourism	2
(ii) South African Tourism	9

(b) Details of the consulting firms or companies for Department of Tourism

(i)Name of each consultant	(ii) Details of service provided	(iii)(aa) Start date of contract	(iii)(bb) Time period	(iii)(cc) Monetary value(Rands)	(iii)(dd) Name and position of each individual who signed off on each contract
Mott MacDonald Africa (Pty) Ltd (originally contracted as Phambili Merz (Pty) Ltd)	Technical advisory services on solar photovoltaic projects in terms of preparing technical specifications, evaluation of technical proposals, monitoring project implementation and sign-off of implementation milestones.	28 September 2015	Until 31 May 2018	R6 750 140.78	For the Department of Tourism: Mr Victor Tharage, Director-General For Mott MacDonald Africa (Pty) Ltd) (originally contracted as Phambili Merz (Pty) Ltd): Mr Denis Jason Rowan
The Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC)	Provision of technical and advisory services to assist with the review of the Social Responsibility Implementation Programme (SRI) projects and the processes to complete these projects as well as updating the SRI processes and guideline documents.	01 October 2016	Until October 2018	R14 451 280.00	Mr Victor Tharage Director General of the Department of Tourism Mr Andrew Donaldson Acting Head, GTAC

(b)Details of the consulting firms or companies for SA Tourism

(i)Name of each consultant	(ii) Details of service provided	(iii)(aa) Start date of contract	(iii)(bb) Time period	(iii)(cc) Monetary value(Rands)	(iii)(dd) Name and position of each individual who signed off on each contract
Hospitality Professionals South Africa Pty	Grading Assessors Training	31-May-17	31-May-18	R 376 200.00	Darryl Erasmus - Chief Quality Assurance Officer
Grant Thornton	Audit for Lilizela Awards	19 June 2017	01 June 2018	R 228 000.00	Neil Nagooroo -GM Exhibition and Strategic Events
Letsema Consulting	Business planning facilitation	05 March 2018	30 April 2018	R 493 374 .00	Bashni Muthanya - Chief Strategy Officer
The Advertising Production Cost Consultancy Pty	Cost Consultancy on advertising and production products	01 March 2017	30 September 2018	R 100 320.00	Tom Bouwer - Chief Financial Officer
Ernst & Young	On-call Tax advisory for California business assessment	01 February 2018	01 Feb-2019	USD 12 475.00	Bangu Masisi - Country Manager: North America
Integreon Management Solutions Pty	Compilation of 5 in 5 strategy document	22 May 2017	31 August 2017	R551 200.00	Wavela Mthobeli - Head of Analytics
Norton Rose	Trademark infringement: Entrepreneur of the Year Award (ETEYA)	Ongoing	Ongoing	R1 000 000.00	Marc Rabie- Head of Legal
Bowmans	Labour Related matter	Ongoing	Ongoing	R1 550 000.00	Marc Rabie- Head of Legal
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr	Labour Related Matter	Ongoing	Ongoing	R4 500 000.00	Marc Rabie-Head of Legal

Reply:

1 (a) No

On 7 October 2016, the Department instituted a rescission application under Case No: 38429/13, as it contends that the court order herein was erroneously sought and erroneously granted. The Cuban parents’ contention that their child was denied Cuban citizenship is incorrect and the Department will show this, with the aid of the Cuban Embassy.

The State Attorney: Pretoria has been having difficulties in translating the Cuban Amended Immigration Laws and their Citizenship Rules, which are pivotal for the Department’s case. Once this is done, the Department will then file its Replying Affidavit (to the parents’ Answering Affidavit, which is in reply to the Department’s rescission application). Thereafter, the matter will be set down for hearing at court.

1(b) NO

The Department is working with the Department of Public Works to get the process of identifying a suitable place/office for the re-opening of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office. The Department has engaged DPW Western Cape Regional Office mid December 2017 advising them of the judgment. Following internal processes, the Department wrote to DPW Director – General, on 22 January 2018 submitting the initial needs assessment for office accommodation.

Subsequently, the DPW responded asking for corrections and adjustments. The Department submitted the final needs assessment to the DPW during February 2018 and their Head Office has issued a procurement instruction to their Regional Office in Cape Town.

The Department of Public Works provided a project execution plan on 6 April 2018 whereby the estimated time of occupation is 1 October 2018, which will allow the Department to start operating as soon as possible after the handover.

Further to the above, the office continues to provide existing clients with services at the current office accommodation.

Operational Budget

 

The Department has determined that the centre will be able to function within the ambits of the current base line allocation.

 

Personnel

The Cape Town RRO is currently operating at 37.5% of the approved establishment. The funding and filing of key posts is being prioritized. Considering the reduction in volumes the Department is of the opinion that the funding and filling of posts should not delay the opening of the office once suitable accommodation has been secured.

IT Equipment

5 fully equipped RRO computers have been procured and installed at the current CTRRO to provide capacity for the capturing of newcomers. The replacement of other computer equipment will only be done once occupation of permanent accommodation has been taken.

2(a) and (b) The Institution of the Department’s rescission application has suspended the operation of the initial court order.

2 (c) The Department will re-open the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office as soon as DPW has finalised all the necessary in the allocation of suitable office accommodation.

2(d) The Constitutional Court Order was received by the Department on 14 December 2018. The Department wrote to Scalabrini in January 2018 requesting an extension to file its report and the Department has already submitted two reports to the Scalabrini Centre detailing the steps taken in compliance with Constitutional Court.

3 The Cuban child was granted a permanent residence permit on 22 April 2016.

Reply:

Chapter 2, Section 2 (5) of the South African Passports Act Regulations 4 of 1994, states that under certain circumstances a second South African passport may be issued, notwithstanding the fact that the holder thereof is in possession of another valid South African passport and regulation 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis thereto; wherein regulation 3 refers to a normal application for a South African passport.

Mr Rajesh Tony Gupta requested two active passports by virtue of the fact that he was verified at the time that he was indeed a frequent traveller with two already full passports, hence applied for two Maxi passports. It has to be highlighted that under normal circumstances all urgent applications are processed through Head Office however it does occur that some passport applications run through the system without human intervention and are printed within a day, and this occurred in this instance.

These two passports were applied for on 03 November 2017 and printed on 03 November 2017, and they were dispatched to the relevant office of application on 06 November 2017 with subsequent collection that only took place on 09 November 2017.

 

Reply:

Verified information which was received from the South African Police Service (SAPS) Criminal Record Centre, revealed that 27 members of Division: Crime Intelligence have a criminal record. 20 members' criminal records relate to contraventions of the Road Traffic Act, whilst seven, are of a serious nature.

The newly appointed Divisional Commissioner of the Division: Crime Intelligence, Lieutenant General PA Jacobs, is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the seven serious cases. Progress in this regard will be reported in due course.
 

Reply to question 657 recommended
GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date: 2018-05-01

Reply to question 657 approved/not approved

MINISTER OF POLICE
BH CELE, MP
Date; 2018-05-10

Reply:

The question was referred to the Electoral Commission which responded as follows:

1. In order to ameliorate long queues and waiting times at voting stations on voting day, the Electoral Commission has introduced the concept of voting centres since 2009. Voting centres are operated on the basis of establishing multiple sub-stations within a voting station. In 2016, this enabled the average number of 2296 and 1934 voters in Gauteng and the Western Cape voting stations respectively, to decrease to 1613 and 1474 respectively. We currently have 2599 voting centres, which in turn provides for 6263 substations. The table below takes into account the number of sub-stations in the calculation of the average number of voters per voting stations. In the context of limited venues consisting of requisite amenities and high population density, the concept of the voting centres is the preferred method of operation.

PROVINCE	LGE 2016 Reg Voters	LGE 2016 Voting Districts	LGE 2016 Average reg voters per voting district	LGE 2016 voting centres	Voting Centre sub-stations	LGE 2016 Average reg voters per voting station/sub-station
EC	3,337,532	4,699	710	103	215	694
FS	1,470,999	1,531	961	225	472	827
GT	6,234,822	2,716	2,296	610	1760	1613
KZN	5,411,237	4,792	1,129	764	1757	935
LIM	2,556,128	3,111	822	150	317	780
MPL	1,919,216	1,744	1,100	184	469	946
NW	1,715,460	1,723	996	171	359	898
NC	621,310	710	875	20	48	842
WC	3,066,649	1,586	1,934	372	866	1474
National	26,333,353	22,612	1,165	2,599	6263	1002

2. Northern Cape Province has the lowest population size with sparsely distributed human settlements. This influences the availability of facilities serving as voting stations. On the hand, Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces are comprised of former homeland areas which characterized by village type settlements and which are supported by some type of public infrastructure such as schools, traditional authorities offices which can be used as voting stations. This leads to a lower average number of voters per voting station.

3. The different spatial characteristics of the country, different population densities and distributions, inward migration into urban centres and the uneven spread of public amenities serving as voting stations makes this proposition unrealistic. There are on-going efforts to address these differences including voting centres which enhance voter access to electoral process without destabilising the voters roll which has a geographic basis in its compilation.

Reply:

(i) (a) The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has contracted one

(1) consulting firm.

(b) (i) The name of the consulting firm is Enterprises University of Pretoria (Pty) Ltd.

(ii) The appointment of a suitably qualified service provider to conduct research

on the impact of the Child Justice Act, 2008 (Act 75 of 2008) since its implementation commencing on 01 April 2010 until 31 March 2017 for a period of nine (9) months.

(iii)(aa) 1 February 2018

(bb) Nine (9) months

(cc) R2 757 888.00

(dd) Ms L Surjbally, Director: Supply Chain Management signed off the contract on behalf of the Department, whereas Emar de Wet signed on

behalf of the service provider.

(ii) The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Legal Aid South Africa and Special Investigating Unit has informed me as follows:

a) The NPA has no consulting firms contracted.

b) Legal Aid South Africa is contracted to 27 consultants during the 2017/18 financial year with a monetary value of R24,38 million. This includes short-term insurance brokerage services and premiums of R19 million. All consultants were approved by the Accounting Officer.

SCHEDULE OF CONSULTANTS ENGAGED DURING 2017/2018 FINANCIAL YEAR
NAME OF AUTHORISER:	Vidhu Vedalankar	POSITION OF AUTHORISER:	CEO
Period	No.	Name of Consultant	Description of Service	Contract term	Contract Amount
Quarter 1	1	Dumani Architects	Architectural Services: Space planning and refurbishment - Middelburg Office	Once off - April 2017	R 27,930.00
	2	North West University	Training - Paralegal Community Empowerment	Once off - May 2017	R 120,000.00
	3	Informed Services	Training - Sexual Offences	Once off - May 2017	R 258,660.00
	4	Forensic Ballistic Services	Training - Ballistics	Once off - May 2017	R 152,250.00
	5	LEAD	Training - High Court Litigation	Once off - May 2017	R 248,178.00
	6	IFIS (Independent Fingerprint Information Systems (Pty) Ltd	Training - Fingerprints	Once off - May 2017	R 145,008.00
	7	Adv David Themba Skosana Adv Makhosi Gwala	Legal Opinion for Board	Once off - June 2017	R 307,914.00
Quarter 2	8	Syspro (Pty) Ltd	Training - Syspro Technical	Once off - August 2017	R 20,292.00
	9	Dumani Architects	Space Planning Design for Krugersdorp Office	Once off - August 2017	R 39,900.00
	10	Tsebo Real Asset Management & Risk Solutions	Valuation of property - premises for Krugersdorp Office	Once off - August 2017	R 4,389.00
	11	Life Line	Employee Assistance Programme Intervention 2017/2018	Once off - August 2017	R 298,228.00
	12	Execuprime Holdings	Education, Training & Development Interventions - National Office	Once off - August 2017	R 270,000.00
	13	Epi-use Africa (Pty) Ltd	SAP Support Services	2017/2018	R 259,749.00
				2018/2019	R 460,868.94
				2019/2020	R 488,521.04
				2020/2021	R 208,467.10
	14	DNA Project	Training - DNA Evidence	Once off - September 2017	R 192,500.00
	15	Civil Drafting (Pty) Ltd	Space Planning Design for Witbank Office	Once off - September 2017	R 94,620.00
Quarter 3	16	The Skills Clinic (Pty) Ltd	Training - Time Management	Once off - October 2017	R 4,389.00
	17	TAT i-Chain (Pty) Ltd	Fixed Assets Scanner Support	Once off - October 2017	R 141,382.80
	18	Corporate Healthy	Health Risk Assessment	Once off - October 2017	R 271,130.00
	19	Qubique Consulting	Quantity Surveyors - bill of materials for Benoni Office	Once off - November 2017	R 139,620.00
	20	Forctis Valuers (Pty) Ltd	Valuation of property - Port Elizabeth Office	Once off - December 2017	R 3,500.00
Quarter 4	21	Marsh (Pty) Ltd	Insurance Brokerage Services (includes premiums)	2018/2019	R 6,424,127.00
				2019/2020	R 6,424,127.00
				2020/2021	R 6,424,127.00
	22	Forensic Ballistic Services	Training - Ballistic Evidence	March 2018	R 70,740.00
	23	DNA Project	Training - DNA Evidence	March 2018	R 211,750.00
	24	IFIS (Independent Fingerprint Information Systems (Pty) Ltd	Training - Fingerprints	March 2018	R 72,504.00
	25	North West University Potchefstroom Campus Law Clinic	Training - Paralegal Community Empowerment	March 2018	R 60,000.00
	26	Informed Services	Training - Sexual Offences	March 2018	R 136,041.00
	27	Plus 94	National Internal Omnibus Engagement Survey	March 2018	R 400,000.00
Full Year		Total			R 24,380,912.88

1. The table below provides information submitted by the Special Investigating Unit:

(a)	(a)(i)	(ii)	(iii)(aa)		(bb)	(cc)	(dd)	(dd)
Item No.	Consulting firms/companies Name	Description of Services	Start Date	End Date	Duration	Amount	SIU’s Signatory (as per SIU Delegation of Authority, Contract, or Appointment Letter)	Consultant’s Signatory
1	Deloitte Consulting Service	Review of Organizational Structure	01 June 2017	31 May 2018	7 months (extended by 4 months)	R9 132 314.72	Adv. L.J Mothibi Head of the Unit (Contract)	Jaco van Niekerk
2	Nexia-SAB&T	Internal Audit Service	01 April 2018	31 March 2020	24 months	R1 634 512.16	Adv. L.J Mothibi Head of the Unit (Contract)	Naeem Hassim
3	Charles Consulting	Quantity Surveyor	02 March 2018	31 June 2018	4 months	R191 520.00	Ms. Sylvia Mkhize Acting SCM Manager (Appointment letter)	Serica Sanchia Charles
5	Strategix IT Solutions	Navision consulting service	01 April 2018	28 March 2021	36 months	R391 000.00	Mr. Andre Gernandt Chief Financial Officer (Appointment letter)	Conrad Gildenhuys
6	Sage VIP	Consultancy service for VIP payroll system	15 December 2017	15 July 2018	7 months	R251 955.96	Adv. L.J Mothibi Head of the Unit (Appointment letter)	Kavir Kissun

Reply:

The matter is still under investigation. IPID is still awaiting the provision of documents by SAPS.

 

Approved by

MR. RJ McBride

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: IPID
DATE: 2018-05-04


Reply to question 385 Approved I Not Approved


MINISTER OF POLICE
BH CELE, MP
Date; 2018-05-10

Reply:

The South African Police Service (SAPS), provides training to all members who are involved in the investigation of crimes. There are no specific training programmes for crimes that occur at schools. However, there are learning programmes which focus on the investigation of specific crimes. These programmes are as follows:

~ Basic Crime Investigative Practice.

~ Basic Drug Investigation Course.

~ Sexual Offences Course for investigating officers.

~ Resolving of Crime Skills Programme.

~ Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Course.

In addition, the following learning programmes target Forensic Social Workers, who deal with offences involving children:

~ Statement taking from a child.

~ Introducing the child witness.

~ Preparing children for court.

~ Sexual Offender in Child Abuse cases.

~ Forensic Social Work Report Writing.

~ Sexual Offences Legislation.


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GENERAL NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
KJ SITOLE (SOEG)
Date:09-04-2018
 

Reply to question 886 approved/not approved

MINISTER OF POLICE
BH CELE, MP
Date: 10/05/2018

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RESPONSE FOR QUESTION 1119/NW1212E (1)

The Department supports cooperatives within the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector through various financial and non-financial means. In the past five years the following number of cooperatives has been supported:

• 518 cooperatives were supported with training using the Farmtogether Agricultural Cooperatives Training programme to improve internal operational efficiencies, productivity and enhance competitiveness
• 334 cooperatives were supported with Agribusiness planning skills to deepen their understanding of business planning within the Agribusiness context and to be able to draft their own business plans.
• 251 cooperatives were assisted to conduct diagnostic assessments on their businesses in order to identify business strengths and weaknesses and recommend alternative solutions to drive efficiencies within the cooperative. The enterprises are exposed to conducting self-assessment, in the process are assisted to develop action plans to address identified weakness areas while maximising on their strengths
• 81 cooperatives were assisted to develop action plans to address identified areas of weaknesses.
• 194 cooperatives were supported financially with grants through the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme-CASP and Ilima/Letsema as well as with production inputs loans through the Micro Agricultural Finance Institutions of South Africa (MAFISA).

In the process, a total of 7145 smallholder farmers have been assisted in the past five years by the department.

A comprehensive list of cooperatives with the variables asked for is attached as Annexure 1.

RESPONSE FOR QUESTION 1119/NW1212E (2)

Annual assessments of cooperatives performed by the department indicate that generally, the level of viability and sustainability of cooperatives in the sector is very low. Some of the contributing factors include heavy reliance on grant funding and inability to access financial support from mainstream financial institutions. Access to sustainable markets has been found to be a challenge as well. On a regular basis DAFF perform diagnostic assessments on cooperatives assist them to upscale, improve productivity, efficiency and competitiveness.

Reply:

1 (a) and (b)

There is currently no universally agreed figure on the total economic revenue generated by the predator breeding industry in South Africa. However, the recent International Journal of biodiversity and conservation as appearing on the academic journal of the Northwest University by Peet Van der Merwe et al, 2017, purported that the lion breeders alone contribute R500 million annually to South African economy in each of the past three financial years: According to information supplied by Provincial Conservation Management Authorities, It is estimated that an amount of R110 729 285.00 was generated from hunting activities during 2016 and R180 967 456.00 during 2015 respectively. The information for 2017 hunting activities will only be available after the end of June 2018. Please note that at the National level we do not have statistics. Such stats are compiled by Provincial nature conservation authorities on an annual basis.

Information on tourism activities, including the sale of predators to other hunting facilities; bone sales; and tax revenue contributed by the predator breeding industry to the National Revenue Fund in each of the specified financial years, is not available to the Department of Environemntal Affairs at the moment, but may be available to the Provincial Coservation Managemnt Authorities.

(2) The Department does not have, at its disposal, data on the number of job opportunities (a) created and (b) sustained by the predator breeding industry in each of the specified financial years; however, the same study by Van der Merwe et al, 2017, indicated that a total of 1 162 jobs are sustained in the economy due to lion breeding activities alone. Cadman (2009) indicated that 900 people are employed in the lion breeding industry alone.

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Reply:

(a) The detailed breakdown of amounts budgeted for South Africa’s is appended as Annexure A.

The total budget for South Africa’s foreign missions are follows:

(i) for 2018/19 is R 3,257 billion;

(ii) for 2019/20 is R 3,259 billion; and

(iii) for 2020/21 is R3,272 billion.

(b) (i) Total number of South Africans employed at the foreign missions is 721.

(ii) (aa) Breakdown of South Africans employed at foreign missions is enclosed as Annexure B

(ii) (bb) Breakdown of foreign staff employed at foreign missions is 1,754 (Breakdown is enclosed as Annexure C)

ANNEXURE A

AFRICA MISSIONS
Mission:	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
Addis Ababa	65,448,452	65,965,802	66,886,122
Brazzaville	21,743,514	22,076,436	22,628,394
Libreville	18,030,950	18,099,324	17,739,617
Malabo	16,295,156	16,162,067	16,162,067
N'Djamena	11,659,682	11,681,474	11,723,676
Sao Tome	7,963,321	7,996,080	8,134,959
Yaounde	18,643,719	18,693,001	18,290,684
Antananarivo	16,013,058	16,571,664	17,125,717
Asmara	13,493,665	13,556,122	13,713,500
Bujumbura	18,789,212	18,545,654	18,573,654
Juba	19,759,796	19,422,928	19,423,460
Kampala	20,399,875	21,269,837	21,331,354
Khartoum	18,394,560	18,431,140	18,464,086
Kigali	16,834,812	17,117,843	17,168,976
Moroni	10,050,827	10,289,888	10,367,426
Nairobi	29,866,933	30,378,707	30,917,736
Port Louis	18,428,686	18,363,842	18,254,815
Algiers	24,156,322	23,678,220	23,685,259
Cairo	19,649,700	19,068,382	19,141,789
Nouakchott	12,921,658	13,125,182	13,226,634
Rabat	9,936,120	9,976,742	10,027,056
Tunis	12,238,968	12,166,252	12,222,784
Dar Es Salaam	19,538,796	19,579,519	19,624,576
Gaborone	22,009,402	21,163,185	21,163,185
Harare	32,003,734	31,567,060	31,709,510
Kinshasa	35,703,922	35,489,293	33,838,934
Lilongwe	15,686,079	15,716,289	15,815,431
Luanda	76,090,371	76,684,286	76,894,365
Lubumbashi	14,758,221	15,007,421	15,007,421
Lusaka	18,315,188	16,947,388	18,308,188
Maputo	28,514,973	27,979,260	27,539,872
Maseru	11,378,650	11,439,087	11,565,846
Mbabane	11,216,408	11,211,519	11,211,519
Windhoek	10,512,153	10,624,542	10,751,893
Abidjan	20,960,709	20,818,184	21,722,002
Abuja	39,357,926	38,529,758	40,621,483
Accra	30,815,609	32,044,291	33,385,958
Bamako	16,469,662	16,500,445	16,642,298
Bissau	12,939,151	13,001,979	13,081,528
Conakry	17,000,201	16,907,559	16,910,019
Cotonou	13,406,293	13,410,862	13,489,362
Dakar	21,850,296	22,512,558	21,415,679
Lagos	32,175,224	32,094,584	32,094,584
Monrovia	14,439,253	14,529,036	14,548,691
Niamey	8,363,871	8,420,146	8,449,981
Ouagadougou	16,959,722	16,297,151	16,438,398
Total	961,184,800	961,111,991	967,440,489

Asia and Middle East missions
Mission:	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
Abu Dhabi	10,841,048	10,937,138	10,926,401
Amman	16,296,200	16,526,036	16,400,047
Astana	16,223,809	15,502,289	16,486,196
Bang Kok	21,722,911	21,477,142	22,382,827
Beijing	70,873,281	72,134,337	73,409,771
Canberra	32,834,685	32,946,689	32,552,631
Colombo	14,574,294	14,805,824	14,491,697
Doha	18,241,443	18,296,702	18,441,120
Hanoi	21,441,804	21,461,444	21,461,444
Hong Kong	19,861,315	19,904,108	19,401,059
Islamabad	17,685,020	17,759,382	16,354,220
Jakarta	25,113,274	25,098,678	25,307,632
Jeddah	8,596,278	8,410,929	8,423,117
Kuala Lumpur	9,171,004	9,163,864	9,095,417
Kuwait City	16,738,531	16,024,258	16,106,856
Manila	17,211,704	18,126,989	18,775,756
Dubai	15,031,246	15,163,604	15,117,480
Mumbai	21,241,119	21,306,402	21,358,905
Muscat	17,720,696	17,761,954	18,614,050
New Dehli	28,765,631	28,913,256	29,090,577
Ramallah	21,210,091	20,667,694	18,629,520
Riyadh	14,678,876	14,599,218	14,765,230
Seoul	38,388,294	37,925,104	38,811,654
Shanghai	29,607,788	29,282,114	29,730,301
Singapore	36,826,439	36,432,296	36,568,988
Suva	8,696,661	9,027,530	8,937,993
Tapei	13,899,355	14,311,657	13,287,098
Tehran	24,406,123	24,414,237	24,661,973
Tel Aviv	30,659,693	30,291,010	30,388,706
Tokyo	45,634,239	45,199,627	45,497,875
Wellington	16,246,007	16,499,829	16,485,321
Damascus	18,125,383	18,012,894	18,028,904
Total	718,564,241	718,384,234	719,990,766

Europe missions
Mission:	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
Ankara	29,058,786	29,312,357	29,498,489
Athens	21,710,559	21,574,788	21,198,982
Berlin	61,104,978	61,009,095	61,248,122
Berne	45,579,539	45,015,139	44,369,023
Bucharest	14,969,620	15,009,985	15,331,694
Budapest	16,669,430	16,670,121	17,061,170
Brussels	68,540,721	67,570,508	67,653,372
Copenhagen	14,743,170	14,829,168	14,825,395
Dublin	27,318,940	27,512,364	27,531,518
Geneva	114,708,407	114,796,880	115,895,328
Helsinki	25,294,802	25,290,702	25,696,630
Holy See	10,898,846	10,877,415	10,980,863
Kiev	14,738,735	14,777,168	16,690,035
Lisbon	21,165,272	20,949,858	20,050,229
London	102,301,285	103,957,485	104,270,348
Madrid	23,551,180	23,494,660	23,475,820
Milan	22,108,003	21,921,498	21,914,796
Moscow and Minsk	63,171,863	63,411,486	63,411,486
Munich	26,947,137	26,922,139	27,032,527
Oslo	23,988,339	23,958,868	24,526,650
Paris	67,745,121	70,787,764	71,052,597
Prague	14,874,059	14,921,690	14,956,510
Rome	40,726,682	40,922,084	40,873,087
Sofia	13,937,650	13,937,650	13,937,650
Stockholm	16,303,498	16,420,111	16,413,421
The Hague	37,529,032	38,081,701	37,733,595
Vienna	65,345,645	65,413,328	65,567,078
Warsaw	1,218,973	1,214,082	1,204,621
Total	1,006,250,274	1,010,560,094	1,014,401,035

AMERICA MISSIONS
Mission:	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21
Brasilia	43,233,297	41,845,389	42,740,377
Buenos Aires	19,096,453	19,013,144	19,144,761
Caracas	26,624,604	26,676,590	26,719,159
Chicago	32,287,611	32,930,398	33,272,584
Havana	23,524,447	23,620,348	22,996,769
Kingston	21,645,055	20,940,663	20,751,758
Lima	17,615,757	17,730,366	17,860,147
Los Angels	32,569,433	32,563,017	32,368,172
Mexico City	23,086,238	23,322,908	23,627,744
New York (CG)	80,715,627	81,610,227	81,920,663
New York (UN)	67,547,621	67,335,045	67,559,087
Ottawa	21,671,829	20,659,346	18,471,775
Port Of Spain	16,319,913	16,441,931	16,098,028
Santiago	26,895,207	25,917,856	26,051,350
Sao Paulo	28,821,013	29,109,831	29,397,671
Toronto	20,233,045	20,254,863	20,665,382
Washington	69,212,150	69,847,162	70,515,312
Total	571,099,301	569,819,085	570,160,739
Grand Total	3,257,098,616	3,259,875,405	3,271,993,030

ANNEXURE B

NUMBER OF SOUTH AFRICANS EMPLOYED AT FOREIGN MISSIONS: AFRICA MISSIONS
Mission	Number of South Africans employed at missions
Abidjan	5
Abuja	8
Accra	6
Addis Ababa	19
Algiers	6
Antananarivo	4
Asmara	3
Bamako	5
Bangui	3
Bissau	3
Brazzaville	4
Bujumbura	5
Cairo	7
Conakry	5
Cotonou	4
Dakar	6
Dar Es Salaam	6
Gaborone	8
Harare	7
Juba	4
Kampala	6
Khartoum	5
Kigali	5
Kinshasa	10
Lagos	7
Libreville	5
Lilongwe	5
Luanda	8
Lubumbashi	4
Lusaka	6
Malabo	2
Maputo	9
Maseru	6
Mbabane	5
Monrovia	5
Moroni	4
Nairobi	8
N'djamena	4
Niamey	3
Nouakchott	4
Ouagadougou	4
Port Louis	4
Rabat	4
Sao Tome	3
Tunis	4
Windhoek	6
Yaounde	5
Total	259

NUMBER OF SOUTH AFRICANS EMPLOYED AT FOREIGN MISSIONS: ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST MISSIONS

Mission	Number of South Africans employed at missions
Abu Dhabi	4
Amman	4
Astana	4
Bangkok	5
Beijing	12
Canberra	6
Colombo	4
Damascus	4
Doha	4
Dubai	6
Hanoi	5
Hong Kong	4
Islamabad	5
Jakarta	6
Jeddah	4
Kuala Lumpur	6
Kuwait City	4
Manila	4
Mumbai	6
Muscat	4
New Delhi	12
Ramallah	4
Riyadh	6
Seoul	5
Shanghai	5
Singapore	8
Suva	3
Taipei	4
Tehran	4
Tel Aviv	4
Tokyo	8
Wellington	5
Total	169

NUMBER OF SOUTH AFRICANS EMPLOYED AT FOREIGN MISSIONS : AMERICAS MISSIONS
Mission	Number of South Africans employed at missions
Brasilia	10
Buenos Aires	4
Caracas	4
Chicago	4
Havana	6
Kingston	4
Lima	4
Los Angeles	5
Mexico City	5
New York (CG)	5
New York (UN)	19
Ottawa	7
Port Of Spain	3
Santiago	4
Sao Paulo	4
Toronto	4
Washington	16
Total	108

NUMBER OF SOUTH AFRICANS EMPLOYED AT FOREIGN MISSIONS: EUROPE MISSIONS
Mission	Number of South Africans employed at missions
Ankara	6
Athens	5
Berlin	11
Berne	5
Brussels	11
Bucharest	4
Budapest	5
Copenhagen	4
Dublin	4
Geneva	13
Helsinki	4
Kyiv	3
Lisbon	5
London	16
Madrid	4
Milan	4
Moscow and Minsk	12
Munich	6
Oslo	4
Paris	10
Prague	4
Rome	8
Sofia	4
Stockholm	5
The Hague	7
Holy See	2
Vienna	14
Warsaw	5
Total	185
Grand Total	721

ANNEXURE C

NUMBER OF FOREIGN STAFF EMPLOYED AT EACH MISSION: AFRICA MISSIONS
Mission	Number of foreign staff employed at mission
Abidjan	16
Abuja	24
Accra	15
Addis Ababa	71
Algiers	16
Antananarivo	12
Asmara	6
Bamako	10
Bangui	0
Bissau	13
Brazzaville	16
Bujumbura	11
Cairo	21
Conakry	8
Cotonou	9
Dakar	14
Dar Es Salaam	13
Gaborone	19
Harare	20
Juba	6
Kampala	15
Khartoum	12
Kigali	16
Kinshasa	25
Lagos	11
Libreville	10
Lilongwe	15
Luanda	23
Lubumbashi	12
Lusaka	13
Malabo	17
Maputo	41
Maseru	11
Mbabane	13
Monrovia	11
Moroni	10
Nairobi	20
N'djamena	6
Niamey	5
Nouakchott	9
Ouagadougou	10
Port Louis	11
Rabat	9
Sao Tome	4
Tunis	10
Windhoek	16
Yaounde	9
Total	684

NUMBER OF FOREIGN STAFF EMPLOYED AT EACH MISSION : ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST MISSIONS
Mission	Number of foreign staff employed at mission
Abu Dhabi	8
Amman	8
Astana	12
Bangkok	13
Beijing	23
Canberra	17
Colombo	9
Damascus	7
Doha	7
Dubai	10
Hanoi	14
Hong Kong	9
Islamabad	18
Jakarta	10
Jeddah	10
Kuala Lumpur	11
Kuwait City	10
Manila	8
Mumbai	15
Muscat	9
New Delhi	22
Ramallah	9
Riyadh	18
Seoul	14
Shanghai	13
Singapore	9
Suva	5
Taipei	13
Tehran	13
Tel Aviv	13
Tokyo	21
Wellington	6
Total	384

NUMBER OF FOREIGN STAFF EMPLOYED AT EACH MISSION : AMERICAS MISSIONS
Mission	Number of foreign staff employed at mission
Brasilia	25
Buenos Aires	10
Caracas	9
Chicago	11
Havana	31
Kingston	7
Lima	11
Los Angeles	9
Mexico City	14
New York (Cg)	22
New York (Un)	12
Ottawa	12
Port Of Spain	6
Santiago	10
Sao Paulo	12
Toronto	7
Washington	35
Total	243

NUMBER OF FOREIGN STAFF EMPLOYED AT EACH MISSION : EUROPE MISSIONS
Mission	Number of foreign staff employed at mission
Ankara	14
Athens	12
Berlin	33
Berne	13
Brussels	36
Bucharest	7
Budapest	10
Copenhagen	9
Dublin	11
Geneva	17
Helsinki	10
Kyiv	10
Lisbon	13
London	48
Madrid	15
Milan	9
Moscow	21
Munich	11
Oslo	7
Paris	29
Prague	11
Rome	19
Sofia	9
Stockholm	9
The Hague	18
The Holy See	4
Vienna	26
Warsaw	12
Total	443
Grand Total	1754

Reply:

1.. The South African Law Commission (as it then was) submitted its report on euthanasia and artificial preservation of life (which included the Bill on end of life decisions) to the former Minister of Justice, AM Omar, in terms of section 7(1) of the South African Law Commission Act, 1973. He, in turn, referred the report to the then Minister of Health, Dr NCD Zuma, for her attention on 15 June 1999.

Minister Omar’s recommendation to the Minister of Health reads as follows:

“The sections of the Bill dealing with the cessation of treatment, palliative care and living wills are of vital importance to the medical profession and patients and I realise that their enactment should not be unnecessarily delayed. However, in order to ensure public participation on the question whether provision should be made for active euthanasia and if so, on what basis, I would like to recommend for your consideration that an appropriate ad-hoc select committee of Parliament be appointed to consider the issue of active euthanasia as set out in section 5 of the Bill.”

2. No, this matter is within the competence of the Minister of Health.

Reply:

The Judge will only grant an order/deliver judgment after considering the application or evidence, depending on the nature of the proceedings. In Civil Matters, the order will be made available to all parties after it has been granted. It is the responsibility of the party seeking the relief to ensure that the order is enforced.

Therefore, the Office of the Chief Justice is not the correct authority to implement the court order. The reply to question 2714 of 16 January 2017 still stands.

Reply:

(a)(i)(ii) and (ii) I have been advised that the Department leases two land parcels from the Department of Public Works, namely 460 Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria on which the O R Tambo building (DIRCO Head Office) is situated as well as land in Matroosberg Avenue, Waterkloof, Pretoria, on which the Johnny Makatini diplomatic guest house is situated.

(b)(i)(ii) & (iii) None.

Reply:

1. No, the Minister of Home Affairs was not aware or informed of negotiations between the parties mentioned by the Honourable Member.

2. Not applicable.

Reply:

The Visa Adjudication System (VAS) is not designed to keep statistics according to company names. The system keeps records of applicants’ details in a unique identification code, commonly known as a reference number. Only through these details would the Department be in a position to retrieve the original application and explain each decision.

Reply:

(1)(a) The cash payment tender process has been suspended pending investigation into various concerns raised. The final decision on the status of the tender will be determined, by no later than 11 May 2018.

(b) Since the tender process is not yet finalised, information about bidders cannot be made public.

(c) The concerns raised are about the accuracy and completeness of the statistical information (numbers of beneficiaries paid per pay point), needed to prepare a credible costing model.

(2) We are not aware of any persons or officials in the department who have been part and parcel of a process to ignore the Constitutional Court rulings against the department, however any evidence to the contrary will be considered. Suffice to state that the rulings of the Constitutional Court will be met.

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Approved by the Minister on

Date……………………….

Reply:

(1) Does her department have a working relationship with Mr Melusi Ntuli, who invented a chargeless electric engine, which is 100% green technology, if not why not?

The department established the Grassroots Innovation Programme as a means to improve access and participation in the national system of innovation. This programme specifically targets innovators who are not part of formal institutions of innovation nor have access to formal facilities critical for their innovative solutions. The department appointed the Technology Localization Implementation Unit (TLIU), of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as an implementing agent of the Grassroots Innovation Programme. When Mr. Ntuli approached the department requesting assistance with the development of his invention in 2016, the department swiftly responded and advised him to enroll in the Grassroots Innovation Programme. As this programme was implemented by the CSIR's TLIU, all participants of this programme entered into a contractual relationship with the CSIR. Mr. Ntuli duly signed a contract on 24 April 2016. The contractual relationship between Mr. Ntuli and the CSIR was terminated at Mr. Ntuli's insistence. The termination was finalized by 21 July 2017.

Prior to voluntarily terminating the contractual relationship which effectively ended his participation as a beneficiary of the Grassroots Innovation Programme, Mr. Ntuli was receiving prototype design assistance from the Durban University of Technology; had been provided with computer aided design equipment; had been profiled nationally and participated at the India Festival of Innovation, a platform intended to assist innovators to market and profile their innovations in India.

(2) if so, (a) what are the details of the specified relationship?

Since Mr. Ntuli's insistence of terminating the contractual relationship, there is no longer a relationship between him and the department. The department in its communication with indicating him that he is still . welcome to participate in the Grassroots Innovation Programme within its existing terms and conditions.

(b) how is her department assisting him in developing and making prototypes of his invention?

The Grassroots Innovation Programmes funds prototype development, technical training e.g. machining and tooling, computer aided design, markets and profiles innovation to raise awareness, etc. It does not fund accommodation costs nor does it pay stipends.

(c) what amount of funding has her department allocated towards his project.

The assistance granted by the programme to Mr. Ntuli is valued at R205 096.00 and covered the payment for prototype development, design and machining expertise, provision of management development support and training as well as marketing and profiling his innovation. This amount excludes the costs of CSIR and DST staff who assisted Mr. Ntuli in the development of his networks and for marketing his innovation.
 

Reply:

(1) The information we have is unverified. I will provide details once the information is available.

Reply:

a) Yes. According to the Prudential Authority at the South African Reserve Bank (Prudential Authority), Grindrod Bank has a banking licence in terms of the Banks Act, and that the banking licence was issued in December 2006.

b) We cannot confirm whether a company is locally or foreign owned, particularly if it is listed and / or its ultimate owners (or shareholders) are listed or their identity not explicitly identified (eg hidden via structuring). What we can confirm is whether the company is domiciled in South Africa or not, and if listed, where its primary listing is. In this instance, the Prudential Authority has confirmed that the company is domiciled in South Africa. In addition, whilst Grindrod Bank is not listed, its majority shareholder (Grindrod Limited) is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

c) The Prudential Authority furthermore confirmed that Grindrod Bank is 96.55% owned by Grindrod Limited and 3.45% owned by Amber Bay Investments (Pty) Ltd.

Reply:

DAFF

(a) No award was made by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to Kamsherai

(b) Not applicable.

(i)(aa) Not applicable.

(bb) Not applicable.

(ii)(aa) Not applicable.

(bb) Not applicable.

(cc) Not applicable.

GAUTENG AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

No payments have been made to Kamsherai in the past five financial years.

WESTERN CAPE

No payments have been made to Kamsherai in the past five financial years.

NORTHERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LAND REFORM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

No payments have been made to Kamsherai in the past five financial years.

EASTERN CAPE – No response

KZN – No response

LIMPOPO – No response

NORTH WEST – No response

MPUMALANGA – No response

FREE STATE – No response

 

Reply:

a) The statement made by the Minister of Finance during the Executive Leadership course was not referring to any specific Metropolitan, Intermediate City or municipalities. The Minister was speaking in general based on the National Treasury’s broad observation over time with regard to financial management challenges which if not properly addressed could lead to collapse as evidenced by the experience of other cities elsewhere.

b) It is well known that a number of municipalities face significant governance, service delivery and financial challenges. These are often related, and the National Treasury has repeatedly emphasized that governance challenges are the most common underlying driver of service delivery and financial challenges.

The National Treasury does have concerns about the performance of some municipalities with respect to governance, institutional, financial health and service delivery, some of which are not able to pay creditors and are struggling to pay for bulk water and electricity.

The National Treasury publishes detailed information on all municipalities in its annual report on the state of local government finances and financial management, the latest report will soon be released. The report does identify those municipalities that are in financial distress, there were 95 municipalities in financial distress in 2016/17 report. Although these municipalities are cause for immediate concern, it should be noted that all of our municipalities – including metropolitan municipalities - have significant room to improve performance on many of the indicators tracked in the state of local government finances and financial management.

c) National and Provincial governments provide extensive support to all municipalities in terms of section 154 of the Constitution. Details of these support measures are also provided in the state of local government finances report. More recently, the adoption of the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) has led to greater coordination and focussing of support to different categories of municipalities, in order to enable them to respond more effectively to their development challenges and align their performance with our national development goals. With the IUDF, the Cities Support Programme, which is coordinated by the National Treasury, are working closely with our metropolitan municipalities. The Department of Cooperative Governance has begun to rollout out a complementary programme for Intermediate Cities, while the design of a small towns programme is being finalised in consultation with the SA Local Government Association. These programmes strongly complement the systemic support and reform programmes such as Back to Basics (B2B) and Municipal Financial Management reforms.

The National Treasury and the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) are collaborating to prioritise municipalities that are in financial distress and failing to deliver services for support and intervention to restore them to sustainability, working in collaboration with provinces.

The previous Minister of Finance during his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in October 2017, recognised the municipal financial management challenges experienced and announced the introduction of a funding mechanism to support the recovery plans for municipalities that face a financial crisis, as provided for in section 139(5) of The Constitution. The DoRA published in February 2018 provides a brief background to the proposed funding mechanism namely, the Municipal Restructuring Grant (MRG).

The purpose of this grant, as described in the DoRA, is “to be a short term intervention that will fund the turnaround of struggling municipalities”. This will provide some financial relief to municipalities that require financial support to improve their current situation. It is important to note that this grant allocation is not intended to fund the complete financial recovery plan but rather to contribute to the implementation of corrective action that demonstrates sufficient alignment to NT’s “game changers” referred to previously in this document.

Reply:

The DBE does not provide sanitary towels to schools and neither has such provision been budgeted for. Education stakeholders and partners in the business sector are being lobbied to consider supporting this undertaking within their available means and resources. The Honourable Member is advised to request the information directly from the province concerned.

Reply:

(1) Whether his department conducts tests for listeriosis in live animals; if so, (a) what procedures are followed and (b) has there been any additional testing instituted due to the latest listeriosis outbreak;

Listeriosis is not a disease listed as either a notifiable or controlled in terms of the Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984). The Department therefore has no official programme for monitoring its occurrence and no tests are conducted on live animals. Listeria monocytogenes is ubiquitous, and it is usually found in soil, water, decaying vegetation, and many farm animals and other domestic and wild animals can harbour the bacterium. The organisms do not normally make animals sick. The listing of the disease is currently limited to human illnesses.

DAFF has introduced additional testing for Listeria on imported mechanically deboned meat (MDM) at the ports of entry.

The Department will however support any industry driven programmes provided it has a clear and scientific plan with the contingency measures outlined should a farm test positive.

(2) (a) what is considered to be a safe level of listeriosis on (i) live animals and (ii) animal products and (b) what standards are used in each case;

2 (a) (i) There is no limit for the amount of Listeria monocytogenes in live animals.

2 (a) (ii) There is no limit for the amount of listeria monocytogenes in raw meat.

(b) The standard used is the “Guidelines on the application of general principles of food hygiene to the control of Listeria Monocytogenes in foods (CAC/GL 61 – 2007)” issued by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The enumeration of listeria in food is limited to ready to eat (RTE) products (Processed meats in this case) and not live animals and raw non ready to eat products. It is generally assumed that non ready to eat products (including meat) will not be consumed raw and the cooking process with kill the listeria organism. Listeria is very liable to heat and is destroyed at temperatures around 600C.

The presence of listeria in raw meat at primary processing (abattoirs) and on farms is a process hygiene criteria. This means that its presence indicates inadequate hygiene and therefore the action to be taken is to institute intensive cleaning of the premises. This is different to a food safety criteria as in ready to eat products in which the presence of listeria must be responded to by withdrawal of the food from the food chain.

(3)       what (a) has been the economic impact of the latest listeriosis outbreak in the agricultural sector and (b) steps have been taken by his department to limit the potential job losses in this regard?                                                         

a) The economic impact of this disease has not been documented in South Africa, however the cost of eradicating the listeriosis would be “substantial”. This is particularly true if the source is water, an abattoir or food processing plant. The quarterly economic overview to be released around June is expected to reflect economic impact the disease had and continue to have in the country. This will be on a range of key economic variables, particularly domestic sales on related products and export sales. The bigger impact is that all the SADC countries (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana) who buy processed meat from South Africa have banned South African exports affecting the economic performance negatively. The impact on Tiger Brands and Rainbow Foods will be highly negative (as their share price has apparently gone down), including employment, level and pattern of consumption, production and so on. This will be reflected in the next Economic Overview analysis in June 2018, as most of these figures are not yet available.

b) The department has not taken direct steps to limit potential job losses as a result of listeriosis outbreak. However, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (DAFF) has undertaken in collaboration with the Department of Health; the Department of Trade and Industry to address the outbreak of Listeriosis The outbreak and subsequent spreading of listeriosis contamination will likely not lead to short-term job losses, however, if they end up having to close the factory all together, that will have an impact on jobs.

Reply:

a) (i) The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) does not own land.

(ii) DAFF administers land on behalf of the Department of Public Works to preserve the land’s agricultural potential. The land administered are in all the 9 provinces.

GAUTENG - (6488.8419ha)

KWAZULU NATAL – (6794.6304ha)

MPUMALANGA – (4058.6147ha)

LIMPOPO – (3967.2156ha)

NORTHERN CAPE - (11715.7721ha)

EASTERN CAPE – (4415.2687ha)

NORTH WEST – (9788.393 ha)

FREE STATE – (6521.4947ha)

WESTERN CAPE - (19481.9748ha)

Each land has its size and all combined is 73232.1959 hectares for all the 9 provinces.

(iii) DAFF leases the properties mainly for agricultural activities such as livestock grazing and some for planting of crops.

(b) (i) The Agricultural Research Centre which is an entity reporting to the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries owns 16 755.5119 hectares.

(ii) The ARC has no exclusive rights on land.

(iii) The ARC does not lease land from the state.

Reply:

All appointments in the Office of the Minister were effected in terms of Chapter 8 of the Ministerial Handbook and in accordance with Chapter 1, Part VII, Paragraph C.1B of the former Public Service Regulations, 2001 and Chapter 4, Part 4, Regulation 66 of the new Public Service Regulations, 2016 which came into effect on 1 August 2016.

Chapter 8 of the Ministerial Handbook does not provide guidelines in terms of the salary levels of core staff in the Ministry and leaves such discretion to executive authorities. The salary levels of remuneration of the staff in the Ministry were effected in terms of Chapter1, Part V, Paragraph C.3 of the former Public Service Regulations, 2001. This provision was, however amended with Regulation 44 of the newly promulgated Public Service Regulations, 2016, which came into effect on 1 August 2016.

The updated post establishment is attached.

(a)(i),(ii) and (aa)

2014/2015	2015/2016	2016/2017
(i) Budget (R’000)	(ii) Expenditure (R’000)	(i)Budget (R’000)	(ii)Expenditure (R’000)	(i)Budget (R’000)	(ii)Expenditure (R’000)
25 272	24 594	24 342	24 336	24 439	26 378

(bb)

Since 1 April 2017

(i) Budget (R’000)	(ii) Expenditure (R’000)
27 181	20 678

(b)(i),(ii),(iii),(iv) and (v)

2014/2015

Remuneration	Salary level	Job title	Qualification	Job description (Benchmarked job descriptions from DPSA attached)	Appointment date
R 1 219 737.00	15	*Chief of Staff	Masters degree in Public Management and Development	Attached	2013/02/06 - 2014/09/17 Now placed as Director: ICT Special Projects Coordinator
R 1 201 713.00	15	*Chief of Staff	Primary Teachers Diploma	Attached	2014/09/18 -2015/08/31 Now placed as Food Security & Agrarian Reform Coordinator (Branch: FSAR)
R 988 152.00	14	Media Liaison Officer	MA	Attached	2014/07/01 - 2015/08/18 Placed as Director: Communication Services (CPT) Contract expired 2017/06/30
R 988 152.00	14	Parliamentary Officer	BA	Attached	2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Contract expired
R 630 822.00	12	Administrative/ Private Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2014/07/22 to date
R 278 979.00	12	Assistant Appointments & Administrative Secretary	National Diploma	Attached	2012/11/01 - 2016/06/30 Resigned
R 227 802.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (PTA)	Grade 8	Attached	2001/11/01 to date
R 227 802.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (CPT)	Grade 12	Attached	2006/12/13 to date
R 532 278.00	11	Senior Registry Clerk	B. Admin	Attached	2009/10/02 to date
R 183 438.00	7	Driver/Messenger	Grade 6	Attached	1992/08/12 to date
R 1 201 713.00	15	Special Adviser	Masters degree in Governance and Political Transformation		2014/07/02 to date
R 1 201 713.00	15	Special Adviser	Diploma in Fine and Commercial Arts		2014/07/02 to date
R 1 742 751.00	16	** Special Adviser	B. Ed		2011/01/01 - 2014/06/30 Contract expired
R 1 570 254.00	16	** Special Adviser	Grade 12		2012/11/01 - 2014/06/30 Contract expired

* Different periods of appointment in same financial year.

** Special Advisers to the former Minister in the 2014/2015 financial year.

2015/2016

Remuneration	Salary level	Job title	Qualification	Job description (Benchmarked job descriptions from DPSA attached)	Appointment date
R1267 806.00	15	*Chief of Staff	Primary Teachers Diploma	Attached	2014/09/18 -2015/08/31 Now placed as Food Security & Agrarian Reform Coordinator (Branch: FSAR)
R1299501.00	15	*Chief of Staff	B. Sc	Attached	2015/09/03 - 2016/05/31 Resigned
R1068 564.00	14	*Media Liaison Officer	BA Corporate Communications	Attached	2015/08/24 to date
R1042 500.00	14	*Media Liaison Officer	MA	Attached	2014/07/01 - 2015/08/18 Placed as Director: Communication Services (CPT) Contract expired 2017/06/30
R1068 564.00	14	Parliamentary Officer	BA	Attached	2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Contract expiry
R 674 979.00	12	Administrative Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2014/07/22 to date
R1068 564.00	14	Administrative/ Private Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2015/08/24 - 2017/07/31 Now placed as Deputy Director: Executive Implementation & Secretariat Support
R 674 979.00	12	Assistant Appointments & Administrative Secretary	National Diploma	Attached	2012/11/01 - 2016/06/30 Resigned
R 243 747.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (PTA)	Grade 8	Attached	2001/11/01 to date
R 243 747.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (CPT)	Grade 12		2006/12/13 to date
R 612 822.00	11	Senior Registry Clerk	B. Admin	Attached	2009/10/02 to date
R 196 278.00	7	Driver/Messenger	Grade 6	Attached	1992.08.12 to date
R1299 501.00	15	Special Adviser	Masters degree in Governance and Political Transformation		2014/07/02 to date
R1299 501.00	15	Special Adviser	Diploma in Fine and Commercial Arts		2014/07/02 to date

* Different periods of appointment in same financial year.

2016/2017

Remuneration	Salary level	Job title	Qualification	Job description (Benchmarked job descriptions from DPSA attached	Appointment date
R 1 299 501.00	15	Chief of Staff	B. Sc	Attached	2015/09/03 - 2016/05/31 Resigned
R 1 068 564.00	14	Media Liaison Officer	BA Corporate Communications	Attached	2015/08/24 to date
R 1 068 564.00	14	Parliamentary Officer	BA	Attached	2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Contract expiry
R 898 743.00	13	Administrative Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2014/07/22 to date
R 1 068 564.00	14	Administrative/ Private Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2015/08/24 - 2017/07/31 Now placed as Deputy Director: Executive Implementation & Secretariat Support
R 726 276.00	12	*Assistant Appointments & Administrative Secretary	BA (Hons), HED (undergraduate), Postgraduate Diploma: Management	Attached	2016/07/25 to date
R 726 276.00	12	*Assistant Appointments & Administrative Secretary	National Diploma	Attached	2012/11/01 - 2016/06/30 Resigned
R 262 272.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (PTA)	Grade 8	Attached	2001/11/01 to date
R 262 272.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (CPT)	Grade 12	Attached	2006/12/13 to date
R 612 822.00	11	Senior Registry Clerk	B. Admin	Attached	2009/10/02 to date
R 211 194.00	7	Driver/Messenger	Grade 6	Attached	1992.08.12 to date
R 1 299 501.00	15	Special Adviser	Masters degree in Governance and Political Transformation		2014/07/02 to date
R 1 299 501.00	15	Special Adviser	Diploma in Fine and Commercial Arts		2014/07/02 to date

* Different periods of appointment in same financial year.

Since 1 April 2017

Remuneration	Salary level	Job title	Qualification	Job description (Benchmarked job descriptions from DPSA attached	Appointment date
R 1 127 334.00	14	Chief of Staff	Master of Arts	Attached	2017/04/01 to date
R 1 068 564.00	14	Media Liaison Officer	BA Corporate Communications	Attached	2015/08/24 to date
R 948 174.00	13	*Parliamentary Officer	Bachelor of Arts	Attached	2017/10/01
R 1 127 334.00	14	*Parliamentary Officer	BA	Attached	2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 Contract expiry
R 948 174.00	13	Administrative Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2014/07/22 to date
R 1 127 334.00	14	Administrative/ Private Secretary	Grade 12	Attached	2015/08/24 - 2017/07/31 Now placed as Deputy Director: Executive Implementation & Secretariat Support
R 779 295.00	12	Assistant Appointments & Administrative Secretary	BA (Hons), HED (undergraduate), Postgraduate Diploma: Management	Attached	2016/07/25 to date
R 281 418.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (PTA)	Grade 8	Attached	2001/11/01
R 281 418.00	8	Secretary/Receptionist (CPT)	Grade 12	Attached	2006/12/13 to date
R 657 558.00	11	Senior Registry Clerk	B. Admin	Attached	2009/10/02
R 226 611.00	7	Driver/Messenger	Grade 6	Attached	199/08/12 to date
R 1 370 973.00	15	Special Adviser	Masters degree in Governance and Political Transformation		2014/07/02 to date
R 1 370 973.00	15	Special Adviser	Diploma in Fine and Commercial Arts		2014/07/02 to date

** Different periods of appointment in same financial year.

Reply:

1. I wish to request the Honourable Member of Parliament to please clarify what specific information, the MP requires in this regard. The Office of the Chief State Law Adviser provides legal opinions to the National Executive and National Departments, as to the constitutionality and legality of draft Bills and international legal agreements. The Offices of the various State Attorneys act as Attorney of Record for the National Executive as well as National Government Departments.

If the terminology of “state legal advisors” is interpreted as “state attorney”, I am further informed that if the interpretation of the question is to mean “where the state attorney settled the matter without a power of attorney from the client Department”, that the Offices of the State Attorney do not keep such detailed statistics as these matters are kept in general with the statistics of settled matters. If the information is to be sought now, the Office of the Acting Chief Litigation Officer would have to request the various State Attorneys’ Offices to search their files individually as far back as 2010, which would mean an enormous amount of human resources and time would have to be expended in the search, as some of the files have already been closed and archived.

2. (a) (i) I am informed that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) does not have a readily available database from 2010 until the current financial year in respect to the number of cases settled by the DoJ&CD. However, the information on the amounts claimed and settled is provided in Table B below.

(ii) Table A below provides details of the total number of cases that were settled for each provincial department during the 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years:

TABLE A: Number of cases settled: Provincial Departments

Province	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18
Eastern Cape	62	36	11
Free State	42	28	5
Gauteng	342	251	105
Kwa-Zulu Natal	386	412	119
Limpopo	27	14	7
Northern Cape	2	3	1
North West	28	15	4
Western Cape	80	28	2
Grand Total	969	787	254

(b) Tables C below provide details of the total amounts settled for each provincial department.

(i) TABLE B: Total amount claimed and finalised by the DoJ&CD during the 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years

2014/15	2015/16	2016/17
Amount Claimed	Amount Finalised	Amount Claimed	Amount Finalised	Amount Claimed	Amount Finalised
R 3 647 779 462	R 3 698 400	R 6 987 912 594	R 1 072 417	R 7 077 064 221	R 4 622 146

(ii) TABLE C: Total amounts settled: Provincial Departments for the 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years

Province	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18
Eastern Cape	R 31 862 260	R 62 168 730	R 92 646 921
Free State	R 1 734 752	R 3 711 829	R 236 593
Gauteng	R 337 926 657	R 58 104 197	R 86 649 443
Kwa-Zulu Natal	R 27 295 033	R 195 124 853	R 169 469 778
Limpopo	R 6 529 173	R 1 357 058	R 235 325
Northern Cape	R 17 264	R 234 900	R 120 000
North West	R 24 149 652	R 25 157 373	R 6 071 163
Western Cape	R 24 235 753	R 1 495 369	R 12 500 000
Grand Total	R 453 750 543	R 347 354 311	R 367 929 223

Note:

The Province of Mpumalanga does not have a State Attorney’s Office. The Provincial Government of Mpumalanga is assisted by the State Attorney Office in Pretoria.

Reply:

1. a) South Africa had 57 980 farming units in 1993 as reported by Statistics South Africa in Census of Agriculture of 1993.

a) The current farming units is reported in Census of Agriculture of 2007 being 39 965 farming units.

Item	Year
	2007 Census	2002 Survey	1993 Census
Farming Units	39 965	45 818	57 980

(2) The number of commercial farming units declined substantially from 1993 to 2007 by 31%.

a) The reasons why number of farms has decreased overtime are the following:

• Agricultural production pre - 1994 was subsidised (prices received by farmers were guaranteed) and post – 1994 when subsidies fell away, a lot of smaller farming units could not survive as they were not ‘profitable’ any longer.
• Smaller farms have been bought over by large commercial farms (consolidation), to improve economies of scale.
• Urbanisation;
• Large farms were been bought over by mining companies.

b) The question on the average size of a farm was asked in the Survey 2002 but there was poor response rate on the question because of the sensitive nature of the question. Poorly answered questions from both Census/Survey are not reported on because the results will be skewed.

Reply:

Yes, the Gauteng Department of Education has provided the requested information. Please find attached NA 287.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

WRITTEN REPLY

QUESTION 287

DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 24/02/2017

INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 04/2017

287. Mr M R Bara (DA) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:

Has her department undertaken studies to determine the total number of children who live in the Greenstone residential area in Johannesburg, which borders Edenvale in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality; if not, (a) why not and (b) what informed the decision of her department not to build any schools in the specified area; if so, what are the details of the study? NW306E

Response

Yes, a study has been conducted. The study showed that schools around the area are populated by children from Tembisa, and Alexandra. Here are schools that cater for children from Tembisa and Alexandra:

a) Nobel Primary School – This school is about 2km away from the area in question and is populated by learners from Tembisa and Alexandra and these learners are transported privately by parents to schools;

Eastlyn Primary School - This school is also about 3km away from the area in question and is populated by learners from Tembisa and Alexandra and these learners are transported privately by parents to schools; and

Edenglen Primary School - This school is also about 3km away from the area in question and is populated by learners from Tembisa and Alexandra and these learners are transported privately by parents to schools.

b) The parents of the learners residing at Greenstone apparently are not interested in these public schools or have already been assisted with accommodation at other schools. Schools in this area are therefore capable of assisting the population of learners that may need space.

If additional schools are required, these should preferably be constructed in Tembisa and Alexandra.

Reply:

(a)(i) There are no consulting firms or companies currently contracted by the Department.

SACE

(a)(ii)	(b)(i)	(b)(ii)	(b)(iii)(aa)	(b)(iii)(bb)	(b)(iii)(cc)	(b)(iii)(dd)
1	SITA	Maintenance and hosting of IT Services	August 2015	3 years	R 987 541.12	Mr Morris Mapindani, Chief Financial Officer
1	Bradforce Security and Projects Developments	Security Services	August 2017	1 year	R 103 200	Mr Morris Mapindani, Chief Financial Officer

Umalusi

(a)(ii)	(b)(i)	(b)(ii)	(b)(iii)(aa)	(b)(iii)(bb)	(b)(iii)(cc)	(b)(iii)(dd)
1	BIG Business Innovations Group	Internal Audit	1 April 2017	3 years	R 1 920 629.00	Dr MS Rakometsi, Chief Financial Officer
2	Nexis SAB&T	External Audit	1 April 2017	3 year	R 1 501 044.00	Dr MS Rakometsi, Chief Financial Officer

Reply:

(a) The expenditure on Compensation of employees per annum for all Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) is reflected in the Table below, however this includes the compensation for the teachers as well as office based staff. The split per teachers and non-educators have been requested from the PEDs and will be provided as soon as received.

	FINANCIAL YEARS
Compensation of Employees in R'Billion	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18
	69 710	84 006	99 253	109 854	122 138	129 856	139 178	146 253	153 193	164 869	177 514
Non Compensation of Employees costs in R'Billion	18 588	23 535	27 035	28 400	34 439	36 304	37 831	40 602	43 947	46 799	47 708
Percentage of compensation of Employees to total costs	79%	78%	79%	79%	78%	78%	78%	78%	78%	78%	79%

Source: DBE Annual Report.

(b) The Department of Basic Education has requested the information from all PEDs on the percentage spent on each pupil per annum over the past 10 years. The responses will be forwarded as soon as the DBE receives them.

Reply:

a) The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD)

1. The DSBD does not own any land;
2. The DSBD does not have any exclusive rights to any land; and
3. The Department also does not lease any land from the State:

(aa)&(bb) Not applicable since the Department does not own any land nor lease land.

1. The Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)
2. SEDA does not own land;
3. SEDA does not have any exclusive rights to any land; and
4. SEDA does not lease from the State:

(aa)&(bb) Not applicable.

1. The Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)
2. 367 713 m²
3. 367 713 m²
4. 5 054 m² - North West Development Corporation SOC Ltd:

(aa) SEFA letting to SMMEs / tenants.

(bb) Occupied by tenants only.

Reply:

The question is relevant to the provincial administration since it is the responsibility of the employer, who in terms of section 3(1)(b) of the Employment of Educators Act is the Head of the Provincial Education Department. The honourable member is encouraged to request the relevant information directly from the Provinces.

Reply:

Referring the question to KwaZulu–Natal National Education Department was erroneous. The question was forwarded to the Eastern Cape Provincial Education Department, and the response has been received.

The candidate has been resulted by the Eastern Cape Education Department and the certificate has been printed by Umalusi, and couriered to the Alphendale Secondary School in East London.

Reply:

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has written a letter to Limpopo Provincial Education Department (PED) to request a response to the question raised above as DBE does not have the required information. The DBE will forward the response from the PED as soon as the information is received. It is suggested that the request be made through the Provincial Legislature in Limpopo.

Reply:

The response below was sourced from Gauteng Department of Education

(a)

(a) (i)

2016 academic year = R38 127 838.10

(aa) Edenvale- R13 903 691.86

(bb)Tembisa-0

(cc) Kempton Park-R24 224 146.24

(a) (ii)

2017 academic year = The schools will apply by the 30th June 2018 and payment is due on or before 15th November 2018. Therefore the amount can only be determined after the payment has been made

(b)

(b) (i)

2016 academic year = R594 190.01

(ii)(aa) Edenvile-R159 758.09

(ii)(bb) Tembisa-O

(iv)(cc) Kempton Park-R434 431.92

(b) (ii)

2017 academic year = The schools will apply by the 30th June 2018 and payment is due on or before 15th November 2018. Therefore the amount can only be determined after the payment has been made

Reply:

PROVINCE	PRIMARY SCHOOLS	HIGH SCHOOLS
Eastern Cape	3 083	1 854
Free State	581	157
Gauteng	586	175
KwaZulu -Natal	3 001	1 393
Limpopo	2 384	1 198
Mpumalanga	1 041	344
North West	837	276
Northern Cape	244	129
Western Cape	257	20
Total	12 014	5 546

b) An estimated amount of R 28 billion is required to build libraries in all schools without libraries. It should however, be noted that some schools use corner libraries, mobile libraries, container libraries and community libraries. The above figures only refer to brick and mortar libraries.

Reply:

The matter falls within the competence and purview of the Eastern Cape and the Honourable member is urged to request the information through the Provincial legislature. However, the Department of Basic Education have requested the information from Eastern Cape Provincial Education Department (EC PED). The information will be forwarded as soon as received from EC PED.

Reply:

This matter has been referred to the Kwa-Zulu Department of Education for more information and a response will be furnished as soon as the Province has responded.

Reply:

a) The budget for teacher salaries or compensation is not allocated to individual schools. A basket of posts is determined at Provincial Education Department (PED) level and such posts are then distributed to schools through the post provisioning model. In the event of underspending, funds are returned to the provincial Treasury.

b) Vacancies at schools occur throughout the year due to natural attrition. Post Level 1 (PL1) vacancies are generally filled as soon as they occur. Promotional posts (Principal, Deputy Principal and Head of Department) are advertised in terms of the regulations and are filled as soon as practically possible, usually within 3-6 months. However, acting appointments are made as soon as vacancies occur.

(i) The Department does not routinely track every vacancy, but receives and reports on the total number of vacancies on a quarterly basis.

(ii) As indicated in (i) above, the Department does not track school level detail regarding vacancies.

(iii) As indicated in (a) above the budget for compensation of educators is not allocated to schools.