Questions and Replies

Reply:

CLAIM FOR ALLEGED SERVICES RENDERED AND BREACH OF CONTRACT
Claim for services rendered, storage fee, stolen material, emotional distresses and for material ordered	R 166,483.47
The Plaintiff is suing the Department for services rendered alleging that the Department is refusing to pay her	R 202,893.14
The Plaintiff issued against the Department for service rendered in terms of Service Level Agreement	R 26,000,000.00
The Plaintiff issued summons against the Department in respect of service rendered	R 176,800.00
Claim for services rendered	R 3,245,417.07
A valuer is suing the Department for services rendered in four assignments. As a result there are four claims against the Department.	R 45,441.31
Plaintiff is claiming monies owing in terms of Tender No PT 01/014 for the maintenance repairs and services of kitchen equipment	R 133,380.00
The Plaintiff issued against the Department for service rendered in terms of Service Level Agreement	R 26,000,000.00
Claim for professional services rendered	R 17,845,198.50
Claim for goods sold and delivered	867308, 00
Claim for payment of services	R 18,791,349.60
Claim for services rendered R 118 001.63	R 118,001.63
services rendered	R 786, 588.60
The Plaintiff is suing the Department for the alleged breach of the contract for installation of electrical and mechanical works - Mthatha.	R 124,198.22
The Plaintiff is suing the Department for various claims 1.breach of contract , 2.Service rendered, and damages suffered,	R 1,647,224,801.00
Claim for unlawful cancellation of contract	R 1,319,159.20
Claim for failure to honor progress payment certified by the Dept engineer	R 8 182 116.50
Claim for breach of contract	R 52,374,747.42
MOTOR VEHICLE CLAIMS
The Plaintiff is suing the Department for the damages suffered as a result of motor vehicle collision	R 11,895.56
The Plaintiff is suing the Department for the damages suffered as a result of the motor vehicle collision	R 12,411.96
Claim for motor vehicle damages arising out of dishing into excavations on the road.	R 22,168.26
Claim for motor vehicle damages arising out of dishing into excavations on the road.	R 21,000.00
DAMAGES CLAIMS
Two Claims for damages	R 15,300,000.00
Claim for damages (medical costs)	R 2,572,000.00
Claim for damages (medical costs)	R 4,448,000.00
Claim for damages	R 340,000,000.00
Claim for damages	R10 500 000.00
Claim for personal injuries	R 1,175,000.00
Claim for damages.	R 20, 751.73
Claim for damages caused by fire started on the Department's Property	R 17,382,044.00
The Department received Summons through the office of State Attorney. In the Summons Plaintiff is suing for vicarious liability for damages sustained as a result of a motor vehicle collision	R 121,950.00
Claim for damages arising out of injuries suffered within the premises of Bethanie police station	R 550,000.00
Claim for Damages resulting from a letter of appointment	R 62,843,251.00
Claim for damages emanating from excavations done on Departmental property	R 7,869,253.99
ARREAR RENTAL CLAIMS
Claim for arrear rental	R 85,760.60
Arrear Rentals	R 529,555.95
Arrear Rentals	R 709,650.00
Claim for arrear rentals	R 7, 900,000.00
Arrear Rentals	R 344, 086.28
Claim for specific performance, cancellation of lease and claim for damages on rental	R 14,412,280.85
Declaration of validity of lease agreement the Department intends to review and set aside.	R 95,838,133.80
	R2360 273 077.64

Reply:

The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available in the Department. The Department has, however, engaged the Provincial Departments responsible for Local Government to obtain the relevant information from the municipalities. The information will be submitted to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available.

Reply:

The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) did not refuse to provide R500 million funding request from the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality to mitigate the impact of the disaster as a result of drought. The NDMC in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, mainly Western Cape Provincial Disaster Management Centre and the Department of Water and Sanitation conducted disaster assessments in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality to determine the drought projects to be funded within the disaster grants. It is important to indicate that the disaster grants are conditional and allocated in line with the grant frameworks and the Division of Revenue Act (Act No. 3 of 2017). The NDMC only funded projects that fell within the grant frameworks conditions. The Western Cape Provincial Disaster Management Centre and the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality were advised to refer other projects that are not in line with the conditions for the disaster grants to other existing programmes within government.

Additionally, the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality made a presentation to the NDMC where they indicated that they have reprioritized funds within their internal resources to address the drought conditions. Therefore, the funding request for the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality was granted based on the projects that complied with the grant framework conditions

Reply:

The below response is based on a report submitted to the :National Department of Cooperative Governance ("Department") by the Mopani District Municipality in the Limpopo Province.

(1) (i) Yes, the Kampersrus bulk water supply and Kampersrus sewer plant projects in the Mopani District Municipality in Limpopo Province were put out to tender.

(ii) Yes, the two projects above were advertised.

(aa) Kampersrus bulk water supply project was advertised on:

• Phase 1: 18 August 201 O;

• Phase 2: 20 August 2012; and

• Phase 3: 27 February 2015.

Kampersrus sewerage plant project was advertised on;

• 20 May 2013.

(bb) Outcome of the Kampersrus bulk water supply and Kampersrus sewer plant projects were as follows:

(i) Kampersrus bulk water supply project:

• Phase 1: Melrose Civil & Building Construction were appointed as contractors for this phase of the project;

• Phase 2: H&E Construction was appointed as contractor for this phase of the project; and

• Phase 3: Makasana Construction was appointed as contractor for this phase of the project.

Kampersrus sewerage plant project:

• Dala Mintirho JV appointed as contractors for the project (ii) Details of each project plans are as follows:

Kampersrus bulk water supply project:

• Phase 1: Construction of (a) 5,8 km of 160 mm diameter PVC line (b) 15 km of 110 mm diameter uPVC line. (c) 2Ml/day Water Treatment Package Plant (d) Booster Pump Station;

• Phase 2: Construction of (a) 650m of 160mm uPVC class 16 pipeline. (b) 2400m of 160mm class 12 pipeline (c) 3400m of 150mm K9 Ductile Iron Pipe (d) Pump installations at pump house. (e) 0,56 ML Pressed Steel Tank;

and

• Phase 3: Construction of (a) 8,3 km of 110 mm uPVC pipe (b) 1,2 km of 160mm uPVC pipe (c) 2 x 0,56 ML c/w pressed steel tanks (d) clear water pump station (e) installation of relocated package.

Kampersrus sewerage plant project:

• Construction of (a) one biological reactor, two settling tanks, one inlet and two pump stations, one RAS pump station, sludge drying beds, chlorine dosing room, maturation ponds, electrical and mechanical works.

(2) Status of the Kampersrus bulk water supply and Kampersrus sewerage plant projects:

(a) The Kampersrus bulk water supply has a water treatment plant capacity of two megaliters per day (2 Ml/day) and bulk lines, while the Kampersrus sewerage plant has a capacity of two megaliters per day (2 Ml/day).

(b) Status of the Kampersrus bulk water supply project: Bulk lines and Water Treatment works have been completed, however, the municipality is still awaiting the connection to the raw water abstraction point. The physical progress is currently at 98%; and

Status of the Kampersrus sewerage plant: The waste water treatment works have been completed and is awaiting upgrading of the transformer and electricity connection by Eskom. The physical progress is currently at 98%.

(c) Yes, public participation were followed in each case.

(d) Cost implications of each project:

Kampersrus bulk water supply project:
• Phase 1: R 6,318, 196.35;

• Phase 2: R 8,741,431.65;

• Phase 3: R14,365,674.28; and

Kampersrus sewerage plant project:

• R38, 749,585.14


Find here: Recommendation

Reply:

Not all employees in the Public Service are required to submit financial disclosures of interest. In terms of the Public Service Regulations, 2016 only Senior Managers are required to submit financial disclosures every year by 30 April for the previous financial year. The new Public Service Regulations, 2016 also gave the Minister of Public Service and Administration the power to identify other categories that must disclose. The Determination on other categories of designated to disclose their financial interest and the directive on the form, date and financial interest to disclose on was signed on 16 March 2017. This determination identified other categories to disclose financial interest below the level of SMS:

• Employees earning an equivalent of salary level 13 and above through the OSD or personal notches
• Employees appointed at salary level 12 including those employees earning the equivalent of salary level 12 through the OSD
• Employees appointed at salary level 11 including those employees earning the equivalent of salary level 11 through the OSD
• Employees in Supply Chain and Finance Units, irrespective of their salary level

The submission date of 30 June 2017 and 31 July 2017 for the above-mentioned groups was extended to 30 September 2017. The e-disclosure system however remained open until 31 October 2017 for electronic submission of financial disclosures for these groups. Departments have until 31 December 2017 to finalise the checking of the information disclosed for the 2016/2017 financial year.

Senior Manger’s disclosure are submitted via the Head of Department to the Public Service Commission. All SMS in service as at March 2017 complied with the submission of their financial disclosures and the disclosures were forwarded before 31 May 2017 to the Public Service Commission

a) In the 2016-2017 financial year:

4 members of SMS were identified by the Auditor-General as having companies registered on the Central Supplier Database this is still under investigation. The PSR, 2016 prohibits public servants from doing business with an organ of state but did allow for 6 month transitional arrangement meaning doing business with an organ of state is only prohibited with effect from 1 February 2017.

b) The process of disclosure for levels below SMS have not yet been concluded therefore it is not possible to provide the information for (i) and (ii) (aa) and (bb)

Reply:

a) All 11 employees were charged with misconduct and subjected to formal disciplinary processes.

During the hearings, it was agreed between the parties that an opportunity to make representations be made available for consideration.

Please note that the Department is not at liberty to disclose the details of the settlement agreements due to signed non-disclosure agreements.

b) Four disciplinary hearings finalised and employees were given sanctions ranging from a written warning to two months suspension from work combined with final written warnings.

The disciplinary hearings for two employees could not be finalised due to death and retirement.

Five (5) cases are still pending finalisation of disciplinary processes.

c) The Department has taken a decision to subject all implicated employees to further training on the procurement processes in order to ensure that similar transgressions do not reoccur in the future.

Reply:

1. The ownership of land by the State Security Agency (SSA) is information that forms part of the broader operational strategy of the agency and therefore as a matter of policy the SSA does not disclose such information.

2. It should however be observed that the SSA is held accountable on such matters by the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI).

Reply:

a) The terms of reference of the 2016 Annual Review provides an overarching review of trends in the small business economy and is supported by detailed statistics. In doing so, the 2016 Annual Review provides an assessment of the performance of the SMME and cooperative sectors. In this regard, the 2016 Annual Review provides a profile of economic (contribution to Gross Domestic Product, Employment, Import and exports), demographic (population group, gender, age, educational level and location) indicators coupled with the number of small businesses and cooperatives in South Africa.

In addition, the 2016 Annual Review should provide a comprehensive exposition of the needs, challenges and opportunities facing the small business and cooperative sector. In terms of challenges this will include, the impact of the challenges and measures employed to cope thereof. With respect to needs, the review will cover, inter alia, access to financial and non-financial support and market access.

(b) The 2016 Annual Review was commissioned in January 2017.

(c) A draft has been compiled and will be presented to the Executive Committee of the Department of Small Business Development on 20 November 2017 and will be finalised by the end of November 2017 thereafter the report will be submitted to the Minister for consideration.

(d) The 2016 Annual Review is being conducted by Mthente Research and Consulting Services.

Reply:

The Department manages water per Water Management Area (and not per ‘province’). Below is summary of the total registered volume:

WMA	Sum of Registered Volumes (cubic metres) for period: 2017-01-01 to 2017-12-31
BERG-OLIFANTS	1 341 739 433
BREEDE-GOURITZ	1 499 696 315
INKOMATI-USUTHU	2 479 490 938
LIMPOPO	2 153 656 956
MZIMVUBU-TSITSIKAMMA	1 914 733 771
OLIFANTS	1 900 596 161
ORANGE	2 120 134 824
PONGOLA-UMZIMKULU	2 694 816 103
VAAL	4 000 022 723
Grand Total	20 104 887 223

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Reply:

a) The Department of Environmental Affairs’ study for the determination of the extent and role of waste picking in South Africa concluded that there are about 62 000 waste pickers in the country.

b) Non-government organisations, and other organisations operating in the informal sector, have suggested, in some forums, that this could be much higher. We are in the process of validating this information.

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Reply:

The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available in the Department. The Department has, however, engaged the Provincial Departments responsible for Local Government to obtain the relevant information from the municipalities. The information will be submitted to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available.

Reply:

1. 

Cycle	No officials applied	Approved/Not Approved
2014/2015	100	Not approved
2015/2016	59	Approved
2016/2017	49	Approved

2. None were approved

 

Reply:

(i) According to the records at the disposal of the Department, we only received documentation in respect of interventions in Kannaland and eDumbe local Municipalities in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, respectively.

(ii) The dates on which the documentation was received were 10 February 2017 and 23 May 2017 for Kannaland Local Municipality, and 30 August 2017 for eDumbe Local Municipality.

(iii) The nature of the financial problem at Kannaland Local Municipality was that the audit finding from the Auditor General for the financial year ending in June 2016 indicated that the municipality received an adverse finding, and that subsequent facts had confirmed that the municipality was experiencing a serious financial crisis which resulted in it being unable to meet its financial obligations. Regarding eDumbe Local Municipality, the nature of the financial problem was that the municipality’s cash flow situation had seriously deteriorated to the extent that there were insufficient funds to pay for critical operational expenditure.

(iv) From the documentation submitted by the Western Cape Minister for Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, Honourable Mr Anton Bredell, the initial step taken was the resolution by the Provincial Executive adopted on 07 December 2016 to request the Provincial Treasury to prepare an appropriate financial recovery plan for the Kannaland Local Municipality. In addition, his Department and the Provincial Treasury were requested by the Provincial Executive to develop and implement a targeted support package to address the needs of the municipality. Several subsequent steps have since been taken by the Provincial Executive to assist the municipality to overcome its shortcomings, and these include the preparation, finalization and adoption of the municipality’s financial recovery plan which is currently being implemented, as well as the Financial Management Grant funded by the Provincial Treasury.

From the documentation submitted by the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Honourable Ms Nomusa Dube-Ncube, the step taken was the resolution by the Provincial Executive adopted on 19 July 2017 to intervene at eDumbe Local Municipality in terms of section 136(2) of the MFMA, read with section 139(1) of the Constitution, and to authorize the MEC to appoint a suitably qualified Financial Administrator to draft and implement a recovery plan in the municipality. Another step taken by the Provincial Executive was to issue a directive in terms of section 139(1)(a) of the Constitution to the Municipal Council to authorize the Financial Administrator to, among others, take all decisions in relation to the finances of the municipality and to report monthly thereon to it and the MEC.

Reply:

a) The following measures will be implemented to promote waste reduction:

• Developing capacity through a specialised programme which upskills agri-stakeholders to minimise food loss.
• Compilation and updating of packaging design guidelines with the Department of Trade and Industry, Industry Associations and SABS, and a voluntary grading scheme with marketing value for brand owners can improve the design of packaging and increase collaboration between brand owners and recycling companies.
• Formalising the packaging industry extended producer responsibility plans to enable and support the unification and alignment around packaging design guidelines and other packaging industry initiatives, a mechanism which formalises Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
• Implementation of packaging design guideline once it has been developed.

b) The awareness initiatives are additional measures to enhance waste minimisation and promote the recycling economy. These measures aim to create a joint platform for communicating messages to improve consumer behaviour and industry practice towards pro-recycling in the waste sector by focusing on specific areas, including:

• minimisation of food waste by eating ugly fruit;
• separation of waste at household-level (e.g. promote the incentives and/or Buy Back Centres, re-inforce the benefits of not contaminating paper waste with food waste, etc.); and
• safe disposal of waste (e.g. promote and create awareness on the e-Waste drop-off centres).

The awareness raising measures will increase consumer awareness and demand for recyclable products that are packaged in an environmentally friendly manner.

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Reply:

1. a) Yes. The participants representing the ewaste sector requested that waste charges be introduced to increase the collection rates of ewaste.

b) The Department will be implementing a policy mechanism provided for in Section 28 of the National Environmental Management Waste Act, Act No. 59 of 2008. This policy mechanism is the Indstry Waste Management Plans (IndWMP).

c) The implementation of IndWMP promotes local beneficiation of waste materail. This will require capital funding to support large infrastructure and technology investments. These will be funded through the waste charges implemented.

2. a) There is no legislation currently in place to compel the end user to dispose of the e-waste in line with the waste hierarchy. The implementation of the levy will enable Product Responsibility Organisations (PROs) to provide financial incentves to encourage the end users to take back any redundant equipment to a buy or taker-back centre or an accredited recycler. The IndWMPs will also contain targets for collection and recycling. The Producer will be legally required to achieve these targets, and there will be adequate public awareness programs as part of these plans as well.

b) The plastic bag levy is collected by the South African Revenue Service and transferred to the National Revenue Fund. The new Industry Waste Management Plan for Paper and Packaging will include measures to collect waste plastics in general, of which plastic bags are a part of. The Industry Waste Management Plan levy will be approved together with the approved plan for the collection of the various plastics, including plastic bags.

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Reply:

 

Minister’s Response: 1. The Department procured travel related services through Travel with Flair (PTY) Ltd). These included, but not limited to;  (i) Air Travel domestic and International (ii) Air Travel Insurance (iii) Car Hire (iv) Accommodation (v) Foreign exchange (vi) Airport Connection Services These are done within the well-defined treasury prescripts and within the confines of the current austerity measures. 2. The Department always opts for the most cost effective travel routes without compromising the need for officials’ state of readiness to participate and contribute meaningfully in the conferences, meetings for which the travel was intended. All personal and officials that undertake travel are chosen on the strength of their capabilities and value addition. Notwithstanding that the question is by and large open-ended in terms of defining the period for which the information is required, all officials who travel, do so within the limits of the budget.

Reply:

I have been furnished with a reply by the CEO of the IDC, Mr Geoffrey Qhena, to the question, which follows below.

“There are no known members of the Gupta family that are Shareholders at Foskor. Historically the IDC has not been aware of any links by the Foskor Shareholders to the Gupta family.

Subsequent to the parliamentary question to the IDC, an extensive search to establish any links was undertaken.This search revealed no link to Coromandel International Limited, Sun International (FZE) Dubai, Kopano Foskor Employees Trust (SPV 3) and Ba-phalaborwa and Umhlathuze Community Trust (SPV 2). A link was however established with the Manyoro Consortium (SPV1).

To our knowledge, a possible connection is that of a Ms R Govender, with an ultimate indirect percentage in Foskor of 0,23% of the equity via the Manyoro Consortium. The consortium is a broadly held BEE entity. Ms R Govender is not involved in Foskor operations. Following the parliamentary question we have since established that she serves as a director in companies with Gupta family shareholding.”

Mr MG Qhena, IDC Chief Executive Officer, 1 December 2017

For further information, a list of Foskor Shareholders is tabulated below.

Industrial Development Corporation Ltd	59%
“Coromandel” under the following legal entities: Coromandel International Limited (2.82%) CFL Mauritius Limited (11.82%)	14%
Sun International (FZE) Dubai	1%
Manyoro Consortium (SPV 1)	15%
Kopano Foskor Employees Trust (SPV 3)	6%
Ba-phalaborwa and Umhlathuze Community Trust (SPV 2)	5%

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Reply:

ANNEXURE A

ZONING	LOCATION	EXTENT OF PROPERTY (m²)
Commercial	Sandton	56470
	Sandton	3600
Agriculture	Saldok	140ha
Industrial	Atlantis	89644
Industrial	Berlin	3562
		3485
	Cradock	65,1788ha
		9.2383ha
Industrial	East London	10060
		9623
		18974
		21909
		9052
open space	Mandini	4017
		3243
		74630
Residential	Mandini	1171
		1937
		14753
		946
		918
Road reserve	Mandini	52012

Industrial	Brits	75951
Industrial	Newcastle	8655
		8655
		10750
Industrial	Rustenburg Middelburg	3036
		13885
		13885
		7804
		7487
Agriculture	Boksburg	133313
Agriculture	Boksburg	51433

Reply:

The response uses the perspective of Transaction Advisors in the context of financial advisors, accountants, business deal advisors, banks, insurance advisors, contract lawyers etc.

a) The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD)

Not applicable to DSBD in relation to financial transactions recorded on the financial systems.

b) Entities

Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA)

SEDA has not appointed transactional advisors for tenders for the period 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2016.

 

Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)

2014/2015 Financial Year

No	(i) Transactional Advisors/ Successful Bidder Name	(ii) Details	(iii) Pricing	(iv) Amount Paid
		Tender Number	Description	Tender Amount (VAT Incl)
1	Ethoss Performance Management (Pty) Ltd	FIN/003/2014	Appointment of a Financial Modelling	R1 937 480.16 (Expansion R306 743.22.00)	R 2 244 223.38

2015/2016 Financial Year

No	(i) Transactional Advisors/ Successful Bidder Name	(ii) Details	(iii) Pricing	(iv) Amount Paid
		Tender Number	Description	Tender Amount (VAT Incl)
1	1. Phakamani Debt Collection 2. Revenue Consulting 3. Ramatshila -Mugeri 4. IDP Tracing Service 5. Asili Risk Management 6. Kunene Ramapala	000/LEG/2015	Appointment of Debt Collection Agencies	Commission based Contract 15% exc VAT	R764 668.57 Refer to Annexure A, Table 1 for further details.
2	Matlotlo Group (Pty) Ltd	012/KCG/215	Appointment of service provider for Actuarial Service for Khula Credit Guarantee for period of three (3) years	R 1 855 350.00	R 1 009 430.10
3	Continuity SA (Pty) Ltd	013/CRO/2015	Appointment of External Business Continuity Management Service Provider	R 456 000.00	R 456 000.00

FY 2016/2017 Financial Year

No	(i) Transactional Advisors/ Successful Bidder Name	(ii) Details	(iii) Pricing	(iv) Amount Paid
		Tender Number	Description	Tender Amount (VAT Incl)
1	Mthente Research Projects	08/CRO/2016	Conducting Annual Review of Small Business & Cooperatives	R 1 250 516.92	R 625 258.48
2	Panel of Mentors	07/PIM/2016	Panel of Mentors	Based on approved Professional Rate	R 511 655.45

Reply:

The percentage of invoices paid within the prescribed 30 days were:

(a) In the past three years as follows:

(i) 2014-15 was 90% (PMTE) and 89% (DPW)

(ii) 2015-16 was 85% (PMTE) and 75% (DPW)

(iii) 2016-17 was 87% (PMTE and 90% (DPW)

(b) Since 1 April 2017 as follows:

(i) April was 87% (PMTE) and 98% (DPW)

(ii) May was 84% (PMTE) and 87% (DPW)

(iii) June was 84% (PMTE) and 88% (DPW)

(iv) July was 84% (PMTE) and 98% (DPW)

(v) August was 85% (PMTE) and 93% (DPW)

(vi) September was 85% (PMTE) and 94 (DPW)

(vii) October was 82% (PMTE) and 90% (DPW)

Reply:

(1) Three officials were granted permission to have businesses in the past three financial years.

(2) All three requests for approval were not for business with the state or its organs.

I wish to point out to the Honourable Member that employees are prohibited from doing business with the state or its organs. Incidentally, it was during my tenure as Minister of Public Service and Administration that the Public Administration Management Act of 2013 which introduced the prohibition was drafted, processed through Cabinet and Parliament and was enacted by the President in 2013.

Honourable Member, the prohibition referred to above is currently enforceable through section 13 (c) of the Public Service Regulations. The said section stipulates that an employee shall not conduct business with any organ of state or be a director of a public or private company conducting business with an organ of state, unless such an employee is in an official capacity a director of a company listed in schedule 2 and 3 of the Public Finance Management Act”.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

In terms of the Public Service Regulations 13 (c), “An employee shall not conduct business with any organ of state or be a director of a public or private company conducting business with an organ of state, unless such an employee is in an official capacity a director of a company listed in schedule 2 and 3 of the Public Finance Management Act”;

Further, in terms of the Public Service Regulations 24, “An application by an employee to perform remunerative work outside his or her department shall be in accordance with the process determined by the Minister and in the form issued by the Minister.”

Accordingly, a Directive on Conducting Business with an Organ of State was issued in January 2017 by the Minister for Public Service and Administration.

 

Reply:

1. South Africa’s response to cyber threats and in particular the role played by SSA in mitigating the impact of cyber-attacks in the country is articulated in the National Cyber-security Policy Framework (NCPF) for South Africa approved by the Cabinet in March 2011.

2. The Cyber Security Centre (CSC) in the SSA has been established as an initiative of Government to anticipate where cyber-attacks in the country or to national critical information infrastructure (NCIIs) may originate with a view to adapting defence strategies in order to mitigate the impact and respond to new cyber threats. The aim is to provide cyber situational analysis and a coordinated approach to incident response; and to promote cyber security knowledge and awareness.

3. The CSC underlines Government’s determination to provide enhanced and integrated readiness to mitigate cyber security threats and attacks in the country in a bid to maintain the country safe and secure. The current centre is meant to provide a coordinated response to cyber incidents affecting national security and in doing so it is envisioned to be augmented by other structures in the country such as the Government CSIRT (Gov. CSIRT), Cyber Security Hub (CSH), National Cybercrime Centre (NCC), Cyber Command (CC) and sector CSIRTs.

Reply:

(1) On 24 January 2017, I was informed of the water crisis pending drought disaster not limited to the Butterworth Hospital but for the entire Butterworth in the Eastern Cape. The Amathole District Municipality (DM) re-declared the drought in January 2017.

(2) Yes, essential services such as the Provincial Department of Health was kept abreast of the unfolding disaster through stakeholder meetings which included the Provincial Drought Technical Task Team, Provincial Sector Departments meetings and Joint Operation Committee meetings held in Butterworth where they were requested to make their own intervention plans as the Amathole DM made it clear that it would not have the capacity to provide the full water demand.

(3) Weekly dam levels have been provided by the Department to the Amathole DM and Provincial Disaster Management Centre. When the situation at Xilinxa Dam supplying Butterworth and surrounding areas became alarming, it was anticipated that it will have serious effect on the hospital and other institutions such as the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) campus. Regular drought water crisis meetings were held with the Amathole DM as the Water Services Authority and other key stakeholders, where they were requested to provide the drought intervention plans.

When the surface water supply to Butterworth (Xilinxa Dam and Gcuwa Dam) ran out completely, the Amathole DM prioritised carting of water to the Hospital. Owing to the logistics and costs of carting water from the nearest alternative source some 30km away, the Amathole DM was unable to meet the full demand at the hospital as well as to provide basic supply to all domestic consumers in Butterworth.

My Department has conducted drought awareness campaigns in Butterworth and has granted permission to the Amathole DM for the re-allocation of the Water Services Infrastructure Grant (WSIG) funding to accommodate emergency water supply in Butterworth through the Butterworth Emergency Water Supply Scheme (pipeline from Tsomo River to Xilinxa Dam), water tankering and groundwater investigations, namely, hydrogeological investigations, drilling, testing and equipping of boreholes at Butterworth, Kotana, Ehlobo, Teko Springs and WSU.

My Department approached the Office of the Premier, Provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) and Provincial Treasury; as a result an amount of R 3 million has been pledged to assist Amathole DM with the drought.

Fortunately the water outage was short lived and the rain which fell from
8 to 9 October 2017 brought relief and the Gcuwa Dam was filled, but the Xilinxa Dam only rose to 7%, which will provide approximately 3 months supply. Butterworth is therefore not out of the crisis yet and needs close monitoring hence my Department has allocated Amathole DM with ten water tankers.

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Reply:

Compensation Fund has only one outstanding invoice to the value of R76 402, 80

CCMA has two outstanding invoices to the value of R75 019.61

Reply:

1. The alleged investigation, as referred to in the article, does not fall within the ambit of State Security.

2. The SSA further does not interfere in the lawful investigations of other mandated departments.

3. Furthermore, the Minister of State Security cannot be expected to act upon every single media article that is published.

Reply:

The following are metros in respect to the question with their respective registered volumes:

Name	Province
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality	Eastern Cape
City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality	Western Cape
City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality	Gauteng
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality	Gauteng
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality	Gauteng
eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality	KwaZulu-Natal
Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality	Free State
Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality	Eastern Cape

Registered Water User	Sum of Registered Volume (cubic metres): For 01 Jan 2017 to 31 Dec 2017
BUFFALO CITY	72 310 000
CITY OF CAPE TOWN METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY	317 700 000
EKURHULENI METROPOLITAN COUNCIL	60 000
ETHEKWINI MUNICIPALITY	1 417 520
MANGAUNG METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY	14 957 254
NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY	132 443 822
TSHWANE METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY	134 875 283
Grand Total	673 763 879

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Reply:

1. The request from the Stellenbosch Municipality for the release of Erf 64, Kylemore is dated 02 September 2013 and the request for the release of the Remaining Extent of Farm 1339 and 1158/1, La Motte, Franschhoek is dated 15 May 2015, both received in the form of intergovernmental correspondence by post.

2. The Department is in discussion with the Stellenbosch Municipality and relevant Human Settlements entities in relation to the funding that is required for the purchase of these land parcels. It is also finalsing other investigations into its own requirement for these properties so as to arrive at an informed decision on their use.

3. The Municipality will be infomed of the decisions on the disposal of the properties upon completion of the relevant feasibility studies and confirmation of funding by the Municipality and / or relevant Human Settlements enties. It is anticipated that the requests will be processed within the current financial year.

Reply:

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Reply:

The below response is based on the information provided by the Municipal Demarcation Board:

1. No.

2. The Municipal Demarcation Board conducted “formal investigations” in terms of the Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998 on all the cases, which included the consideration of the capacity of municipalities.

Reply:

The investigation into Edenvale, CAS 108/06/2017, has been finalised. All the statements were obtained and the case was remanded to 2018-03-14, for trial. The witnesses will be subpoenaed, during January 2018.

Reply:

The Republic of South Africa’s national security, economic prosperity and social wellbeing is critically dependent on Information Communication Technology (ICT) that is safe and secure. Big and small enterprises, governments, as well as private internet users are facing similar threats in cyberspace.

The South African Police Service (SAPS), recognises, as a high priority, the value of being able to detect, prevent, combat and investigate the pervasive cybercrime threat and in particular, cyber-attacks on critical information infrastructure.

The protection of critical infrastructure, such as electricity, transportation and banking against cyber threats is essential to our daily lives and the vulnerability to attack and exploitation of these systems is a real threat.

The SAPS therefore created capacities and capabilities, strengthened by continuous interaction and co-operation with intelligence agencies, International Law Enforcement Agencies and Prosecutorial Authorities, to provide a national, co-ordinated response to the most serious incidents of cybercrime occurrences.

The SAPS has well equipped cyber investigation support centres at national level, capable of providing digital forensic support in cybercrime and cyber-related investigations. These capabilities are also available in some provinces and the current focus is to ensure the roll-out to all provinces.

Furthermore, the SAPS and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), are engaged in a research project, to continuously enhance strategies and training frameworks to effectively detect, combat, prevent and investigate cybercrime.

Reply:

I have been informed by Department as follows:

1. Nineteen (19) employees were granted permission to perform remunerative work outside the public service (RWOPS) in the past three financial years.

2. No.

(a) N/A

(b) N/A

(c) N/A

Approved/ not approved

Dr Siyabonga Cwele, MP

Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services

Date:

Reply:

1 (a) Yes, the services were procured from the specified company for the period 1 May 2015 to 31 October 2017

(i) Service	(ii) Total Amount
Air Transport	R 77 283 895.71
Accommodation	R 82 517 500.88
Car Rental	R 15 234 830.88
Venues and Facilities	R 15 777 348 64
Other Ground Transport e.g. busses, trains, shuttles	R 10 401 254.31

REPLY: To 2

2 (a) Yes, the specified company did provide services related to international travel to the following officials:

(i) Who Travelled	(ii) What was the Travel Route	(iii) How much was Paid
Vilakazi Nkululeko Nkosi Ngiphile	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 59 470.72
Vilakazi Nkululeko Nkosi Ngiphile	Johannesburg - Maputo - Johannesburg	R 6 974.72
Vilakazi Nkululeko Nkosi Ngiphile	Johannesburg - Maputo - Johannesburg	R 7 266.72
Vilakazi Nkululeko Nkosi Ngiphile	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City- Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo-Johannesburg	R 74 427.72
Blackmore John	Johannesburg - Maputo - Johannesburg	R 6 644.72
Gwazube Mfezeko	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City - Havana – Panama City - Sao Paulo- Johannesburg	R 74 428.00
Gwazube Mfezeko	Johannesburg - Maputo - Johannesburg	R 7 265.00
Gwazube Mfezeko	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo – Mexico City -Sao Paulo - Johannesburg	R 88 236.72
Tshabalala Magdeline	Johannesburg – New York – Mexico City –Washington - Johannesburg	R 89 142.00
Molefe Percy	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 5 997.00
Molefe Percy	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 7 305.00
Molefe Percy	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havanna - Panama City - Sao Paulo - Johannesburg	R 74 428.00
Molefe Percy	Johannesburg – Frankfurt - Paris –Frankfurt –J ohannesburg	R 22 776.23
Molefe Percy	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 33 510.00
Molefe Percy	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 5 916.00
Lindie Berenise Felicity	Johannesburg – New York – Mexico City-Washington - Johannesburg	R 89 337.00
Dlabantu Mziwonke	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 7 853.00
Dlabantu Mziwonke	Johannesburg – Paris – Munich – Paris - Johannesburg	R 72 094.00
Dlabantu Mziwonke	Johannesburg - Beijing - Shanghai - Beijing - Johannesburg	R 80 499.00
Dlabantu Mziwonke	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 57 909.00
Dlabantu Mziwonke	Johannesburg - Dar Es Salaam -Dodoma - Dar Es Salaam – Nairobi - Johannesburg	R 47 916.00
Barlow Albertina	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 7 265.00
Barlow Albertina	Johannesburg – Paris - London – Addis Abbeba – Johannesburg	R 71 452.00
Kele Nomini	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 7 853.00
Viljoen Deon	Johannesburg - Paris - Turin - Paris - Johannesburg	R 55 791.00
Nxesi Thembelani	Johannesburg – Accra – Abidjan – Cotonou - Johannesburg	R 44 582.00
Nxesi Thembelani	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 93 333.00
Nxesi Thembelani	Johannesburg – Frankfurt – Paris – Istanbul – Johannesburg	R 120 745.00
Phiri Tebogo	Johannesburg - New York – Washington - Johannesburg	R 20 358.72
Manzini Vangile	Johannesburg-Lusaka-Johannesburg	R 8 159.00
Manzini Vangile	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City –Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 74 228.00
Ngubo Nombini	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 93 333.00
Lewis Jonathan	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 93 333.00
Nxesi Nombulelo	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 93 953.00
Machaba Mpelegeng Kate	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 69 425.00
Galane Madimetsa Wilbert	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 69 425.00
Ndou Azwinndini Jeremiah Dingaan	Johannesburg - Sao Paulo - Panama City – Havana - Panama City - Sao Paulo -Johannesburg	R 101 803.00
Ngwenya Lorraine	Johannesburg - Dar Es Salaam - Dodoma-Dar Es Salaam - Johannesburg	R 21 657.00
Ngwenya Lorraine	Johannesburg - Lusaka - Johannesburg	R 8 159.00
Sokhela Siboniso	Johannesburg - Lusaka –J ohannesburg	R 8 159.00
Henderson Stanley	Johannesburg - Hong Kong – Manila -Hong Kong - Johannesburg	R 36 899.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg – Maputo - Johannesburg	R 6 766.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg - Hong Kong – Beijing -Johannesburg	R 71 290.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 45 066.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg – Dubai – Paris – Dubai -Johannesburg	R 43 688.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg - Dakar – Conakry – Dakar -Johannesburg	R 108 870.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg - London - Johannesburg	R 84 431.00
Thobakgale Makgothi Samuel	Johannesburg - Dar Es Salaam – Dodoma - Dar Es Salaam – Johannesburg	R 19 827.00
Mosegomi Sue	Johannesburg - Hong Kong - Beijing - Johannesburg	R 73 110.00
Mosegomi Sue	Johannesburg - Doha – Shanghai – Doha - Johannesburg	R 19 629.00
Mosegomi Sue	Johannesburg – Beijing - Hong Kong -Johannesburg	R 17 343.00
Govender Mahalingum	Johannesburg – Beijing - Hong Kong -Johannesburg	R 38 373.00
Lukwago-Mugerwa Rosemary Pearl	Johannesburg - Hong Kong – Manila -Hong Kong – Johannesburg	R 11 286.00
Linda Felix Mampuru	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 12 433.00
Linda Felix Mampuru	Johannesburg – Paris - Munich – Paris -Johannesburg	R 34 399.00
Linda Felix Mampuru	Johannesburg - Doha – Seoul – Doha -Johannesburg	R 15 460.00
Crafford Johannes	Johannesburg - Paris – Johannesburg	R 13 183.00
Mabuso Makgwadi Elliot	Johannesburg – Paris - Munich – Paris -Johannesburg	R 34 399.00
Mabuso Makgwadi Elliot	Johannesburg - Paris – Johannesburg	R 13 494.00
Mabuso Makgwadi Elliot	Johannesburg - Frankfurt - Paris –Frankfurt - Johannesburg	R 24 776.00
Mabuso Makgwadi Elliot	Johannesburg - Dakar – Conakry - Dakar -Johannesburg	R 104 819.00
Mabuso Makgwadi Elliot	Johannesburg - London - Johannesburg	R 16 140.00
Mokuoane Molikeng Joseph	Johannesburg - Paris - Munich - Paris -Johannesburg	R 34 399.00
Mokuoane Molikeng Joseph	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 12 493.00
Mokuoane Molikeng Joseph	Johannesburg - Dakar – Conakry – Dakar - Johannesburg	R 71 509.00
Mokuoane Molikeng Joseph	Johannesburg – Mauritius - Paris –Mauritius - Johannesburg	R 17 739.00
Sazona Mzwandile	Johannesburg – Frankfurt - Paris –Frankfurt - Johannesburg	R 33 510.00
Mudumela Khangala	Johannesburg - Zurich - Paris – Zurich -Johannesburg	R 58 699.00
Xulu ka Dlamini Lindelani Mfundo	Johannesburg - Paris - Johannesburg	R 15 827.00
Moraba Thapelo	Johannesburg – Dubai - Paris – Dubai -Johannesburg	R 17 076.00
Moraba Thapelo	Johannesburg – London - Johannesburg	R 16 140.00
Moeng Thomas	Johannesburg - Ndola - Johannesburg	R 9 048.00
Thobejane Kganki	Johannesburg - Ndola - Johannesburg	R 9 048.00
Motsoeneng Mamalo Bernice	Johannesburg - Doha – Seoul-Doha-Johannesburg	R 15 460.00
Opperman Landie	Johannesburg - Doha – Seoul - Doha-Johannesburg	R 15 460.00
Rametse Tebogo	Johannesburg - Doha – Seoul – Doha -Johannesburg	R 15 460.00
Mtwa Noliswi Wendy	Johannesburg - Dar Es Salaam -Dodoma - Dar Es Salaam – Nairobi - Johannesburg	R 33 793.00
Romero Flores Maria Elena	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Palu Aponte Neda Iris	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Ojeda Hechavarria Isabel Greter	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Suarez Garcia Naylet	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Rodriguez Camejo Josue Raul	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Lafranqui Francis Rafael Eusebio	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Nunez Yanez Yusayn	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Rodriguez Torres Teodoro Salvador	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Guilarte Campos Manuel Dejesus	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Dominguez Castro Francisco Eugenio	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Font Palomo Ivelin	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Reyes Reynosa Rolando	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Gonzalez Mompeller Yuri	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Zamora Destrades Zaide	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Perez Tejera Leslie Barbara	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Guerrero Rondon Odalys Hermis	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Palacios Bueno Hilda Nerys	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Perez Dorta Yunieskis	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Porto Pina Yunier	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Blaterau Pena Yordan	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Marquez Ramirez Yoan	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Abaroa Bolona Yasmin	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Mendez Rivera Yanilvia	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Varon Tamayo Walter Humberto	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Fonse Camerino Noemi	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Portuondo Rodriguez Mirna Caridad	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Batista Fernandez Luis Enrique	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Matos Sanchez Julio Augusto	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Oliva Montero Joaquin Ernesto	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Amores Perez Javier	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Canovas Ruiz Isabel Margarita	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Peralta Cabarcos Georgina Francisca	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Garcia Rubio Fernando Angel	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Serrano Fernandez Eloyeu Femio	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Treto Gonzalez Dietter	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Cabrera Huerta Dagoberto	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Perez Vaquero Ana Esperanza	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Perez Cardoso Alexis Julian	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
Moreno Garcia Rene Roberto	Havana – Madrid – Johannesburg – Madrid - Havana	R 49 607.23
TOTAL		R 5 138 433.52

REPLY:

(b) DEPARTMENTAL ENTITIES

(1) (2)

Not applicable to the following entities:

• THE COUNCIL FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (CBE) AND
• AGREMENT SOUTH AFRICA (ASA)

INDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT TRUST (IDT)

Yes.

(i) Events and Travel Management

(ii) R109 942 513, 83

(2) (b) (i) (ii) (iii)

The IDT is collating and verifying the information for this part of the question, and the entity has requested to submit the information on 01 December 2017.

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT BOARD (CIDB)

The CIDB is experiencing challenges in accessing information from travel with flair and therefore requesting an extension to submit on 01 December 2017.

Reply:

My official car was not involved in an accident in the 2016/17 financial year.

(a) to (f) Fall away.

 

Reply:

1. The project in question is being implemented by the Mopani District Municipality and it is funded through Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) which is being administered by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA). The Department of Water and Sanitation was only involved during the recommendation of the Technical Report submitted to source funding for the project. The Technical Report was approved in 2013 and the following scope of work was completed by the Mopani District Municipality:

• (a) New 5.94km long 400mm diameter steel pipeline starts from the connection point at Parma to the water treatment works site in Hoedspruit. The original scope of works as contained in the Technical Report was to treat raw water at Hoedspruit Water Treatment Works that was proposed to be built, however; the water will now be sourced from Blyde River and be treated at the new treatment works situated at Kampersrus.

2. Refer to the response provided in (1) above.

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Reply:

The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available within the Department. The Department has, however, since engaged the municipality in question to provide this information and therefore will submit to you as soon as it becomes available.

Reply:

(a) The Department is putting Norms and Standards for waste separation at source in 2018/19. The administrative and criminal enforcement would be carried out by Environmental Management Inspectors as empowered by the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, Act No 59 of 2008. However, municipalities that have made separation of waste at source mandatory as part of their by-laws have enforcement powers that they can also exercise accordingly.

(b) The Department is bound by the Constitution to support those that fail to meet the Norms and

Standards however criminal enforcement can be considered as a last resort in keeping with
co-operative governance.

In terms of the co-operative governance approach, the Department will endevour to assist those to come into compliance. Enforcement will be considered as the last resort to ensure compliance with the Norms and Standards.

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Reply:

The Department of Cooperative Governance (DCOG) established a multi-sectoral structure that coordinates the drought and water scarcity situation in the country. The National Joint Drought Coordination Committee (NJDCC) is operational and responsible for the coordination of drought and water scarcity conditions, response and intervention measures. The committee is made up of the following key stakeholders:

• • Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA),
  • Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF),
  • Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS),
  • Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR),
  • Department of Health (DOH),
  • Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA),
  • Department of Labour (DOL),
  • Department of Transport (DOT),
  • South African National Defense Force (SANDF)
  • Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) and
  • South African Weather Service (SAWS)
  • Provincial Disaster Management Centres

Additional to the NJDCC, the Provincial Intervention Task Teams (PITT), which comprise relevant organs of state within the three spheres of government, were established to directly engage and consult provinces and municipalities to interrogate their mitigation and response plans and also mobilise resources in line with each organ of state’s mandate. The Western Cape Province was visited and engaged to mobilise resources to address the drought and water scarcity situation. It is important to indicate that the Provincial Disaster Management Centers participates in the NJDCC to ensure proper coordination within sector departments, support to the municipalities and provide progress reports on the situation.

The NJDCC reports to the Inter-Ministerial Task Team (IMTT), led by the Minister of Cooperative Governance, Mr Des Van Rooyen, on drought and water scarcity conditions for political oversight and guidance response and recovery measures within the country. The department further coordinates and ensure integration through the MINMEC structure.

Reply:

1. None

2. My Department has not used Travel with Flair services 2016- 2017 for Main Account and Water Trading Entity (WTE).

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Reply:

The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available in the Department. The Department has, however, engaged the Provincial Departments responsible for Local Government to obtain the relevant information from the municipalities. The information will be submitted to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available.

Reply:

Name of Entity	1 (a)	1 (b)	2	2 (a)	(b) (i)	(ii)
Agrément South Africa (ASA)	The Chief Executive Officer is on acting capacity with no fixed term contract			Mr Joe Odhiambo	2008	Till the end of the current financial year The entity is currently on the finalisation of appointment of the CEO
		The Chief Financial Officer is appointed permanently	Not Applicable	Mrs. Inge Vieira	1 August 2017	Not Applicable
Council for the Built Environment (CBE)	The Chief Executive Officer is not appointed permanently		The Chief Executive Officer is appointed on a fix term contract	Ms Priscilla Mdlalose	01st October 2017	30 October 2022
		The Chief Financial Officer is not appointed permanently	The Chief Financial Officer is appointed on a fixed term contract	Mr Clifton Changfoot	16th March 2015	30 March 2018.
Construction Industry Development Board(CIDB)	The Chief Executive Officer is not appointed permanently		The Chief Executive Officer is appointed on a fix term contract	Mr Mfezeko Gwazube	01 February 2017	31 January 2018
		The Chief Financial Officer is not appointed permanently	The Chief Financial Officer is appointed on a fixed term contract	Mr Sfiso Nsibande	29 March 2016	When a permanent CFO is appointed
						Additional Comments The current Board extended term of Office expires on 31 January 2018.It is anticipated that the new Board will fill in the vacancy of the CEO in February / March and the new CEO will appoint his/her executives shortly thereafter. In order to expedite the recruitment process, all the positions have already been advertised and upon the completion of appointment process of the new Board, the filling of these vacancies will be handed over to them, therefore the exact dates cannot be confirmed, but will however be given high priorities.
Name of Entity	1 (a)	1 (b)	2	2 (a)	(b) (i)	(ii)
Independent Development Trust(IDT)	The Chief Executive Officer is not appointed permanently		The Chief Executive Officer is appointed on a fix term contract	Mr Coceko Pakade	01 April 2015	31 March 2020
		The Chief Financial Officer is not appointed permanently	The Chief Financial Officer is appointed on a fix term contract	Ms Nicky Mogorosi	04 January 2016	31 December 2020.

Reply:

The information requested by the Honourable Member is not readily available in the Department. The Department has, however, engaged the Provincial Departments responsible for Local Government to obtain the relevant information from the municipalities. The information will be submitted to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available.

Reply:

1. The Economic Development Department has procured services from Travel with Flair (TWF) in the 2016/17 financial year. The following services were procured: air travel (domestic and international), car rental, accommodation, shuttle services, and conference venues. The total amount paid in service fees to the company amounted to R 203 541.

2. The international visits were as follows:

• Rwanda – World Economic Forum Africa (Minister Patel and support staff Dr DM Pule)
• Iran – State Visit (Minister Patel and support staff Dr DM Pule)
• Papau New Guinea – Summit of African Caribbean and Pacific Countries (Minister Patel and support staff Mr D Nkosi)
• Switzerland – World Economic Forum (Minister Patel and support staff Miss A Appolis)
• Vietnam and Singapore – Deputy President Bilateral Visit (Deputy Minister Masuku and support staff Ms S Shongwe)

A total amount of R 4 253 in service fees was paid to TWF for the travels. In each visit, the Minister or Deputy Minister were accompanied by one (1) official.

3. Entities reporting to the department (IDC, Competition Commission, Competition tribunal, ITAC) did not make use of TWF services.

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Reply:

a) The Determination and Directive on Leave of Absence in the Public Service as prescribed by the Department of Public Service and Administration is utilised. An employee must submit his/her application for annual leave in advance, unless unforeseen circumstances prevent him/her from doing so. If confronted with unforeseen circumstances which necessitate the utilization of annual leave, the employee must personally notify his/her supervisor/manager immediately. A verbal message to the supervisor/manager by a relative, fellow employee or friend is only acceptable if the nature and/or extent of the unforeseen circumstances prevents the employee from informing the supervisor/manager personally.

An employee must submit an application for annual leave personally or through a relative, fellow employee within 5 working days after the first day of absence. If the employee fails to submit the application on time or compelling reasons why an application cannot be submitted, the supervisor/manager must immediately notify the employee that if such application is not received within 2 working days, the leave period will be regarded as unpaid leave; and inform the Human Resource division.

Should the employee default on the notification the relevant authority shall approve such absence as unpaid leave. The employee’s supervisor/manager/ Head of Department and/or his/her delegate must within two working days from receipt of the leave application form recommend/not recommend and/or approve/disapprove this leave application and submit to the relevant Human Resource division in the department.

b) Manual system for submission of leave is utilised. The capturing of leave and the management of leave credits are done on PERSAL (Personnel and Salary Administration System).

c) Each Unit has a leave administrator that submit on a weekly basis leave forms to HR with a leave register. HR checks the leave forms and registers as well as the leave captured for compliance with the relevant legislation. Reminders to submit leave timeous to HR are send every quarter to the whole Department to ensure that the system is always updated. Units that submit leave late are informed and repeat offenders are reported to Branch Heads. Disciplinary action can in terms of the Determination and Directive on Leave of Absence be taken against the employee and manager.

 

Reply:

1(a). The vacancy rates of the Department for the past three financial years are as follows:

(i) 2014/15 - (21.6%)

2015/16 - (15.3%)

2016/17 - (16.03%)

(ii) As at 01 April 2017 the vacancy of the Department was 16.03%

(b). The department is currently in a transition; migrating from the old to the newly approved organisational structures and is therefore not able to provide the current and accurate number of vacancies for critical occupations. However, the number of critical vacancies as at 31 March 2017 was as follow:

Critical occupations	Number of posts vacant
Architects town and traffic planners	13
Chemical and physical science technicians	3
Civil engineering technicians	9
Electrical and electronics engineering technicians	3
Engineering science related	38
Engineers and related professionals	28
Mechanical engineering technicians	0
Quantity surveyors and related professionals not classed elsewhere	10
TOTAL	104

(c) The non-filling of positions was as a result of the scarcity of skills and the review of the organisational structure. The organisational structures were approved 30 September 2016 and the Department is finalizing the migration processes in terms of matching and placement.

2. Yes, critical vacancies have a negative impact on the mandate of the department as they hamper on service delivery. The department is employing retired professionals to close the skills gaps and provide mentorship to candidate professionals.

Reply:

a) The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) has entered into 28 partnership agreements to date. The institutions partnered with encompass public, private and international organisations. The composition is as follows:

Type	No
i) Public/Government Entities	15
ii) Private entities	8
iii) International Organizations	5

(b)&(d) Details of agreements are as follows:

(i) Public / Government entities signed agreements
No	(b) Name of Department /Entity	(d) Outcomes or envisaged outcomes of the agreements
1.	Department of Public Enterprises (DPE)	Market Access opportunities for SMMEs and Co-operatives in the SOCs procurement value chains.
2.	Department of Tourism	Development of Start-ups, small and black operators and provide market access opportunities and relevant capacity building.
3.	Department of Social Development (DSD)	Collaboration with the intention taking social grants beneficiary out of indigent register through the creation of business opportunities and identification of appropriate markets and capacity building.
4.	Department of Defence (DoD)	Facilitate Co-operatives registration and training, facilitate Co-operatives funding, and identification of earmarked commodities and services for SMMEs and co-operatives.
5.	Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR)	Development of rural and peri-urban enterprises and link them to specific programmes within DSBD agency network for support.
6.	Road Traffic Infringement Agency	Selection of enterprises to manage pilot phase for Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) offices finalised. Selection interviews were held in 10 cities country wide (Polokwane, Ekurhuleni, Durban, Mafikeng, Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, Mbombela, Cape Town and Bloemfontein).
7.	Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS)	Identification of enterprises that are developing new telecommunication ventures and technologies, link them to various support and market opportunities. This has been linked to the partnership with SETA. The recent GovTech Conference hosted by SITA, had a major focus on SMME’s in general across all tracks with a specific focus in the Economic Cluster track facilitated by DSBD. The track focused on two of the key challenges facing SMME’s, namely: a lack of access to markets for SMME's and limited support for commercialisation of innovation by SMME’s. These deliberations yielded numerous outcomes with proposed delivery dates which will be driven by a task team.
8.	Department of Labour (DoL)	Identify and support small businesses and cooperatives that can participate in the following: DoL training on safety programmes; and Productivity South Africa programmes. Identify SMMEs and cooperatives that are eligible to benefit from the DoL rescue programmes and DoL procurement opportunities. DoL has also offered free training to Informal Business.
9.	Department of Public Works (DPW)	Development of Small Contractors and identify new markets such and property development and maintenance for participation by small businesses. In particular, the Department has successfully piloted and launched a model of creating businesses for beneficiaries exiting the Expanded Public Works Programme, setting them up with Cooperatives linking them with off-take agreements
10.	Department of Science and Technology (DST)	To identify areas of technological support and improvement to enhance competitiveness and sustainability of SMMEs to access opportunities in both local and international market value chains. Co-funding ICT start-ups in the French-SA Tech Labs and will co- host the SMME and Innovation Fund.
11.	Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA)	To develop SMME’s and Co-operatives that will partake in the value – chains of environmental sector (such as but not limited to the bio - prospecting, wildlife subsectors and waste sub – sectors). Cross-cutting opportunities identified in the Chemicals and Waste Economy Phakisa.
12.	Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ)	Development of small scale service providers approved for contracts with JCPZ. 8 cooperatives from JCPZ were approved for Co-operatives Incentive Scheme (CIS). They were all assisted with equipment for grass cutting and a vehicle to the tune of R 350 000 per cooperative to service the contracts provided by JCPZ (grass cutting).
13.	Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (MERSETA)	To provide capacity building for the informal businesses through the training and mentorship programmes within the manufacturing, engineering and related service sectors.
14.	Wholesale and Retail Sector Education and Training Authority (W&RSETA)	Support the implementation of the Informal Traders Upliftment Programme (ITUP) through relevant training and mentorship. Trained 1060 businesses in 2015/16.

15.	Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority (EWSETA)	To provide capacity building for the informal businesses through the training and mentorship programmes within the manufacturing, engineering and related service sectors
(ii) Private entities signed agreements
No	(b) Organisation	(d) Outcomes or envisaged outcomes of the agreements
1	South African Breweries (SAB) Miller	Provide access to financial resources primarily through the WiM grant fund while leveraging; Develop skills of women farmers operating in underserved communities through training and mentorship; Share information for the benefit of the farmers; Increase farmer technical expertise for improved market competence; Provide access to market by guaranteeing purchase of apt output; Improve community livelihoods by increasing income; Form strengthened and sustainable co-operatives; Increase inclusion of Black Women Owned entities in SAB’s supply chain; and Stimulate local economies by increasing procurement from local suppliers. Crop 16: 1887 hectares planted. 4 Provinces participated: North West, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng. 11 farmers : 7 women. Crop 17 : 32 Women owned Cooperatives were supported from the programme. 4 Provinces participated in Crop 17: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Kwa-Zulu Natal and North West. Total Hectares planted for crop 17 = 1011. Planted in October 2016. A total of 160 jobs were created. Only 2 out of 13 farmers/coops harvested. Others will commence late June/early July 2017. Awaiting Farmsol to provide a financial report indicating their profit/loss. The 5 selected as part of Pick N Pay Supplier Development Programme failed to qualify for BBSDP due to inadequate financial performance. DSBD will alternatively facilitate funding through Start-up Enterprise Development Programme (SEDP).
2	Pick n Pay	To facilitate mentorship and coaching programmes for the development of the identified businesses and to build their institutional capacity; and facilitate market access linkages. 10 SMMEs have been identified and the list completed to link and Cooperatives linked to Pick ‘n Pay Procurement Opportunities.
3	International Labour Organization (ILO)	To provide technical assistance to the department to implement strategic projects such as SMME database, Chamber support programme, Red tape reduction and the Provincial Informal Business summits.
4	Bakgatla Tribal Authority	To establish a relationship with the Bakgatla Bagafela Tribal Authority to identify and support small businesses through our agency support network.
5	AfriGrow	To tab into the organisation’s capacity and expertise to enhance the development of SMMEs and Cooperatives in the agricultural sector.
6	Rustenburg Platinum Mines (PTY) Ltd	Leverage on the Enterprise and Supplier Development and Corporate Social Investment programmes to develop enterprises and social upliftment in the surrounding communities. A recent tripartite arrangement made with Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev to plough barley in the Tribal authority land in the said communities. Anglo Platinum has invested R45 Million for this project. Anglo through the tribal authority has committed 320 hectors to AB Inbev to plant barley. Negotiations on-going between DSBD, Anglo Platinum and AB Inbev in line with planting barley.
7	Sumitomo Rubber South Africa Pty (ltd)	To establish new businesses through containers that would provide tyres fitment and repair services. The current target is 33 businesses that comprise 20 containers and 13 express in targeted provinces (North West, Limpopo, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape).
8	NESTLE	To establish new businesses and support the existing ones by providing distribution opportunities of the Nestle products to informal retailers by SMMEs and cooperatives. The target for this financial year is 50 micro distributors with ultimate support of 350 enterprises by 2019. To date 43 have already been selected. To support to co-operatives and SMMEs through its various programmes, such as its Enterprise Development Programmes. Development of a “Route to Market” for the enterprises. Provincial Workshops: Holding of provincial workshops held on 05 June 2017 for North West, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and 09 June 2017 in Limpopo Province and Gauteng; 43 applications submitted for SEDP funding
(iii) International Organisations signed agreements
No	(b) Organisation	(d) Status: Implementation Plan
1	The Netherlands Government	Promotion of the development and growth of New Generation Cooperatives; Promotion of trade between South Africa and Netherlands; Provisioning of technical assistance to support the development of infrastructure to improve market efficiencies; and Assistance with education and technical training of cooperative members.
2	Deutschen Gernossenschafts – Fund Raiffenisenverband (DGRV)	Provisioning of Cooperative Governance and Book Keeping Training.
3	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)	Access to markets and capacity building for suppliers; Technical Assistance and support to DSBD capacity building activities; Access to finance for existing small businesses and cooperatives and potential suppliers; and Joint resource mobilisation for the Supplier Development Programme (SDP).
4	UN WOMEN	Market Access, Funding and Capacity Building for women SMMEs and Coops to access opportunities across various industries.
5	Masisizane Fund (MF)	Leveraging on the resources of each party and work together for the benefit of SMME’s and Co-operatives to benefit from MF Post Investment Programmes, soft loans and capacity building. DSBD will also consider projects supported by MF from various incentive schemes. A list of 29 projects has been consolidated for DSBD consideration (SMME’s and Co-operatives incentives). MF will be submitting 13 Co-operatives Incentive (CIS) application forms for all the Co-operatives they’ve supported for grant funding. DSBD is in a process of compiling SMME’s and Co-operatives to benefit from MF various Programmes; UJ is in a process of compiling business cases of SMMES that were referred by DSBD to be submitted at MF.

(c) The department signed agreements with public and private entities in order to provide both financial and non-financial support to SMMEs and Co-operatives, and they consist mainly of:

• Market opportunities in the procurement value chain;
• Funding; and
• Capacity building.

Reply:

I have been informed by SAPO as follows:

(a) 

• A total review of all operational activities was conducted and a duplicated process was identified. As a result, the function of sorting and dispatching mail items from Johannesburg International Mail Centre (JIMC) to Post Offices, has been moved to Mail Centres which are allocated around Gauteng. This has assisted JIMC in placing additional 20 staff members into their operations. The exercise had no cost implications.
• Additional six PC work stations were purchased at a cost of R90 000 to increase Capturing and Assessing processes. Ten printers were acquired at a cost of R90 000, to replace broken ones and for the new work stations. This has already been concluded.
• SAPO introduced dispatches on IPS system to Durban International Mail Centre (DIMC) and Capemail International Mail Centre (CIMC) in order to replace the aged Track and Trace system. CIMC and DIMC have already been implemented at no cost. They intend expanding this process to Witspos, Germiston and Tshwane Mail Centres at a cost of R245 000. This will be finalised in December 2017.
• The entity have started a Re-engineering process to establish crewing levels in line with a 24/7 operational window. They are currently operating night shift and weekend operations on overtime basis which cost R13 463 632 from April to November 2017, for JIMC, DIMC and CIMC.
• They have improved on the capturing process of items on the IPS system. SAPO used to capture the weight of items at an inception stage. This restricted processing outputs as capturing could only be done at work stations that had scales affixed to them. Only six work stations had scales affixed while the other 45 did not have scales. By moving the capturing of weights to a back office administration process, they are now capable of higher outputs on their capturing process of items as they are not restricted to using work stations with scales. No cost attached to this process and it has already been implemented.
• SAPO have reviewed the use of the Conveyor belt system within JIMC, in order to integrate the use of the belt with their current floor layout and process flow. They intend using the belt to eradicate demand of physical labour whereby, SAPO will use the belt within their process flow. An amount of R30 000, will be required to get the belt running.
• SAPO are currently in the process of changing the Expedited Mail Service (EMS) deliveries to Speed Service Couriers (SSC), in order to fulfil EMS Co-operative agreement. EMS must be delivered to the door and SAPO currently do not have capacity in terms of vehicles and drivers to fulfil this mandate nationally. In order to eradicate duplicate processes the door deliveries will be done by SSC. The process has already been implemented in Western Cape (WC), Eastern Cape (EC) and Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN). SAPO still need to conclude rollout to Central, Wits and Northern Regions. They will require an additional five IPS work stations at Speed Services within these regions at a cost of R125 000.

(b)

Initiatives	Amount
Six PC work stations were purchased at a cost	R90,000.00
Ten Printers	R90,000.00
IPS system	R245,000.00
Re-engineering process	R13,463,632.00
Conveyor belt system	R30,000.00
Five IPS work stations	R 125,000.00
Total	R14,043,632.00

(c) The process of purchasing 6 PC workstations and ten printers has already been concluded. The expansion of the International Parcel System (IPS) to Witspos, Germiston and Tshwane Mail Centre will be finalised in December 2017.The Reengineering process to establish crewing levels was started from April 2017 for JIMC, DIMC and CIMC. The use of the conveyor belt system will be concluded in March 2018. The process of changing the Expedited Mail Service (EMS) deliveries to Speed Service Couriers (SSC) is expected to be concluded during February 2018.

 

Approved/ not approved

Dr Siyabonga Cwele, MP

Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services

Date:

Reply:

I was requested by the President to represent him at the inauguration of the President of Chad. Accordingly, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation made travel arrangements concerning this trip.

Approved/ not approved

Dr Siyabonga Cwele, MP

Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services

Date:

Reply:

There was no new vehicle purchased for the Minister or the Deputy Minister in the 2016/17 financial year.

 

Reply:

1. (a) Leasing is encapsulated in the Property Management Empowerment Policy of the Department which is still being developed and consulted with various stakeholders.

(b) The policy will be signed and adopted before the end of the year. In addition the Department together with National Treasury developed a Standard Leasing Framework which will be approved soon.

2. (a) & (b) Yes in terms of the policy there will be a qualifying criteria in accordance with BBBEE accreditation. The awarding of leasing opportunities and period of lease (tenure) will be aligned in accordance with BEE qualifications. The property sector code has been aligned to the generic codes of good practice in terms of the amended BBBEE Act to give effect to higher targets for Black Economic Empowerment in the property sector. The new Regulations for Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, were implemented on 01 April 2017 to give more weight to preferential points when evaluating the bids. In terms of the PPPFA budget can be allocated for set asides in the property environment to target designated groups.