Questions and Replies

Reply:

Yes. Reports on cases referred for diversion on the South African National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO) are long outstanding. Arrangements have been made with the Senior Public Prosecutor to communicate with the Department of Social Development to speed up the long outstanding diversion programme reports.

Reply:

The statement issued by the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane on 1 September 2016, on the work of the task team established to consider the implications of the decisions of certain banks and audit firms to close down the accounts and withdraw audit services from the company named Oakbay Investments, was issued in his personal capacity and not on behalf of the task team or Cabinet.

I reassured the public, the banking sector as well as domestic and international investors of Government’s unwavering commitment to the letter and spirit of the country’s Constitution as well as in the sound fiscal and economic fundamentals that underpin our economy.

I also informed parliament on 13 September that I was engaging Minister Zwane regarding his statement.

Reply:

At this stage no finality has been reached and there are no terms of reference or any other governance structure for the Council that has been finalised.

The Inter-Ministerial Committee chaired by Deputy President Ramaphosa remains responsible for overseeing the stabilisation and reform of state-owned entities.

The proposal to establish the Presidential SOCs Coordinating Council is aimed at assisting to ensure improved oversight and coordination of state owned companies.

Reply:

Air Traffic and Navigation Services SOC Limited (ATNS)

(a) Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) started to implement Enterprise Development (ED) initiatives in 2014 and spent about R11million for the financial year 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. The budget is in line with the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation which requires that 3% of the Net Profit After Tax (NPA) should be channelled towards Enterprise Development.

(b) In the financial year 2014/2015, ATNS supported Emerging Micro Enterprises (EMEs) where they were requested to register their business requirements through the ATNS website. ATNS furnished these suppliers with resources that they needed to be able to run their businesses; this enabled the respective suppliers to focus on their core businesses. In the financial year 2015/2016, ATNS focussed its Enterprise Development (ED) approach towards a more sustainable programme where the ED budget was channelled towards creating an Incubation Programme for twenty (20) Engineering Suppliers. The programme is intended to identify gaps and close them through relevant interventions.

(c) The programme is monitored by assessing how many suppliers have graduated from Enterprise Development to Supplier Development for both programmes.

(d) This programme yielded good outcomes in that the intention was that the beneficiaries should participate as active Suppliers to ATNS and some are already offering services to ATNS which means that they have already graduated from Enterprise Development to Supplier Development. This also helps in monitoring the number of those that are in the Supplier Development pool.

 

Reply:

(1)(a) PRASA operates within the legislated regulatory framework, all contracts for goods, services and works are acquired through proper Supply Chain Management processes. Procurement requirements are defined in the Procurement Plan with estimates costs for the provision of the required goods, services or works. This is in order to determine and stipulate the appropriate preference point system to be utilized in the evaluation and adjudication of the bids and to ensure that the prices paid are market related. Based on the procurement requirements, the relevant preference point system (80/20 or 90/10) to be utilized for the evaluation of the bid are specified in the bid documents

Contracts are acquired in any of the following competitive bid methods: Term contracts, Panel of service providers, and Public Private Partnership; whichever way procurement process is used, all acquisitions serve through conventional Bid Committees. In the preparation of the bid documents for an invitation it is determine if the required goods, service or works has been designated for local production and content in terms of Regulation 9 of the Preferential Procurement Regulations. This will entail the inclusion of a specific condition in the bid documents that only locally produced services, works or goods or locally manufactured goods with a stipulated minimum threshold for local production and content will be considered, subsequently it will have a direct impact on the evaluation of the bid.

All bids specifications are approved before issued to bidders. Bids received are evaluated as per the preference point system outlined in the approved specification. Depending on the functional criteria the weight and points are calculated using a prescribed formula system and ensure that evaluations of bids are fair and transparent. When we invite bids that will also be evaluated on the basis of functionality as a criterion, the following aspects in the bid documents are mandatory:

• Evaluation criteria for measuring functionality;
• Weight of each criterion;
• Applicable value; and
• Minimum qualifying score for functionality.

Once bids have been evaluated using the aforementioned criterion a contract is awarded to the bidder with the highest points as per the prescribed Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, Act 5 of 2000, and

(b) section 51 of the Public Finance Management Act, Act 1 of 1999 using basic Supply Chain Management principles.

(i) Number of Contracts awarded 01 April 2015 – 31 March 2016

Entity	BBBEE Level
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
Autopax-CPT	2	17	7	20	10	4	2	2	1	65
Autopax-HO	5	19	19	29	10		4			86
Autopax-JHB	5	15	13	32	16	4	5		2	92
Autopax-Pta	5	19	16	38	16	4	2	1	2	103
Intersite-HO	1	6	10	12	4	2	1			36
MetroRail-E-Cape	6	18	15	38	28	5	2	1	1	114
MetroRail-Gauteng	27	44	34	126	50	13	3	3	3	303
MetroRail-HO	1	13	13	45	11	5	1	2	1	92
MetroRail-KZN	5	40	34	64	43	11	14	3	3	217
MetroRail-W-Cape	5	48	47	62	43	5	3	1	1	215
Prasa Cres-Gauteng	9	37	14	99	37	1	1		1	199
Prasa Cres-Head Office	11	45	28	119	36	5	1	1	1	247
Prasa Cres-KZN	8	39	13	43	27	1		1	1	133
Prasa Cres-W.Cape	7	22	12	67	22	1			2	133
PRASA TECH HO	1	16	21	41	9	6	4	1	1	100
PRASA-HO	17	27	35	61	32	4	8	2	1	187
ShosMeyl-CPT	0	14	8	16	13	3	4	1	2	61
ShosMeyl-GP-South	5	24	6	47	11	6	1		2	102
ShosMeyl-HO	5	21	8	51	12	3	2		1	103
Total	125	484	353	1010	430	83	58	19	26	2589

(ii) Rand Value Contracts Awarded 01 April 2015 – 31 March 2016

Entity	Rand Value
	Total
Autopax-CPT	R 69 473 933.06
Autopax-HO	R 79 622 337.06
Autopax-JHB	R 170 091 612.00
Autopax-Pta	R 151 475 615.81
Intersite-HO	R 9 030 512.79
MetroRail-E-Cape	R 137 991 514.15
MetroRail-Gauteng	R 825 748 045.45
MetroRail-HO	R 630 731 669.79
MetroRail-KZN	R 319 624 039.75
MetroRail-W-Cape	R 357 997 773.69
Prasa Cres-Gauteng	R 264 009 908.79
Prasa Cres-Head Office	R 1 125 500 625.63
Prasa Cres-KZN	R 267 700 985.70
Prasa Cres-W.Cape	R 190 407 810.48
PRASA TECH HO	R 1 892 628 020.65
PRASA-HO	R 1 790 159 755.47
ShosMeyl-CPT	R 22 774 876.13
ShosMeyl-GP-South	R 97 763 179.60
ShosMeyl-HO	R 1 038 915 431.48
Total Spending	R 9 441 647 647.48

Reply:

I received an objection to the signing of the bill from the Progressive Professionals Forum. When I get petitioned not to sign a bill, I have to consider the merits of such objection focusing mainly on whether the interested parties raise valid constitutional issues.

It is not the first time that I have taken time to consider a bill for similar reasons. Currently, I have not signed the Expropriation Bill, the Private Security Industry Regulation Amendment Bill and the Protection of State Information Bill, because various parties petitioned me not to do so, citing concerns about their constitutionality. All these concerns are being looked into.

Reply:

The Presidency did not employ the services of Mchunu Attorneys to provide any form of legal advice and/or advisory services in respect of the mentioned Public Protector’s Reports. The briefing of any counsel or giving of instructions to any private attorneys to act on behalf of the President is done through the office of the state attorney.   

Reply:

The new full-strength Board brings a wealth of skills and expertise, making them well positioned to oversee the turnaround of the airline. These skills include: finance, risk management, treasury management, investment management, project management, business strategy, marketing and business management, legal, banking, stakeholder management, communication and social development.

Ms Duduzile Myeni was appointed by Cabinet as Chairperson. The Minister of Finance has stated publicly that the appointment of Ms Myeni, for a period of only one year, is aimed at ensuring continuity at the SAA.

Reply:

Yes, All Ministers enter into Performance Agreements with the President.

(a) The Performance Management Framework for Ministers is the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) for 2014-2019, which is the first 5-year implementation plan of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030. The performance targets and indicators are derived from the 14 Outcomes which government seeks to achieve.

These outcomes and targets constitute governments Programme of Action (POA), against which performance is tracked and reported at least on a quarterly basis. POA reports are publicly available on government’s websites.

(b) to (e) Cabinet closely monitors the implementation of the NDP 2030/MTSF 2014-2019 through POA Reports. These reports tabled before an Implementation Forum of a Cluster of Ministers collectively responsible for MTSF outcomes, and then submitted to Cabinet, where progress is noted, bottlenecks to implementation are discussed, and recommendations to address bottlenecks are considered and approved.

Reply:

The appointment of members of the National Executive of Government is the prerogative of the President of the Republic. Ministers and Deputy Ministers are well aware of the fact that they serve at the pleasure of the sitting President of the Republic.

Having said that, I would caution against the spreading of rumours of this nature. The Department functions well and continues to meet its mandate under the leadership of Minister Davies.

Reply:

a) Yes, SANRAL adheres to the applicable legislative prescripts including that of the PPPFA. However, the honourable member may recall an instance reported in the Annual Report under the Auditor General’s report that in the opinion of the AG it was not. This was reported and discussed in the Portfolio Committee in October 2015. The honourable member may recall that the difference of opinion related to the interpretation of the phrase “lowest acceptable price”. We make use of this opportunity to once again clarify the matter. It is brought to the attention of the honourable member that neither the PPPFA nor its Regulations define the phrase “lowest acceptable price”. The Regulations define the terms “comparative price, “firm price” and “non-firm price”.

The PPPFA Act (No. 5 of 2000) requires SANRAL to award contracts to the tenderer with the “lowest acceptable tender”. It has been SANRAL’s experience that when awarding a tender at the lowest price (at face value), where the objective is to promote the development of SMMEs, they either underprice with unviable tenders to get the job or the main contractors exploit the sub-contractors by pushing for unrealistic pricing. Moreover, this opens up opportunities for collusive practices.

SANRAL therefore developed and introduced a statistical method to establish the lowest acceptable price for each RRM contract. The tenderer with the price closest to this computed price was considered for award after giving due merit to other evaluation criteria such as preference points, including the price offered. Upon establishing the “price”, all tenders were further evaluated in accordance with the applicable regulations. Thus maintaining the requirements of the PPPFA. This discouraged collusion among contractors and ensured the sustainability of SMMEs. This method was in use for over 11 years – the AG was aware of the rationale and method of award and there were no findings from the AG and/or complaints from the contractors.

In 2013, for the first time, the AG raised the finding that the statistical methodology was not compliant with the requirements of the PPPFA Act. This is notwithstanding that the AG could not show in terms of which clause of the Act the statistical method was non-compliant. The AG also noted that that the method was used to protect SMMEs and recommended that SANRAL apply for an exemption from this applicable section of the PPPFA from the Minister of Finance which SANRAL did.

SANRAL applied for an exemption in terms of section 3(c) of the PPPFA. The rationale for the request was explained. The exemption was not granted. SANRAL requested for a condonation of the irregular expenditure subsequently, which was also not granted. Consequently, the AG’s report has included a note on irregular expenditure in this regard and will be noted till 2016.

Of importance is for the honourable member to note that:

• SANRAL has stopped awarding contracts on this basis, and has reverted to awarding contracts to the lowest price at face value, after due consideration of all other evaluation criteria; and

• the above has been explained to the Minister of Transport and to the Portfolio Committee on Transport as recent as October 2015 and other stakeholders who queried this.

• The honourable member is referred to the Annual Reports: Report of the auditor-general to Parliament on SANRAL.

(b) Yes, we have. (i) & (ii) Please see above.

 

Reply:

(a) Yes, the Airports Company South Africa has applied the preference points and prescribed formula system in the awarding of all contracts within supply chain and procurement as expressed in section 2(1)(a) of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act 5 of 2000 (“PPPFA”) and;

(b) Yes, the Airports Company South Africa has applied section 51(1)(a)(iii) of the Public Finance Management Act 1 of 1999 (“PFMA”), as amended.

   (i) A document has been attached illustrating the contracts that have been awarded from 01 April to 31 July 2016.

   (ii) The rand value of contracts is reported in the attached document referred to in (i) above.

Reply:

The Presidency was informed by the Public Protector that she has received complaints and requests that she should investigate this matter or related allegations.  The Public Protector’s investigation is still continuing.

Reply:

This refers to the above request as follows:

1. (a) Details of tenders issued/awarded in the past three financial years and (b) value of each specified tender.

Table 1 below illustrate details and values of tenders issued and awarded in the 2015/2016 financial year:

Table 1 below illustrate details and values of tenders issued and awarded in the 2015/2016 financial year:

Table 2 below illustrate details and values of tenders issued and awarded in the 2014/2015 financial year:

Table 3 below illustrate details of tenders issued and awarded in the 2013/2014 financial year.

2) 

• No tender was awarded in the past three financial year without following proper tender processes. The ATNS SCM Policy provides suppliers with the opportunity to compete for business in an open and transparent manner within the confines of the law.

       (a) No value of contract awarded without following proper tender process

       (b) No supplier was awarded a tender without following proper tender processes.

      (c) All contract followed the proper tender processes

Reply:

The Inter-Ministerial Committee chaired by Deputy President Ramaphosa remains responsible for overseeing the stabilisation and reform of state-owned entities. The IMC has proposed the establishment of a Presidential SOC Council. The proposal arises from the report of the Presidential SOE Review Council released in 2013, which called for the establishment of an SOE Council of Ministers.

The Council is aimed at ensuring improved oversight and coordination of state owned companies in the similar manner in which the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission coordinates infrastructure development across the three spheres of government or the IMC on Investment Promotion.

This IMC proposal is still to be discussed further in Cabinet. At this stage no finality has been reached and there are no terms of reference and no governance structure for the Council that has been finalised. Government welcomes any inputs from stakeholders on this important task of improving SOEs so that they assist in driving economic transformation and improve the lives of our people.

It should be noted that the work of coordinating structures is only to coordinate and supervise and ensure that all work together and not in isolation. It is not to directly run projects or takeover responsibilities of line function departments. The Department of Public Enterprises thus continues to perform its task as the shareholder to the state entities that report to it.

Reply:

(1) (a) (i) Legislative Policy Requirements Management

(ii) Information and Business Systems and Banking Services

(iii) Benefits and Local Economic Development

(iv) Change and Stakeholder Management

(v) Human Resource Management

(b) (i) The Legislative Policy Requirements Management is to provide comprehensive legal advice to SASSA and other in relation to the future Work Stream payment system focusing on legislative management policy requirements, contract development, design and

of the new system.

(ii) The Information and Business Systems and Banking Services is to facilitate for the insourcing of an ICT platform that will integrate the application of payment management system for social assistance and related social security benefits.

(iii) The Benefits and Local Economic Development is to identify the benefits and economic develop initiatives to be implemented with the delivery of the comprehensive security system.

(iv) The Change and Stakeholder Management is to provide guidance to the change management and stakeholder engagement.

(v) The Facilitate the development of integrated process that will support the new proposed functions to be institutionalized within SASSA.

(c) (i) and (ii) No staff member has been employed.

 

(2) (a) (i) and (ii) None

(b) Not applicable

(c) Not applicable

 

Reply:

In its adoption of the new approach towards Public Participation Programmes on 24 March 2010, Cabinet resolved that Ministers and Deputy Ministers are required to commit to at least ten (10) public engagements per year. These would include repeats and follow up visits and will be informed by their departmental outcomes and targets. The main focus of the public participation programmes was on rural areas, townships and villages.

Minister Adv. Ngoako Ramatlhodi

01 June 2016.

Engagement with young unemployed graduates in the Eastern Cape Province was held in Mdantsane Sisa Dukashe Stadium. The Minister’s engagement was to assist graduates into candidacy programme as the launch of Youth Month.

09 June 2016

In partnership with the NYDA, SETA’s, Department of labour and Private Sector, the Minister was involved in taking government services to young people in Gauteng Province (Fochville Popo Molefe Stadium). Issues raised by young people included inter alia youth unemployment which leads to drug abuse and addiction, access to higher learning and internet connection.

21 July 2016

Engagement with Learners in Wedela where the Minister donated a mini library at Thabo Merafong Home Based Care Center.

Deputy Minister Ayanda Dlodlo

23 April 2016

The Imbizo was held at Civic Centre Hall, Riversdale, Hessequa Local Municipality

Report back Imbizo on issues raised by youth engagement on 20 June 2015.

The report included the number of 807 unemployed young people who were registered by the Department of Labour and 606 who received Employment Counseling; the increased Home Affairs services per month i.e. twice a month in Albertinia, Stilbaai and Heidelberg, youth entrepreneurial development programme Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) trained 150 young people in areas of marketing, production and human resources management; Southern Cape College TVET College, PetroSA and Transnet provided skill Youth Career Expo in the municipality.

10 July 2016

Oudtshoorn Youth Outreach Programme was held at New Bridgeton Stadium, Oudtshoorn.

Shared information on education and economic development opportunities, encouraged them to talk about issues they are confronted with and what support they need to improve their lives, encouraged youth to make the Public Service their career of choice. This was in partnership with the South Cape TVET College, Department of Home Affairs, SASSA, Department of Health, South African National Defence Force and Local Municipality. These partners provided information on available youth development opportunities.

20 June 2016

Open Government Partnership youth dialogue was held at UNISA, Pretoria.

The purpose of the youth dialogue was to discuss how land reform and expropriation relates to youth unemployment and economic empowerment. Issues covered included necessary skills needed, access to information on land reform, youth involvement in national discourse, establishment of Commission of Enquiry on the land that was taken from black people.

30 June 2016

Open Government Partnership youth dialogue on Land Reform, Youth Unemployment and Economic Empowerment in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.

The purpose of the youth dialogue was to solicit the opinions of young people on the subject of land and agrarian reform. Furthermore the dialogue strived to establish solutions for the challenges facing the youth of South Africa namely, unemployment and economic disempowerment. Issues that came from the discussions include lack of knowledge and awareness of land reform legislation and initiatives, lack of employment opportunities available, need for funding policy reform and greater monitoring and control of funds within development agencies.

Reply:

(a) 44 142 complaints have been received and 38 357 were since resolved and blocked not to allow any further deductions from recurring. Five

thousand seven hundred and eighty five (5 785) of these cases have been refunded to the beneficiaries.

(b) The nature of the complaints is airtime, electricity and loan deductions.

(c) (i) and (ii) SASSA developed and implemented a Dispute Resolution Mechanism as a recourse system to deal with the rising number of deductions against social grants. The Dispute Resolution Mechanism has a built-in Communication Strategy that focuses on beneficiary education and awareness. In addition to this system, a Ministerial Task Team was established to play a monitoring, oversight and also propose interventions to deal with this challenge. This system has since reflected and improvement in dealing with this.

Reply:

(1) (a) In April 2016, the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) undertook a study visit to Canada. The purpose of the visit was to benchmark against existing institutional mechanisms in Canada, to gather information that will assist in establishing the Public Administration

Ethics, Integrity and Disciplinary Technical Assistance Unit (EIDTAU), focusing on specific lessons and experiences with regards to structures, regulations, procedures, tools and systems. The DPSA interacted with a number of institutions operating at three levels of government. One of the institutions that the DPSA engaged with is the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), which is similar to the DPSA with regards to mandate.

 (i) TBS is responsible for accountability and ethics, HR and administrative management. financial, comptrollership, approving regulations and translating the policies and programmes approved by Cabinet into reality and by providing departments with the resources and the administrative support they need to do their work. TBS implements a number of instruments for promoting ethics in the Public Service at Federal level such as:

• Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) which protects public servants who disclose acts of wrongdoing. This piece of legislation enables departments to implement an internal mechanism for reporting allegations of unethical conduct or corruption. However, the Act does not prevent employees from reporting to the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner of Canada, which is an agency of Parliament similar to the Public Protector of South Africa.

• Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector- general code of conduct for all Federal public service employees. The Code constitutes part of the terms and conditions of employment for all Federal employees. Failure to adhere can lead to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment; and

• Policy on conflict of Interest and Post-Employment. This Policy prescribes restrictions that public servants in designated positions should adhere to in order to avoid actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest, when they leave the public service.

In June 2013, the DPSA also undertook a study visit to the United Republic of Tanzania. The purpose of the study visit was to achieve the following outcomes:

• Clear conceptualization of the institutional model that can best address corruption challenges in the public administration of South Africa;

• Delineation of the mandate and functions of such a model;

• In-depth understanding of the resource allocation implications and

• The design of an organizational structure that matches the functions and mandate.

The DPSA delegation interacted with the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) and the Ethics Secretariat. The PCCB is a constitutional body that investigates and prosecute acts of corruption in both public and private sector. It is an independent anti-corruption agency as contemplated in Articles 6 and 36 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). The Ethics Secretariat receives and verifies declarations of assets and liabilities which are required to be made by public leaders under the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania. Moreover, this constitutional body is empowered to initiate and conduct any investigation in respect of breach of ethics prescribed under the Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act. No. 13 of 1995.

(ii) The following is my position regarding each of the initiatives implemented by TBS of Canada and the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania.

Initiative	My position
Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) (Canada)	The internal reporting mechanism implemented by departments is an excellent practice. This is an idea that we are exploring as we proceed with the establishment of the EIDTAU.
Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector (Canada)	This Code is similar to our Code of Conduct for Public Servants, which we have implemented since 1997. We have recently refined the Code as part of the new amendments we made in the Public Service Regulations, 2016.
Policy on conflict of Interest and Post- Employment (Canada)	We studied this practice since 2007. While this practice is desirable, we believe that the enforcement will pose more challenges.
Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) (Tanzania	In establishing the EIDTAU, we are cognizant that South Africa has adopted a multi-agency system to fighting corruption, which is viewed by the National Development Plan as the appropriate model for the country. Although the work of PCCB is commendable, we believe its approach is similar to the DPCI.
The Ethics Secretariat (Tanzania)	A central system for disclosure of financial interests of all public officials (elected and appointed) is a very unique. However, this model cannot be replicated in South Africa. We already have a decentralised system that separates categories of public officials. In the Public Service, the Public Service Commission verifies all financial disclosures of senior officials.

(2) In terms of the Public Administration Management Act, 2015 (PAMA), all public servants will be required to disclose financial interests of spouses. This requirement will come in to effect once I have issued the Regulations to support the implementation of PAMA.

(3) We have been implementing the electronic disclosure system since 2015 and we have seen a remarkable improvement in terms of compliance rate. Below is an overview electronic disclosures by SMS members as at 30 April 2016.

Institution	No. of SMS	No. submitted	%
National Departments	4988	4532	91%
National Components	684	660	96%
Eastern Cape	580	459	79%
Free State	379	330	87%
Gauteng	811	803	99%
KZN	605	605	100%
Limpopo	484	479	99%
Mpumalanga	262	230	88%
Northern Cape	262	262	100%
North West	250	199	80%
Western Cape	384	384	100%
Total	9689	8943	92%

We have strengthened the requirement to disclose electronically in the PSR, 2016. Employees will disclose manually only under exceptional circumstances, which will have to be authorised by respective heads of departments. The Public Service Commission retains the responsibility to conduct verification of financial disclosures and manage any conflicts of interest for all members of Senior Management Service

Reply:

The Minister has approved to allocate funding over a period of three years to the amount of R150 million in order to address illegal connections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) as a pilot programme. The allocation, like all electrification allocations, is only made available to the implementing agent (municipality or Eskom) upon approving of a formal business plan regarding the technical and financial details of a project/programme.

Reply:

Quote:

(a) The department does not run development programme as its constitutional mandate is outward focused in implementing foreign policy.

(b) African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund, does not run development programme, suffice to say that, in the disbursement of funds for approved projects with regard to Humanitarian Assistance, emphasise is made to procure goods locally, in supporting SMME and small scale farmers.

Unquote.

Reply:

a) The Integrated Rapid Public Transport Network (IRPTN) for eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality is made up of nine(9) trunk corridors, supported by feeder networks and services. One of these trunk corridors, corridor C2 from the northern communities of Phoenix, Inanda, Ntuzuma and Kwa-Mashu to Umlazi and Isiphingo in the south, is a rail corridor, for which the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is responsible. The implementation of the remaining eight(8) road-based corridors is the City’s responsibility.

    i) Milestones and Timelines

The IRPTN in eThekwini is planned to be rolled-out over four(4) phases, with the first phase made up of the following trunk corridors:

• Corridor C1: Bridge City (Phoenix, Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) to the CBD
• Corridor C2 (rail): Bridge City (Phoenix, Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) to CBD to Umlazi and Isiphingo
• Corridor C3: Pinetown to Bridge City
• Corridor C9: Bridge City to Umhlanga
• Inner City Distribution Sustem (ICDS)

Of the four corridors, corridor C3 will be the first to go live, i.e. start of operations, from July 2017 (testing and commissioning services), followed by C9 in 2019, and C1 in 2022. Key milestones for the C2 corridor have been the opening of the Bridge City (October 2013) and KwaMnyandu (April 2014) stations, with the delivery of the new rolling stock set to start in 2019, all going well. Key milestones and timelines for Phase1 can be summarised as follows:

	C3	C9	C1
Right of Way	Completion of 24.90km of ROW Commence Construction of 2.8km (Dinkelman) Procure Contractor for Crossroads (0.43km)	Completion of Cornubia Bridge Commence Construction M49 Interchange May 2017 Commence Construction of Cornubia Boulevard Feb 2017	Commence Construction of Early Start Package 1 by Nov 2016 Procure Contractors of Early Start Package 2 (Marbleray) by June 17
Depots	Commence Construction of Bridge City Depot by Jan 2017	Same as for C3	Same as for C3
Stations	Complete 10 stations by May 2017	March 2019	To be firmed up at tender award
Terminals	Complete Preliminary Civil Works by May 2017 – Bridge City terminal	Umhlanga terminal: date not firmed up yet, pending finalization of discussions with developers and the management association for Umhlanga town center	To be firmed up at tender award
Go Live	From July 2017 (testing and commissioning), with full service in December 2017	Planned for September 2019	Planned for January 2022 (some services)

b) Monitoring mechanisms

The following mechanisms have been put in place to not only monitor the achievement of milestones and timelines, but also provide support to the City, where necessary, in delivering its IRPTN:

   i) The City is required to submit monthly and annual progress reports to my Department, for us to monitor progress, and address any problem areas timeously

   ii) Officials from my Department and those from the City hold regular meetings, about every two months, to discuss implementation progress, address technical issues, conduct site visits, if necessary, and plan for future years, to ensure that the project stays on course, and that funding requirements are identified far in advance.

Reply:

The Department plans to present a Bill (draft legislation framework) to Cabinet to solicit gazetting approval for 60 days public consultations during 2016/17 financial year. Thereafter, inputs from the public consultations will be consolidated and a revised Bill will be resubmitted to Cabinet for approval by end of September 2017. Following the Cabinet approval, the Bill is anticipated to be tabled in Parliament by end of 2017/18 financial year. Upon promulgation of the Bill into a legislation, the Transport Economic Regulator establishment will commence.

Reply:

1. (a) The total number of Letters of Authority (LOA) that are in backlog at the NRCS as at 30 June 2016 are 1170 out of a total of 3605 handled during this period, resulting in 2435 approvals.

(b) The detailed breakdown of the specified backlog in LOA per industry sector as of 30 June 2016 is 15 for the Automotive sector, 39 for the Chemical, Materials and Mechanicals sector, 1116 for the electro-technical sector and zero for gaming equipment and type approvals in legal metrology.

(c) The average waiting period for a LOA to be issued is 156 days.

(2) The Performance Agreement of the CEO has been forwarded to the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on 14 September 2016.

Reply:

1. (a-d) Minister has not earned any additional income from business and, is not doing any business with the Government.

2. (a)      No

    (b)      No

    (c)      No (i - iv) No, as stated above.

Reply:

(a)&(b) In answer to the question asked by the honourable member , SANRAL reports that from toll commencement on 3 December 2013 to 31 July 2016, the system has been operating as designed. The availability average across the system has been above the contractually required 99,8% per month.

Similarly for the back office systems – it has been above 99,9%.

Reply:

Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)

   (a) There are twenty two (22) applications for community radio stations currently being reviewed by ICASA.

   (b) The names of the radio stations and the provinces in which they are located are detailed below:

Name of the station	Status	Province
Engcobo Community Radio	Pending	Eastern Cape
Ubuntu Community Radio	Pending	Eastern Cape
Areka FM	Granted but not issued	Free State
Kotulo FM	Granted but not issued	Free State
Poort FM	Granted but not issued	Gauteng
Sondela Broadcasting Service	Granted but not issued	Gauteng
Vosloorus Community Radio	Pending	Gauteng
Intokozo Yeningizimu Radio	Granted but not issued	Kwa Zulu Natal
KNI Radio	Granted but not issued	Kwa Zulu Natal
Radio Drakensberg	Granted but not issued	Kwa Zulu Natal
Rock of Ages Christian Radio	Granted but not issued	Kwa Zulu Natal
Kingdom FM	Pending	Limpopo
Legae FM	Pending	Limpopo
Matlala Community Radio	Pending	Limpopo
Malebogo Community Radio	Pending	Limpopo
Nzhelele FM	Pending	Limpopo
Savannah	Pending	Limpopo
Enhlanzeni Media Trust	Pending	Mpumalanga
Bodumedi FM	Granted but not issued	North West
Bokone Bophirima	Pending	North West
Stile FM	Granted but not issued	Western Cape
Western Cape FM	Pending	Western Cape

Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA)

  (a) The MDDA is currently reviewing 9 community broadcasting project applications (8 radio & 1 television) for consideration and approval.

  (b) The names of the radio stations currently being reviewed in each province are outlined in the table below:

Media Type	Project Name	Province
Community Radio (New)	Westside FM	Gauteng
Community Radio (New)	Sefako Makgatho University FM (Radio MEDUNSA)	Gauteng
Community Radio (New)	Waterberg Stereo	Limpopo
Community Radio (New)	Bojanala FM	North West
Community Radio (New)	Radio Matatiele	Eastern Cape
Community Radio (New)	Pongola FM	Kwazulu Natal
Community Radio (New)	Ekasi FM	Mpumalanga
Community Radio (Strengthening)	1 KZN Television	Kwazulu Natal
Community Radio (New)	Inakekelo	Mpumalanga

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE

Reply:

Yes, the care and protection of animals in South Africa is regulated by two Acts — the Animals Protection Act, 1962 (Act 71 of 1962) (APA) and the Performing Animals Protection Act, 1935 (Act 24 of 1935) (PAPA). A third Act, the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (Act No. 169 of 1993) governs the organization and management of the SPCA movement in South Africa.

DAFF is currently publishing Draft Norms and Standards for the Welfare of Captive Lions under Animals Protection Act, 1962 (Act 71 of 1962) to enforce welfare of captive lions.

Reply:

(1) Whether, with reference to her reply to question 1100 on 4 August 2016, she has received the information from the provincial departments of education; if so, what is the relevant information;

1. The Department has received information from Free State, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Departments of Education about professionals in respect of each (a) province and (b) district who have been trained to assist in conducting investigations and hearings against educators. The remaining provinces will still be required to provide the information.

(2) Whether she will provide the information received from the Western Cape provincial department of education in the meantime; if not, why not; if so, by when?

      (2) Yes, the information about the Western Cape is on table 2 (page 3) of this response.

1. FREE STATE (5 Districts)

FREE STATE TOTAL

27

District Name	Director	Contact Details	E-MAIL	District Number Trained
Fezile Dabi (RURAL)	Mr VH Chuta Director	Tel.: 016 973 9118 Fax: 086 608 8898 082 481 7632	[email protected] [email protected]	5
Motheo (URBAN)	Mrs. NEH Motsoeneng Director	Tel.: 051 404 4622 Fax: 051 404 4622 086 637 6621 082 770 7448	[email protected] [email protected]	11 (Including officials from Head Office)
	Mr MS Mokgobo Director	Tel.: 057 353 2901/ 7 Fax: 057 3575 443 Fax: 086 519 1639 082 774 1017	[email protected] [email protected]	3
Thabo Mofutsanyane (RURAL)	Mrs. BS Tshabalala Director	Tel.: 058 718 4809 086 582 4759 082 495 7582	[email protected] [email protected]	5
Xhariep (URBAN)	Mr WRM Mokuena Director	Tel.: 051 404 4895 Fax: 051 404 4894 082 564 5803	[email protected] [email protected]	3

1. WESTERN CAPE (8 Districts)

WESTERN CAPE TOTAL

30

 

District Name	Director	Contact Details	E-MAIL	District Number Trained
Metro- Central (URBAN)	Ms Sanette Novers	Tel.: 021 514 6700/ 3 Fax: 021 514 6953 072 880 5356	[email protected]	1
Metro- East (URBAN)	Mr M Caroline	Tel.: 021 900 7000/ 5 Fax: 021 903 9484/ 082 442 6640	[email protected]	1
Metro- North (URBAN)	Dr H Brand	Tel.: 021 938 3000 Fax: 021 938 3180	[email protected]	1
Metro- South (URBAN)	Mr Glen Van Harte	Tel.: 021 370 2000 Fax: 021 372 1856	[email protected]	1
Overberg (RURAL)	Mr Bertram Loriston	Tel.: 028 214 7300/ 05 Fax: 086 528 7410 Fax: 028 214 7400	[email protected]	1
Eden Karoo (RURAL)	Ms FZV Rhoxo	Tel.: 044 083 8320 Fax: 044 873 2253	[email protected]	1
West- Coast( (RURAL)	Mr J Beukes	Tel.: 021 860 1200/ 7 Fax: 021 860 1231	[email protected]	1
Cape Winelands (RURAL)	Mr C Frolick	Tel.: 023 348 4600 Tel.: 023 348 4601 Fax: 023 342 4138	[email protected] [email protected]	1

1. KWAZULU NATAL (12 Districts)

KZN TOTAL

25

District Name	Director	Contact Details	E-MAIL	District Number Trained
Head Office	NC Ngcobo	033 846 5402 0725821636	[email protected]	8
Pinetown (URBAN)	Mr E Kganye Acting Director	Tel.: 031 716 2702 Fax: 031 702 6135	[email protected]	2
Ugu/ Port Shepstone (URBAN/RURAL)	Mr W Mfundi Sibiya Director	Tel.: 039 688 8606 Fax: 039 682 0115	[email protected]	0
ILembe (RURAL)	Mr NW Mzoneli Director	Tel.: 031 327 0509 Fax: 031 368 4472	[email protected]	2
Umlazi (URBAN/RURAL)	Mr BH Ntuli Acting Director	Tel.: 031 9188 510 Fax: 031 906 1451	[email protected] [email protected]	1
Sisonke/ Kokstad (RURAL)	Mr ME Mdletshe Director	Tel.: 039 797 3700/ 03 Fax: 039 7274 254	[email protected]	0
Othukela (RURAL)	Mr M J Mazibuko District Director	Tel.: 036 638 5206 Fax: 036 631 1286	[email protected]	2
Umzinyathi (RURAL)	Mr. H Majola Director	Tel.: 034 219 2708 Fax: 034 219 2155	[email protected]	0
UMgungundlovu (RURAL)	Ms JA Baiju Director	Tel.: 033 341 6461 033 3416402 Fax: 033 342 4481	[email protected] [email protected]	2
Amajuba (URBAN/RURAL)	Rev Nelson Sithole Director	Tel.: 034 328 4502 Fax: 034 328 4601	[email protected]	2
Empangeni/ UThungulu (RURAL)	Mr. DS Chonco Director	Tel.: 035 901 1303/4 Fax: 035 792 6165	[email protected] [email protected]	2
Obonjeni (RURAL)	Mr. TJ Motha	Tel.: 035 573 9719 Fax: 035 573 1722	[email protected]	2
Vryheid (RURAL)	Mr Willem Du Plooy Director	Tel.: 034 98230730 Fax: 034 982 1666	[email protected] [email protected]	2

Reply:

1.There is a long standing relationship between the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and various local authorities across the country. The establishment of Rail Steering / Liaison Committees was done many years ago, still in the days of the South African Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC), with various local and district municipalities.

More recently, in terms of the National Land Transport Transition Act (NLTA), the establishment of Intermodal Planning Committees (IPCs) is required. To quote the NLTA “Every municipality that is establishing an integrated public transport network or has significant passenger rail services in its area must… establish an intermodal planning committee consisting of the prescribed technical officials and prescribed representatives of rail operators”.

Many IPCs have already been established, in which PRASA is an active participant and have to some extent replaced some of the Rail Steering / Liaison Committees. In the event where an IPC has not formerly been established, the co-operation between PRASA and the local authority continues through the existing committees or project related steering committees. PRASA reports to the Executive Authority on quarterly basis on the activities and progress regarding the work of the IPCs, as part of the Shareholders Compact.

2. The function of the IPC, as per the NLTA, is to coordinate and integrate public transport as well as non-motorised and freight transport. In addition where there are significant passenger rail services in the area, the intermodal planning committee must facilitate the conclusion of appropriate service level agreements between the municipality and the PRASA.

  (a) Terms of reference for the committees, as required by the NLTA, have been developed

  (b) The close co-operation between the parties has resulted in good co-ordination and alignment of plans and projects across the country. These include :

1. Integrated Transport Plans
2. Integrated Public Transport Network development
3. PRASA Strategic Plan
4. Joint projects (station precincts)
5. Development of Memoranda of Action (MOA)
6. Sharing of information

Reply:

(a)(i) The Master Implementation Program, given the status of the Project it is currently, refer to the table below. It should be noted that, the completion of construction dates are dependent on some critical matters such as unforeseen rock conditions encountered when drilling the tunnel since limited geotechnical investigation can be done due to the tunnel alignment being situated very deep below the ground surface.

MASTER IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM: CRITICAL DATES	Deadlines
Designs of advance Infrastructure commence	Apr 15 – end Sept 18
Award tenders for Polihali Dam design and Polihali Tunnel design	June 17, July 17
Award tenders for construction of Advance Infrastructure	Mar 17 – Oct 20
Award tenders for construction of Polihali Dam and Tunnel	Jul 19, Aug 19
Start impounding water in Polihali dam	May 23
Construction of Polihali Dam complete	Aug 24
Construction of Polihali to Katse Tunnel complete	Jan 25
Water delivery to RSA commence once Transfer Tunnel is complete	End Jan 25

(a)(ii) Delays encountered was due to the evaluating the complex bid documents and the severe adverse weather conditions since most of the work sites are situated high up in the Maluti Mountains.

(b) Refer to table above.

(c) My Department has established a Strategy Steering Committee consisting of all the Major Stakeholders of the Vaal River System (VRS). This Steering Committee is guiding the implementation of various interventions to ensure that there will be enough water in the system until LHWP Phase 2 (Polihali Dam) can deliver water.

Interventions such as the eradication of unlawful water use, implementation of Water Conservation and Water Demand measures, the desalination and re-use of Acid Mine Drainage, as well as the re-use of sewage return flows.

Although the occurrence of drought is a natural phenomenon causing restrictions to be imposed from time to time, over the medium long-term, the delay in the implementation of Polihali Dam will unfortunately cause periods when the implementation of the above mentioned interventions will not be sufficient to supply enough water which will increase the possibility of unnecessary or pre-mature restrictions in the VRS.

The VRS is currently in a drought situation and it was decided in consultation with the various Stakeholders in the VRS to start the process of implementing progressive water restrictions over the short-term to ensure that a basic water supply can be ensured.

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Reply:

Currently the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries does not monitor the canned lion hunts but will, after the publication and adoption of the Norms and Standards for Welfare of captive lions, in partnership with the Department of Environmental Affairs, enforce welfare prescripts regarding captive of lions.

Reply:

1. Yes I am informed that a notice that has been captured on the System remains until such notice is cancelled by the relevant Issuing Authority or by a Representations Officer upon receiving a representation. It should be noted that despite the alleged infringer not having received the notice, such an infringer has an option of checking his or her record on the System through the website.
2. The System does not cancel the notices on its own accord after 40 days. The system is designed to mark notices as unenforceable if such notices are captured on the system after the prescribed time frames since the contravention was committed. The notices are kept in the System for record purposes in order to track the statistics of law enforcement, the performance of individual officers as well as for intelligence purposes.
3. The System will not issue a notice after the 40 day period since the contravention has already lapsed, as indicated on response (2) above, such information serves as intelligence as well as for management purposes.

(4) Noting that there is a possibility that due processes were not followed, the honourable member should not infer that the alleged infringer did not contravene the law. The MP as a public representative should advise the alleged infringer to choose to react and challenge the lapse of due process through a representation.

Reply:

Yes, ICASA placed a moratorium on community radio licences.

a)   i) ICASA issued twenty three (23) community sound broadcasting service licences in the 2015/16 financial year.

      ii) Five (5) were issued since April 2016.

b)/c) The names of the stations and the provinces in which they are located:

Licences issued in the 2015/16 Financial Year
Name of Station	Province
Abaqulusi Community Radio	Eastern Cape
Voice of Matat Community Radio	Eastern Cape
Dihlabeng FM	Free State
Eden Community Radio	Gauteng
Abusekho Ubunzima Christian Radio Station	KwaZulu Natal
Pongola Community Radio	KwaZulu Natal
Choice FM	Limpopo
Mutsindo FM	Limpopo
Polokwane Community Radio	Limpopo
Radio Ysterberg	Limpopo
Radio Wolkberg	Limpopo
Radio Kransberg	Limpopo
Radio Naboom	Limpopo
Thulamela FM	Limpopo
Eyethu Community Radio	Mpumalanga
Radio Dagbreek	Mpumalanga
Revelation FM	Mpumalanga
Lara FM	Northern Cape
Radio Magalies	North West
Radio Tafelkop	North West
Caledon FM	Western Cape
Radio Disa	Western Cape
Radio Perron Central	Western Cape

Licences issued since 1 April 2016
Name of Station	Province
Radio Karoo	Eastern Cape
Sirius FM	Gauteng
Jou Radio	Limpopo
Hoedspruit Community Radio	Mpumalanga
7441 FM	Western Cape

aa) On 22 September 2015, ICASA issued a moratorium in respect of applications for class community sound broadcasting service licences and applications for radio frequency spectrum for purposes of providing a community broadcasting service.

bb) The moratorium was necessitated by:

    i) A scarcity of analogue radio frequency;

   ii)The review of the licensing processes and procedures regulations to include a provision for ICASA to process registrations from class community broadcasting licences in two intervals per year. This was concluded in March 2016; and

   iii) ICASA is in the process of developing new regulatory framework for community broadcasting in the 2016/17 financial year.

The moratorium does not however, apply to pending applications received by the Authority before September 2015 and applications for special event licences.

 

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE

Reply:

1. Radio stations are carried on DSTV through commercial agreements between the relevant radio station and DSTV.

2. Both community and commercial radio stations are presently accommodated on the DSTV bouquet. Since January 2014, ICASA has authorised the following radio station channels for inclusion on the DSTV bouquet:

SABC	Commercial	Community	Others
5 FM	Heart FM	Groot FM	Channel 7
Channel Africa	LM Radio	Mix 93.8 FM	Trots Afrikaans
Good Hope FM	North West FM	Radio Islam	The Light
Ikwekwezi FM	OFM		Ubuntu Radio
Lesedi FM	Power FM
Ligwalagwala
Lotus FM
Motsweding FM
Munghana Lonene FM
Phalaphala FM
Radio 2000
RSG
SA FM
Thobela FM
Tru FM
Ukhozi FM
Umhlobo Wenene FM
X-K FM

 

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE

Reply:

The care and protection of animals in South Africa is regulated by two Acts — the Animal Protection Act, (APA) 1962 (Act 71 of 1962) (APA) and the Performing Animal Protection Act, (PAPA) 1935 (Act 24 of 1935) (PAPA) under the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) A third Act, the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (Act No. 169 of 1993) governs the organization and management of the SPCA movement in South Africa.

DAFF is publishing Draft Norms and Standards for the Welfare of Captive Lions under Animals Protection Act, 1962 (Act 71 of 1962) to enforce welfare prescripts regarding lions in captivity.

Reply:

The National Prosecuting Authority is still considering the matter, no decision has been taken whether or not to prosecute any person(s) in relation to the matter.

Reply:

(a) The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is the Information Technology (IT) provider to all government departments. The responsibility to render the examinationsIT system fully functional, including the processing of certification data, rests with SITA which falls under the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services. The functionality of the examinations IT system includes the programming, enhancement and maintenance thereof.

SITA was initially unable to correct the data processing errors affecting resulting and certification data on the examinations IT system and this is what led to a backlog in the issuing of certificates. SITA acknowledged the capacity and management challenges being experienced in this regard to the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training in August 2015.

(b) SITA immediately established a special project team to address the certification backlog in August 2015 and outsourced part of the process to an outside service provider with the requisite experience in the particular programming language in use on the system. The Department and the quality assurance body, Umalusi, also availed dedicated personnel to the project to assist SITA in expediting the correction of the data processing errors on the system.

SITA has also established a new and permanent education portfolio outside of its other regular portfolios and placed a senior manager in charge to drive the IT services rendered to government departments functioning as national assessment bodies.

The students affected by the problem do indeed have statements of results and the Department, on request, provides students with letters confirming that they comply with the requirements for the issuance of a certificate.

The Department has also, with the approval of Cabinet, appointed an outside service provider to develop a new examination IT system which will address the processing of resulting and certification amongst all other functionalities on the system. The development of the resulting and certification functionalities has been prioritised and will be implemented as soon as they are approved for implementation.

(c) Substantial progress has been made with the backlog project for the certification of NC(V) candidates from the November 2007 to March 2015 cycles. To date, 99.7% of the 236821 candidate records not yet processed by August 2015 have been completed which means that only 743 (0.3%) certificate records have yet to be processed. Due to the nature of the errors in the remaining records, each record has to be attended to manually.

The Department packs and dispatches the NC(V) certificates to examination centres upon receipt from Umalusi.Candidates are therefore advised to contact the examination centre where they wrote their examinations to make arrangements for collection of their certificates.

The processing of certification data for the November 2015 cohort of students has been initiated and these certificates will be released during September 2016.

COMPILER/CONTACT PERSONS:

EXT:

DIRECTOR – GENERAL

STATUS:

DATE:

QUESTION 1748 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED

Dr BE NZIMANDE, MP

MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING

STATUS:

DATE:

Reply:

Quote:

(a)(i) The department has spent R 4,094,600.01 on advertising in 2015-16 financial year.

• Advertising: Promotional Items & Marketing R 3,343,401.15
• Advertising: Recruitment R 528,711.08
• Advertising: Tenders R 222,487.78

It should be noted that the expenditure on advertising include procurement of promotional items that are mainly used by missions which is classified as advertising according to Standard Chart of Accounts(SCOA) as well as advertising cost for recruitment and tenders.

(a)(ii) The entity (African Renaissance International Cooperation Fund) does not have and operational budget, all operational costs are covered by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

(b)(i) The department budgeted R6,417,475.00 for advertising in 2016-17 financial year for procurement of missions’ promotional items, adverts for recruitment as well as adverts for tenders and

(b)(ii) The entity (African Renaissance International Cooperation Fund) does not have an operational budget, all operational costs are covered by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

Unquote.

Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

(a) (i), (ii) and (ii) No cases of fraud were reported to the National Department of Public Works (NDPW) with regard the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), in the 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2015-16 financial years.

(ii) In the 2015-16 financial year there was one case of a Ward Councillor from the eThekwini Municipality.

(b) (c) (i) and (ii) and (d) The NDPW immediate engaged the Municipality on this case and thereafter it was referred to the Municipality Ombudsman (Integrity Unit) for further investigation. The Ward Councillor unfortunately passed away during the course of the investigation. No criminal case was registered as a result of the death of the Ward Councillor. At the time of death the said individual was still serving as a Ward Councillor and had not been removed from their position.

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Reply:

The information required relates to the movement of the VVIP, and for security reasons, the response to this question can only be presented to a closed session of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.

Reply:

I have been furnished with a reply by the CEO of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), Mr Geoffrey Qhena, a copy of which is attached hereto.

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Reply:

(a) The budget that is allocated for the leasing of the VIP-configured jet for the 2016/17 financial year is R100m.

(b) The Request for Offer (RFO) was issued on the 18th August 2016. After the tender process has been completed and if a successful bid is received, it is anticipated that the aircraft will be delivered to the SA Air Force on the 01st November 2016.

Reply:

The matter is still under investigation, response will be made available once it is finalised.

Reply:

1. Yes, the government recognised the Ndebele amaNzunza as a kingship community (traditional community) and not a nation. The Department acknowledge the people of South Africa as a Nation composed of different communities including amaNzunza. AmaNzunza have their recognised senior traditional leaders who are under their king. AmaNzunza as a community separate from any other community were in existence for over five hundred years and have been recognised as such.
2. Yes, the government does recognise that there are differences between amaNzunza and amaNala. The two are not cultural groups but communities, any cultural groups from each will depict the community thus there will be a difference. The Honourable Member is requested to note that each community has its own king and follows their own customs and customary laws and their traditions differ like initiation schools differ in terms of regiments naming and the number of regiments, lobola cattle etc.
3. The Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act, 2003 (Act No. 41 of 2003) does not make provisions for the recognition of kingdoms in the Republic of South Africa. The Act makes provision for the recognition of kingships and kings of which amaNzunza have been recognised as such.

Reply:

Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality was contacted to provide a response to the question.

The response from Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality to the above-mentioned questions is as follows:

1. No, water in Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality is supplied by the Sekhukhune District Municipality.
2. No, please refer to the above.

Reply:

The information required relates to the movement of the VVIP, and for security reasons, the response to this question can only be presented to a closed session of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.

Reply:

The information required relates to the movement of the VVIP, and for security reasons, the response to this question can only be presented to a closed session of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.

Reply:

Yes, the Minister has convened and presided over the following meetings of the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister and Members of Executive Council (MINMEC). The meetings were held as follows:

(i) Dates	(ii) Venues
19 February 2016	Offices of the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, 87 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, Boardroom S-37
01 April 2016	Offices of the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, 87 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, Boardroom S-37
13 May 2016	Offices of the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, 87 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, Boardroom S-37
02 September 2016	Offices of the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, 87 Hamilton Street, Arcadia, Pretoria, Boardroom S-37

Reply:

The information required relates to the movement of the VVIP, and for security reasons, the response to this question can only be presented to a closed session of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence.