Questions and Replies

Reply:

Implementation of Section 13 of the Competition Amendment Act, 2009 (Act No1 of 2009) came into effect on the publication of the Proclamation in the Government Gazette on 9 June 2016.

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Reply:

1. The South African Police Service is not structured according to Local Municipalities but according to Clusters and Police Stations. The tables below depict the actual personnel that worked at each of the specified stations, the allocated police vehicles and the condition of those vehicles:

Senqu Local Municipality
(a) Police Station	(b) Total Actual Personnel
Palmietfontein	47
Phumalanga	42
Rhodes	22
Rossouw	21
Sterkspruit	115
Lady Grey	45
Barkly East	62

(1)(c)&(d)

Senqu Local Municipality
STATION	Total Actual Vehicles	Vehicles Recommend for board	Vehicles in Workshop	Grand Total
Palmietfontein	10	2	2	14
Phumalanga	6	-	3	9
Rhodes	4	1	1	6
Rossouw	2	3	1	6
Sterkspruit	16	2	9	27
Lady Grey	4	-	5	9
Barkly East	9	2	10	21

(2)(a)(i) Yes

(2)(a)(ii) Yes

(2)(a)(iii) Yes

(2)(a)(iv) No

(2)(a)(v) Yes

(2)(b) Yes, from 1 January 2016 to 30 April 2016

(2)(b)(i)

Year	Police Station	Number of escapees
2011	Lady Grey	1
2012	Lady Grey	1
2013	Sterkspruit	1
2014	Not applicable	None
2015	Lady Grey	2
	Sterkspruit	1
	Sterkspruit	1
1 January 2016 to 30 April 2016	Sterkspruit	1

(2)(b)(ii)

Year	Police Station	Reason for apprehension
	Charge	CAS
2011	Lady Grey	Housebreaking and theft	CAS 20/04/2011
2012	Lady Grey	Possession of dagga	CAS 21/06/2012
2013	Sterkspruit	Murder	CAS 139/10/2012
2014	Not applicable	None	None
2015	Lady Grey	Robbery	CAS 62/12/2014
	Sterkspruit	House Robbery	CAS 76/02/2016
	Sterkspruit	Rape	CAS 144/09/2015
1 Jan to 30 April 2016	Sterkspruit	Rape	CAS 5/04/2016

(3)

Year	Police Station	Suspect apprehended again; if not, why not; if so after how long
2011	Lady Grey	Yes, within 24 hours
2012	Lady Grey	Yes, within a month
2013	Sterkspruit	No, police are still tracing the escapee
2014	None	Not applicable
2015	Lady Grey	Yes, within a month
	Sterkspruit	Yes, within 48 hours
	Sterkspruit	No, police are still tracing the escapee
1 Jan to 30 April 2016	Sterkspruit	Yes, within 48 hours

Reply:

Drugs confiscated by the South African Police Service (SAPS) are dealt with in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No 51 of 1977), Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 1995, (Act No 68 of 1995), National Instruction 1 of 2015: Crime Scene Management and Standing Order (General) 333, which prescribes the destruction process.

Drugs confiscated by SAPS are processed at the police station where it is packaged and sealed in the presence of the suspect, weighed and entered into the SAPS 13 Register.

All drugs, except Cannabis, are forwarded to SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for analysis, secure storage and destruction, whilst awaiting finalisation of the case and issuing of a relevant disposal order by the National Prosecuting Authority.

Cannabis is stored in the SAPS 13 Stores at police stations, awaiting finalisation of the case and the issuing of a disposal order by the National Prosecuting Authority.

Drugs are delivered to the FSL or collected by FSL members from crime scenes. It is then registered (allocated a unique laboratory number), assigned to an analyst and stored in the archiving storage after analysis.

After approval for destruction has been granted, drugs are destroyed according to relevant FSL Quality Management System destruction procedures.

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Tembisa Police Station went to court and ended in successful convictions.

	(i) 2013/2014	(ii) 2014/2015*	(iii) 2015/2016 (up to 30 May 2016)
(a) To Court	1195	940	766
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	372	56	75

* Please note that during 2014/2015 Tembisa South Police Station was established out of Tembisa Police Station and therefore there is a major decrease in the totals from 2013/2014 to 2014/2015.

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Bedfordview Police Station went to court and ended in successful convictions.

	(i) 2013/2014	(ii) 2014/2015	(iii) 2015/2016 (up to 30 May 2016)
(a) To Court	129	198	172
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	82	130	76

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System following drug-related cases from Tembisa South Police Station went to court and ended in successful convictions.

	(i) 2013/2014*	(ii) 2014/2015	(iii) 2015/2016 (up to 30 May 2016)
(a) To Court	0	174	196
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	0	20	18

* Please note that during 2014/2015 Tembisa South Police Station was established out of Tembisa Police Station and therefore no cases were registered for 2013/2014.

Reply:

The Department of Cooperative Governance, as part of the 828 approach, monthly requests municipalities to report on the number of households receiving (i) water, (ii) electricity, (iii) sanitation and (iv) solid waste management services, new connection made and the number of households receiving free basic water and free basic electricity. The numbers in the table below are the average number of households that monthly received the service for the period July 2015 to March 2016:
 

Metro	How many households received electricity?	How many households were connected for the first time to the electricity system?	How many households received sanitation?	How many households received water?	How many households were connected for the first time to the water system?	How many households received Free Basic Water	How many households received Free Basic Electricity?	How many households have access to refuse removal?
Buffalo City	125787	95	219797	221169	23	52909	78032	161431
City of Cape Town	567481	362	897965	897965	545	897965	369060	706205
City of Johannesburg	493939	145	266246	414231	103	27445	22580	1001550
City of Tshwane	411773	359	618739	775660	1220	314500	213000	823388
Ekurhuleni	390969	1142	902332	908293	88	460204	208835	695987
Ethekwini	689270	895	699258	818201	227	613674	124883	945910
Mangaung	187328	33	115179	172500	21	23367	29744	206650
Nelson Mandela Bay	273311	122	295177	325302	127	76396	64555	317760

Reply:

(a)(i),(ii),(b)(i)(ii) Please refer to the table below.

No	(i) Department	(ii) Entities
		Commission	Ingonyama Trust Board
(a) Spent 2015/2016	R22 253 497.98	19 808 488.45	382 921.00
(b) Budgeted 2016/2017	R17m	4 649 000.00	361 874.00

Reply:

No. There is no comprehensive date available but currently the Department relies on the information from South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drugs (SACENDU). According to data collected from treatment centers on people admitted to treatment services by SACENDU between January 2015 and June 2015, the following were finding:

NUMBER OF PEOPLE ADMITTED FOR TREATMENT SERVICES DURING JANUARY-JUNE 2015

Number of persons admitted for treatment services	Province
3524	Western Cape
4285	Gauteng
226	Limpopo
850	Mpumalanga
1122	KZN
74	Northern Cape
126	North West
366	Free State
363	Eastern Cape

Plans are underway in the current financial year to develop a system to collect data on the number of people accessing anti-substance abuse services during 2016/2017 financial year. The Department will further conduct research on the nature, extent and impact of substance abuse amongst communities in South Africa during 2016/2017 financial year.

Reply:

1. As of 23 May 2016 SASSA had a total of 339 contracted active medical assessors on its database nationally.

(a) The provincial spread of SASSA contracted assessors (doctors) is as below:

Province	Contracted Doctors
Eastern Cape	13
Free State	31
Gauteng	71
KwaZulu-Natal	75
Limpopo	39
Mpumalanga	31
Northern Cape	48
North West	27
Western Cape	4
TOTAL	339

 

(b) 8 doctors have not renewed their contracts.

(c) 14 doctors still have to sign their contracts

2. (a)

Province	Awaiting Assessment
Eastern Cape	0
Free State	3 800
Gauteng	3661
KwaZulu-Natal	7587
Limpopo	2322
Mpumalanga	1755
Northern Cape	150
North West	893
Western Cape	6797
TOTAL	26 965

In the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape it should be noted that assessments are largely conducted by the Department of Health doctors and SASSA merely contracts doctors where the Department of Health does not have the capacity to support social assistance disability assessments.

(b) SASSA assessed a total of 660 773 clients for social assistance disability during the 2015/ 2016 financial year, subsequent to them being booked for such assessments with a SASSA contracted medical assessor. The number of total

booked clients currently at SASSA nationally is 26 965 and the number reduces on

daily basis as SASSA conducts assessments continuously. None of the clients will be

booked more than 30 days from the booking date with about 95% to be assessed

within 2 weeks.

Reply:

Department of Rural Development and Land Reform

(a)(i),(ii) Yes.

(b) Not applicable.

(aa) Enterprises (small businesses and cooperatives) are supported with training and capacity building programmes for leadership, governance and business management. Agricultural enterprises and non agricultural enterprises are supported in terms of business plans developed. Support is provided for various activities business planning, feasibility studies, agro-processing, production, market access, arts and crafts, textile industry support, brick making and other financial and non financial assistance.

(bb) R390 million has been budgeted.

(cc) It is envisaged that 2540 jobs will be created.

Ingonyama Trust Board

(b)(i) No.

(b)(ii) Yes

(aa) To provide support to beneficiary communities to improve food security by crop production – under the Rural Development programme of the Trust.

(bb) R 9m for 2016/2017.

(cc) Community members are utilised on an adhoc basis for the construction of certain infrastructure and operations of the projects.

Reply:

(a) The hydrants are inspected daily.
(b) According to the City of Ekurhuleni, maintenance of fire hydrants within its area of jurisdiction is a Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) issue and there is a comprehensive programme being implemented throughout the year. In terms of this comprehensive program, a target of 50 000 hydrants must be inspected annually, and this was exceeded as depicted in the table below.

(c) The City indicated that they have appointed a Professional Service Provider (PSP) who is responsible for the maintenance and servicing of fire hydrants. The PSP has 220 fieldworkers who are responsible for the maintenance and servicing of fire hydrants within the City. The business process that the City has adopted requires a fieldworker to locate (some hydrants are underground and some above ground) the hydrant, mark with paint, service or maintain, and geo- code the location of the hydrant on a Global Positioning System (GPS). This approach requires at least five visits to each hydrant. In view of this, the City has outlined that it is difficult and cumbersome for them to indicate the date of the last visit to each hydrant as a single visit is not enough to locate, mark with paint, maintain or service and geo-code the hydrant. According to the City, work areas are divided in line with the operational fire districts, which cover more than one fire station precinct. The following numbers of hydrants have been located, marked with paint, serviced/ maintained, tested and geo-coded per Service Delivery Area:
 

Service Delivery Areas	Name of the Fire Districts	Number of Hydrants Serviced	Financial year (FY) Period
Service Delivery Area 1	• Alberton /Thokoza • Palm Ridge • Sonkesizwe	12 473	2013/2014
		12 620	2014/2015
		11 332	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 2	• Wadeville/Katlehong • Vosloorus	11 781	2013/2014
		2 305	2014/2015
		15 250	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 3	• Boksburg Central • Germiston Central	8 912	2013/2014
		5 036	2014/2015
		10 556	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 4	• Edenvale • Primrose • Bedford view	10 320	2013/2014
		5 777	2014/2015
		16 009	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 5	• Kempton park • Tembisa • Commercial • Olifantsfontein	6 544	2013/2014
		18 921	2014/2015
		14 104	201512016
Service Delivery Area 6	• Leon Ferreira • Farrarmere • Rynfield	8 735	2013/2014
		6 897	2014/2015
		20 262	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 7	• Brakpan • Benoni • Central Tsakane	8 292	2013/2014
		7 058	2014/2015
		16 516	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 8	• Springs • Daveyton • Etwatwa	9 213	2013/2014
		1 442	2014/2015
		16 097	2015/2016
Service Delivery Area 9	• Nigel • Duduza • Selection Park	8 946	2013/2014
		10 000	2014/2015
		16 097	2015/2016

Reply:

1.And (2) The Youngsfield Army Base was making use of any type of vehicle to assist the daughter of C SANDF when necessary, and did not specifically allocate a Mercedes Benz for this purpose. This only happened previously when the daughter was unable to get alternative transport. The daughter is now using her own vehicle as this was a temporary arrangement.

  (a) The specified army officer driving such luxury vehicle does not occupy any property at the army base.

3. The transportation was not on daily basis and no budget was allocated.

4. Not applicable

Reply:

There are various municipal officials and councillors who undertook international trips in the 2014/15 financial year and since 01 July 2015 in each metropolitan municipality. The following responses are from 6 metros who responded. The Department will forward input from the 2 outstanding metros once the information is made available.

The purpose of each trip, officials who undertook each trip, and the total cost of each trip including flights and accommodation in each metropolitan municipality is outlined in the attached Annexure below:

Reply:

(a) Refer to the table below for the amount spent on contracting consultants:

Name	(a)(i)(aa) 2014-15 financial year	(a)(i)(bb) 2015-16 financial year
My Department	R1, 109, 274, 032.30	R 560, 240, 080.17
Amatola Water	R 97 865 416.98	R 54 179 428.00
Bloem Water	R 39 000 000	R 26 000 000
Lepelle Northern Water	R4,900,000	R341,232,467
Magalies Water	R135 172 912.51	R 98 112 787.65
Mhlathuze Water	R2 031 137.77	R1 266 768.93
Overberg Water	R1,543,573	R1,505,433
Rand Water	R 613,275.51	R13,824,923.64
Sedibeng Water	R26 349 620,52	R56 461 967,20
Umgeni Water	R290 000 284.50	R,148 804 583.89
WRC	R 1 210 679.46	R 1 762 296.69
TCTA	R 227 667 114,28	R 216 631 089,72
Inkomati CMA	R5 995 644	R7 504 431
Breede-Gouritz CMA	R3, 063, 385.10	R5, 641, 394.18

(b) and (c) Refer to Annexure A for the names of the consultants and the consultants contracted for each project from my Department and Annexure B for the names of the consultants contracted for each project from each entity reporting to me.

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Reply:

(1) With reference to my reply to Question 833 on 12 April 2016, the estimated costs of damage to properties have increased by R151.532 million, totalling R459.835 million since October 2015.

University	Damages up to February 2016	Damages from March to May 2016	Total Damages
Cape Peninsula University of Technology	689 850	0	689 850
University of Cape Town	3 200 000	0	3 200 000
Central University of Technology	0	0	0
Durban University of Technology	0	0	0
University of Fort Hare	8 000 000	0	8 000 000
University of the Free State	2 800 000	2 432 300	5 232 300
University of Johannesburg	345 000	100 000 000	100 345 000
University of Kwazulu-Natal	82 000 000	0	82 000 000
University of Limpopo	1 786 295	2 306 837	4 093 132
Mangosuthu University of Technology	0	0	0
University of Mpumalanga	0	0	0
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	0	0	0
North-West University	151 000 000	0	151 000 000
University of Pretoria	0	30 000	30 000
Rhodes University	250 000	0	250 000
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University	0	0	0
Sol Plaatje University	0	0	0
University of South Africa	0	395 154	395 154
Stellenbosch University	352 000	1 069 000	1 421 000
Tshwane University of Technology	5 073 748	34 801 896	39 875 644
Vaal University of Technology	0	7 000 000	7 000 000
University of Venda	0	0	0
Walter Sisulu	351 287	0	351 287
University of the Western Cape	46 544 446	0	46 544 446
University of the Witwatersrand University	1 410 223	3 497 082	4 907 305
University of Zululand	4 500 000	0	4 500 000
Total	308 302 849	151 532 269	459 835 118

2. The Department is in the process of investigating which universities will be lodging insurance claims to cover some of the damage costs.

3. The Department has contributed an amount of R40.496 million towards damages at five historically disadvantaged universities, i.e. Universities of Fort Hare (R8 million), Zululand (R4.5 million), Western Cape (R25.858 million), Walter Sisulu (R351 287) and Limpopo (R1.786 million).

4. Four Universities, i.e. University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Limpopo, Tshwane University of Technology and the University of the Western Cape, have thus far lodged claims with insurers estimated at R106.917 million. Insurers have to date paid out R28.227 million.

 

COMPILER/CONTACT PERSONS:

EXT:

DIRECTOR – GENERAL

STATUS:

DATE:

QUESTION 1578 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED

Dr BE NZIMANDE, MP

MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING

STATUS:

DATE:

Reply:

Refer to the table below for amount owed to Magalies Water Board:

(a)(i)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)
Thabazimbi Local Municipality	R28 912237	More than 3 years	The municipality is experiencing cash flow challenges.	Unknown at this stage as the municipality is under administration.	The municipality has made a commitment to make a payment of R1 million per month until National Treasury has approved the finance recovery plan.
Modimolle Local Municipality	R2 390962	0	The account is on current	31 May 2016	N/A
BelaBela Municipality	R1 620436	0	The account is on current	31 May 2016	N/A

Refer to the table below for amount owed to Lepelle Northern Water Board:

(a)(ii)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)
Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality	R69,6m	120 days+	Availability of funds	By 2019	The settlement agreement is in place and adhered to by the Water Services Authority (WSA)
Capricorn District Municipality (CDM Urban)	R3m	Current	N/A	N/A
Greater Letaba Municipality	R1m	Current	N/A	N/A
Greater Tzaneen Municipality	R0.78m	Current	N/A	N/A
GSDM (Fetakgomo Local Municipality)	R6,4m	120 days+	Availability of funds		Negotiations with the WSA are taking place
GSDM (Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality)	R16,1m	120 days+	Availability of funds		Negotiations with the WSA are taking place
Marble Hall Municipality	R1,m	120 days+	Availability of funds		Negotiations with the WSA are taking place
Mogalakwena Local Municipality	R5,6m	Current	N/A	N/A
Mopani District Municipality	R249,6m	120 days+	Availability of funds	By 2019	The settlement agreement is in place and adhered to by the WSA
Polokwane Municipality	R13,4m	Current	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lepelle Nkumpi Municipality (CDM Rural)	R2M	Current	N/A	N/A
Greater Tubatse Local Municipality	R20,7m	120 days+	Availability of funds		Negotiations with the WSA are taking place

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Reply:

(1) No specific South African or Iranian companies were approached or selected for partnership on desalination. My Department has been working with various active actors nationally and internationally to examine the viability of desalination as an option in South Africa. Refer to Annexure A for the signed agreement.

(2) My Department’s International Engagement with Iran is based on the Bi-National Relations led by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation on issues of national interest for the benefit of the water sector.

(3) Yes, my Department has, through the Water Research Commission (WRC) conducted various studies over time to establish facts on the viability and benefits of desalination in the coastal areas of our country. The relevant details are contained in the study reports or outcomes backed by years of research by the WRC. Different actors and organisations and countries working on desalination were consulted by WRC both locally and internationally. Refer to Annexure B.

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Reply:

1. The Honourable Member is requested to note that the Provincial Committee on Disputes and Claims of Traditional Leadership in Mpumalanga did conduct an investigation with respect to the claim for traditional leadership that was lodged by Mr. ME Sukazi and others. The investigation was closed following the findings by the Committee.
2. Yes, a report was generated but was not presented to the affected parties as they did not dispute the findings of the Committee. However, a letter dated 18 February 2015 from the Office of the Premier in Mpumalanga was forwarded to Mr. ME Sukazi and others informing them of the outcome of the investigation.

Reply:

(a) (b) No.

Reply:

1. Any beneficiary noticing any (a) unlawful; (b) fraudulent and/or (c) immoral activity on his/her social grant must immediately report this to the nearest SASSA office. At the SASSA office, the beneficiary will be requested to complete an affidavit confirming that he/she did not purchase any advanced airtime, pre-paid electricity or take out a loan. This affidavit can be commissioned by the SASSA official attending to him/her. The SASSA official will then log the dispute and submit the affidavit to Cash Paymaster Services, to facilitate the refund of the money deducted and to blacklist that social grant account for any future purchases. In terms of the approved Dispute Resolution Mechanism, all cases must be dealt with within a time frame of 10 working days.

Alternatively, any beneficiary can call the SASSA toll free number 0800 60 10 11 and register a dispute. Again, that beneficiary will be requested to submit an affidavit confirming the dispute and that he/she did indeed not purchase any financial services or commodities. On receipt of the affidavit, SASSA will submit the dispute to Cash Paymaster Services, which has 10 working days in which to resolve the dispute.

2. SASSA has conducted a training programme for identified SASA staff within all provinces as well as those manning the call centre at Head Office, to ensure that they are aware of the procedures to be followed. The approved Dispute Resolution Mechanism has been made available to all staff as well as Cash Paymaster Services. In addition, SASSA is continuing with its communication programme through both print and electronic media (radio and television) to try to ensure that all beneficiaries are aware of the processes to follow, should they become aware of any untoward activity on their social grant.

SASSA is also appealing to community leaders and NGO’s to assist in directing any social grant beneficiary who may have experienced challenges with his/her social grant payment to the nearest SASSA office.

Notwithstanding these measures which have been put in place, notice should be taken of the amendments to the Regulations to the Social Assistance Act, Act 13 of 2004 which were published on 6 May 2016. These amendments make it clear that no deductions or EFT debit transactions, apart from these authorized in terms of the Regulation 26A for funeral policies which comply with the regulations, may be effected off the SASSA card account. This is effective immediately and should halt the type of challenges beneficiaries have been experiencing. Should any beneficiary with to have access to the stop order or debit order facility, that beneficiary will be required to open a commercial bank account, and request SASSA to transfer the social grant from the SASSA card account to the commercial bank account. This will be done at no cost to the beneficiary, who is then free to manage his/her bank account as he/she sees fit.

Reply:

(a) The National Department of Health does not have structured development programmes for (i) small businesses and (ii) co-operatives, however, as part of our Supply Chain Management approach the procurement of goods and services is executed in line with the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act No 05 of 2000 and its associated Preferential Procurement Regulations of 2011, with the purpose of enhancing the participation of Historically Disadvantaged Individuals (HDIs) and the small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the public sector procurement system. The basis of the current position within the department is informed by the legislative environment of public sector procurement which currently does not allow for “set asides” procurement approach.

(aa) This is not applicable to the department since no structured development programmes for (i) small businesses; and (ii) co-operatives exist within the department.

(bb) Whilst the department does not have an approved policy of dedicated spend on (i) small businesses; and (ii) co-operatives, the department budget for the procurement of goods and services for 2016-17 is R 1 453 613 000.00 of which 30% will be utilized for SMMEs' and Co-operatives where applicable.

(cc) This is not applicable to the department since no structured development programmes for (i) small businesses; and (ii) co-operatives exist within the department.

(b) None of the entities reporting to the Minister of Health are running development programs for (i) small businesses and (ii) co-operatives as this does not fall within the legal mandate as outlined in the entities enabling legislation.

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Reply:

(1) No.

(2) No.

Reply:

I have been informed by South African Airways (SAA) that:

The employee was put on a precautionary suspension, based on serious allegations of misconduct levelled against her, which remain a subject of a current pending internal investigation. Full reasons for the suspension of the employee are clearly set out in the correspondence exchanged between SAA and the employee’s duly appointed legal representatives. There is no specific statute or legislative framework that regulates the suspension and/or provides grounds for the suspension of this employee. The requirements for a valid precautionary suspension are fully enunciated in common law and, such requirements had been fully complied with and met by SAA in dealing with this particular matter. The employee has a contractual employment relationship with SAA and is subject to the Disciplinary Code like all other employees. Most importantly, the Labour Relations Act, Act No. 66 of 1995 (LRA) governs and regulates the employment relationship between the employee and SAA, and thus, should the employee be aggrieved by the decision to place her on precautionary suspension, pending an internal investigation, she is at liberty to invoke the relevant provisions of the LRA for an appropriate relief. This remains an operational matter.

Reply:

The following information was provided by South African Airways (SAA).

The certain person (name furnished) (a) was not and (b) is not currently on any SAA no-fly list.

Reply:

Data for mental health care patients attended to is collected in the District Health Information System in terms of ambulatory attendees and hospital admissions - rather than primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Tables 1, 2 and 3 reflect ambulatory attendees and hospital admissions. The available data for 2016 is only up to February 2016. Data for the later months is still being collated.

(a), (b) and (c) (i) (aa)

Table 1.

Province	Attendees at ambulatory (Non inpatient) services for mental health conditions in 2014	Total number of clients admitted for mental health conditions in 2014
Eastern Cape	398950	7244
Free State	113827	2608
Gauteng	422765	4812
KwaZulu-Natal	583737	8445
Limpopo	276026	7097
Mpumalanga	3175	3286
North West	135942	3418
Northern Cape	64423	991
Western Cape	206161	13697

(a), (b) and (c) (i) (bb)

Table 2

Province	Attendees at ambulatory (Non inpatient) services for mental health conditions in 2015.	Total number of clients admitted for mental health conditions in 2015
Eastern Cape	306699	8112
Free State	49021	2199
Gauteng	254593	7314
KwaZulu-Natal	569331	9301
Limpopo	243015	7383
Mpumalanga	2142	2723
North West	81115	3360
Northern Cape	51175	1397
Western Cape	213772	16696

(a), (b) and (c) (ii)

Table 3

Province	Attendees at ambulatory (Non inpatient) services for mental health conditions in 2016 (January and February only)	Total number of clients admitted for mental health conditions in 2016 (January and February only)
Eastern Cape	42076	1579
Free State	3679	301
Gauteng	16506	1393
KwaZulu-Natal	92292	1599
Limpopo	36663	1113
Mpumalanga	306	490
North West	9211	495
Northern Cape	7439	222
Western Cape	32824	3188

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Reply:

I have not attended any meeting with the Gupta family or anyone else at their Saxonworld Estate. I have encountered one or more members of his family at public events on a few occasions, eg a cricket match. I have met one of the Gupta brothers at Mahlamba Ndlovu around 2009/10 during which a brief discussion on small business finance took place.

Reply:

Cost of South African Business Incubation Conference

1. (a) and (i) The total costs for staging the SA Business Incubation Conference was R 4 383 375 (ii) (aa) The department did not cover any costs for the conference (bb) seda contributed a total amount of R 3 479 379 to the conference ,the other agency sefa, reporting to the department did not cover any costs for the conference. (b) The conference organisers were paid R 259 850 to organise the said conference;

     2. Yes, sponsorship was raised, (a) the names of the sponsors are listed in the table below; (b) the amount paid by each sponsor is specified in the table below;

Sponsor Name	Contribution
Vodacom	R 400 000
Exhibition stands sold	R 482 000
New Generation Mindset	R 22 000
Total	R 904 000

Reply:

(a) The properties identified to be transferred to the tenants are located in Gauteng Province. sefa’s Board of Directors has approved a resolution to transfer the ownership of the properties to qualifying tenants. The preferred tenant representative organization, Gauteng Province Industrial Parks Association (GAPIPA) and OWIPA (Orlando West Industrial Property Association) and sefa are currently in discussion to formulate and agree on the process to be followed in transferring the ownership of the properties to the existing tenants.

The Township Industrial Parks are:

Industrial Park	Registered Owner
1.	Orlando West Industrial Park	sefa
2.	Atteridgeville Industrial Park 1	Tshwane Metro
3.	Atteridgeville Industrial Park 2	Tshwane Metro
4.	Sebokeng Industrial Park 1	Business Partners Ltd.
5	Sebokeng Industrial Park 2	Business Partners Ltd.
6.	Vuka Tsoga Industrial Park	sefa
7.	Mamelodi Industrial Park 1	Tshwane Metro
8.	Mamelodi Industrial Park 2	Tshwane Metro

(b) The transferring attorneys, Kokinis Inc. are currently in the process of transferring these properties to Khula Business Premises Ltd. (100% subsidiary of sefa), where these properties will be housed.

(c) This process is anticipated to be completed by September / October this year. Once this is done, sefa will commence with negotiations for the sale of properties to the tenants. The process of transfer of ownership to the tenants is being negotiated with GAPIPA and their respective affiliates currently.

It is important to note that these properties were not designed and developed with the intention to sell to individual tenants at the time. The cost of subdivision may end up being substantial. It is for this reason that sefa is engaging with tenants representative bodies and together try and ascertain the most suitable way to transfer the properties and also ensuring that all the tenants hold equity (ownership) equivalent to the square metres and portion(s) they are occupying / renting. The recipients (tenants) of the properties will be notified of the obligations, both financially and legally, of owning a fixed commercial property.

Reply:

(a) (i) R10,633,337.38;

(ii) The table below reflects the details in this regard

ENTITY	EXPENDITURE
Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC)	R1,189,948.39
South African Medical Research Council (MRC)	R448,741.39
National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS)	R1,929,655.89
Council for Medical Schemes (CMS)	R1,146,219.06

(b) (i) R14,924,000.00

(ii) The table below reflects the details in this regard.

 

ENTITY	EXPENDITURE
Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC)	R2,300,000.00
South African Medical Research Council (MRC)	R437,470.00
National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS)	R2,500,000.00
Council for Medical Schemes (CMS)	R320,000

END.

Reply:

1. SA Women's Auxiliary Services Memorial Hospital in Janesville in the Eastern Cape does qualify to have a full time medical doctor on its staff.

   (a) Not applicable;

   (b) The hospital qualifies for a medical officer with an MBCHB Degree and experience as a generalist.

   (c) The community that is served by the specified hospital should access a doctor at the hospital.

2. The hospital has a full- time doctor who is not on contract.

3. The doctor has not been given any notice of termination of employment.

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Reply:

(1) & (2) No

Reply:

1. (a) No. And no to all subsequent sections to the question.

(b) Yes. The DDG: Tax Policy and Financial Regulations was requested by the Minister to brief the study group on certain items that were before the parliamentary committees.

    (i) Yes

    (ii) Yes

    (aa) To discuss legislation before the parliamentary committees

     (bb) (aaa) LC August and T Plaatjie

            (bbb) Ministerial Parliamentary Liaison Officers

     (cc) Upon request, usually during Parliamentary sessions.

     (dd) Finance and Appropriation study groups

2. The Code of Conduct for Public Service (Chapter 2 of the Public Service Regulations, 2001, as amended) stipulates:

(a)        An employee may not does not abuse her or his position in the public service to promote or prejudice the interest of any political party or interest group (regulation C.2.7)

(b)        An employee must refrain from party political activities in the workplace (regulation C.3.7).

However, officials of a department may and should communicate with, and consult, relevant role players on policy and legislative proposals. Relevant role players include the study group of any political party for a Parliamentary committee. Furthermore, if a Minister is invited to a study group meeting in their capacity as the Minister, i.e. as a member of the executive, they may nominate an official to represent or attend on their behalf.

On the direction of the Minister, officials have also met Members of Parliament of various political parties to provide clarity on Legislative and policy matters.

Reply:

Question 1:

Whether she is aware of the dispute between Razoscan (Pty) Ltd and sefa as outlined in a letter to the Minister dated 14 March 2014 from the owner of Razoscan, Ms Mendiswa Mzamane. 

Reply: sefa is not aware of the letter or its contents by the said Ms. Mzamane to Honourable Minister Zulu. However, sefa would like to highlight the dispute with Ms Mendiswa Mzamane as follows:

Purpose of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd Transaction

The transaction was to export 15 (fifteen) containers of fruit (oranges known as Valencia) to one of the largest importers of fruit in Dubai, viz Floral Fruit LLC. Purchase orders were placed with Razoscan (Pty) Ltd in US Dollars for the fruit.

Stakeholders and Background

Razoscan (Pty) Ltd approached sefa for funding in February 2015 for loan facility of R3 200 000.00 (inclusive of Initiation fee & VAT) in order export of fruit (referred to as the “exporter”).

Floral Fruit LLC: large retail entity in Dubai (referred to as “the Importer”); who imports fresh fruit from most parts of the world. Clinched a deal with Razoscan (Pty) Ltd last year (2015) for Razoscan (Pty) Ltd to supply fresh fruit.

Cosmo Fruit (Pty) Ltd: a key player in the fruit industry in the Western Cape. An importer and exporter of fresh who was approached by Razoscan (Pty) Ltd to source fresh fruit from farmers in the Western Cape.

FNB: the commercial bank appointed by Razoscan (Pty) Ltd to overlook the flow of funds and proceeds resulting from the export of fruit.

N.B: Agreements are in place for the following: importer and exporter; exporter and fruit supplier; sefa/FNB and Razoscan (Pty) Ltd.

Background

After battling for over 5 (five) months to get all the required information to put together the deal, sefa’s Investment Officer presented the deal to sefa’s credit committee in June 2015. The deal was declined after sefa had followed its normal systems and procedures in the assessment of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd’s application for funding based on the following reasons:

Poor profitability

Ms Mendiswa Mzamane, the owner of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd, showing inability to carry out the transaction and lack of adequate expertise and industry knowledge; and poor backup and no financial strength to carry out the transaction for a start-up business in the highly competitive sector.

Ms Mendiswa Mzamane, the owner of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd, appealed the “decline decision” and presented her model where she indicated how she will mitigate the risk. She was afforded two meetings where she presented her model. One meeting was held at sefa’s Centurion Head Office (attended by key sefa internal stakeholders). The other meeting was held at IDC offices where she also presented her risk mitigating factors. Key sefa stakeholders attended the meeting. FNB, who are her bankers and key players in the transaction, attended all meetings represented by Mr Richard Harvey.

Razoscan (Pty) Ltd’s application was finally approved by sefa in July 2015. By then the following key areas formed part of the deal:

• Suppliers: the new supplier of the fresh fruit was Cosmo Fruit (Pty) Ltd – owned by Ioannis Ntinos. Ms Mendiswa Mzamane, the owner of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd had already changed suppliers three times. sefa had to conduct due diligence on all of the suppliers;

• FNB as the commercial bank of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd had to oversee the export transaction. A Collection Agreement was signed between sefa, Razoscan (Pty) Ltd and FNB, in order to regulate the flow of the transaction and to agree on the parties respective roles and responsibilities; and

• Fruit: at approval there was only one type of fruit to be exported namely, Valencia (oranges). The agreement with Floral Fruit was to export 15 containers but only 1 was shipped.

Approval of the Deal (see below – Approval and Disbursement of Funds)

Loan Structure

Loan Structure	Total Rand value	R2 868 000.00 (excluding fees)
	Term	60 days
	Grace Period	n/a
	Grace Type	n/a
	Interest rate	Prime 9.25 + 5.75% = 15%
	Initiation Fee	5% of Loan (incl. VAT) = R163 476.00
Description of Business	Fresh fruit exporter to Dubai (UAE)

Approved and Disbursed Funds

Cost of 15 Fruit Containers (inclusive of cost freight/inspection/insurance, etc) R2 868000.00

sefa initiation fee @ 5% (inclusive of VAT) R 163476.00

Total Loan Value R3 031476.00

Disbursement Status

Instruction to make Disbursement of the amount of R2 868 000.00 was given by sefa at the instance of Ms Mendiswa Mzamane, the owner of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd to FNB in October 2015 to release the payment to Cosmo Fruit who would then take the funds and secure fruit from the farmers. Cosmo Fruit was thus paid an amount of R2 868 000.00 to secure the entire fruit of 15 (fifteen) containers.

Update on Export of one container and the awaited proceeds:

Only one container was shipped by Cosmo Fruit (who also assisted with the freight and loading).

The importer’s bank has not honoured the payment for the one container due to error from FNB with regard - to the payment instructions. FNB send payment instructions that did not match those agreed upon and as a result of this error the importer’s bank will not pay.

 

Ms Mendiswa Mzamane, the owner of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd, has since instructed her bank FNB to amend the instructions.

It was later discovered that Cosmo Fruit (Ioannis) has shipped the wrong fruit i.e. class 2 instead of class 1;

Ms Mendiswa Mzamane, the owner of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd, alleges that Razoscan (Pty) Ltd has a dispute with Cosmo Fruit (Pty) Ltd which is owned by Ioannis Ntinos.

Question 2:

If not, why not.

Reply: sefa and Razoscan (Pty) Ltd have entered into a legally binding loan facility agreement or an amount of R3 031 476.00 on 17 September 2015 and the whole loan facility has been to date fully disbursed in terms of the provisions of the loan facility agreement.

Question 3:

(3) If so, what steps is the Minister taking to investigate (a) the causes of the dispute and

Reply:

 (a) sefa is not aware of the specific dispute referred to in the letter dated 14 March 2014; and

(b) Razoscan (Pty) Ltd is currently in breach of the provisions of the loan facility agreement and sefa is proceeding with legal action against Razoscan (Pty) Ltd as well as against Ms. Mzamane, as the surety for the obligations of Razoscan (Pty) Ltd, arising from the loan facility agreement. Currently the legal process is underway. In conclusion, sefa’s rights shall at all material times remain reserved to protect its interest.

Question 4:

If so, what steps is the Minister taking to investigate (b) Ms Mzamane’s allegations of corruption at sefa which she claims has impaired her company’s ability to fulfil its obligations to clients?

Reply:

• sefa is not aware of the nature of the corruption claims alleged and/or made by

Ms. Mzamane in the letter dated 14 March 2014;

• • sefa is not aware of any corruption relating to Razoscan (Pty) Ltd application for funding

and the transaction; and

• sefa therefore has no basis to institute any investigation into the matter.

Reply:

(1)(2)(3) The National Treasury is invited by the relevant parliamentary committee Chairperson according to their programme and only the parliamentary committee is able to decide on its programme and any possible changes. The Chairpersons and / or Committee Secretaries do consult with the relevant ministries and departments on the availability of the Minister, Deputy Minister and also the representational departmental officials before finalizing an invitation. Therefore, I suggest that this request should be directed to the identified Committee Chairperson for comment.

Reply:

The following table reflects the details in this regard:

PROVINCE	TOTAL
Eastern Cape	12,911
Free State	5,846
Gauteng	15,511
KwaZulu Natal	12,233
Limpopo	9,600
Mpumalanga	1,797
North West	6,744
Northern Cape	1,402
Western Cape	19,254

END.

Reply:

(1) (a) The estimated numbers of Community Health Workers (CHWs) needed to serve 30 million poor people based on Upper Bound Poverty Line of Statistics South Africa, the number of CHWs currently deployed in all provinces and districts, the shortfall and surplus of CHWs are shown in the table below. The profiles of 52 health districts are presented.

Name of Province	No of CHW needed	No of CHW deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Eastern Cape Province	4,494	4,506		12
Free State Province	1,933	1,068	865
Gauteng Province	4,985	6,012		1,027
KwaZulu-Natal Province	6,475	4,410	2,065
Limpopo Province	3,911	2,244	1,667
Mpumalanga Province	2,536	890	1,646
North West Province	2,185	2,496		311
Northern Cape Province	664	828		164
Western Cape Province	2,563	2,180	383
Shortfall/Surplus Total			7,705	1,442
Total of all provinces	29,747	24,634	5,112

EASTERN CAPE
District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
A Nzo DM	578	456	122
Amathole DM	677	876		199
Buffalo City MM	433	150	283
C Hani DM	589	936		347
Joe Gqabi DM	260	270		10
Nelson Mandela Bay MM	652	450	202
O Tambo DM	1,031	1170		139
Sarah Baartman DM	275	198	77
Shortfall/Surplus Total			684	696
Eastern Cape Province	4,494	4,506		12

FREE STATE 

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Fezile Dabi DM	333	300	33
Lejweleputswa DM	442	138	304
Mangaung MM	459	144	315
T Mofutsanyane DM	592	408	184
Xhariep DM	108	78	30
Free State Province	1,933	1,068	865

GAUTENG

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
City of Johannesburg MM	1,737	1,698	39
City of Tshwane MM	1,067	1,749		682
Ekurhuleni MM	1,365	1,123	242
Sedibeng DM	468	847		379
West Rand DM	347	595		248
Shortfall/Surplus Total			281	1,308
Gauteng Province	4,985	6,012		1028

KWA ZULU-NATAL

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Amajuba DM	337	198	139
eThekwini MM	1,772	474	1,298
Harry Gwala DM	343	342	1
iLembe DM	416	312	104
Ugu DM	501	378	123
uMgungundlovu DM	594	486	108
Umkhanyakude DM	478	438	40
Umzinyathi DM	369	420		51
Uthukela DM	485	402	83
Uthungulu DM	600	426	174
Zululand DM	582	534	48
Shortfall/Surplus Total			2,118	51
KwaZulu-Natal Province	6,475	4,410	2,065

LIMPOPO

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Capricorn DM	872	235	637
Mopani DM	831	935		104
Sekhukhune DM	831	66	765
Vhembe DM	977	956	21
Waterberg DM	399	52	347
Shortfall/Surplus Total			1,771	104
Limpopo Province	3,911	2,244	1,667

MPUMALANGA

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Ehlanzeni DM	1,160	309	851
G Sibande DM	626	360	266
Nkangala DM	750	221	529
Mpumalanga Province	2,535	890	1,646

NORTH WEST

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Bojanala Platinum DM	834	798	36
Dr K Kaunda DM	410	534		124
Ngaka Modiri Molema DM	591	786		195
Ruth Segomotsi Mompati DM	349	378		29
Shortfall/Surplus Total			36	347
North West Province	2,185	2,496		311

NORTHERN CAPE

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
Frances Baard DM	212	222		10
J T Gaetsewe DM	153	240		87
Namakwa DM	60	108		48
Pixley ka Seme DM	116	246		130
ZF Mgcawu DM	123	12	111
Shortfall/Surplus Total			111	275
Northern Cape Province	664	828		164

WESTERN CAPE

District/Province	No of CHWs needed	No of CHWs Deployed	Shortfall	Surplus
City of Cape Town MM	1,622	1,100	522
Cape Winelands DM	381	180	201
Overberg DM	142	180		38
Eden DM	257	285		28
Central Karoo DM	80	105		25
West Coast DM	81	330		249
Shortfall/Surplus Total			723	340
Western Cape Province	2,563	2,180	383

(b) No province nor districts is currently employing Community Health Workers.

(2) (a) (i) and (ii) No province nor district is currently employing Community Health Workers. CHWs are deployed in the district through engagement with NGOs. In addition, the National Health Council is leading the process of developing an investment case so as to determine equity in resource allocation for each province in order to determine a model for formal engagement of Community Health Workers in public sector.

(b) The target will be reached when formal mechanisms of employment have been agreed on and implemented.

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Reply:

The following information was provided by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC).

The PIC does not hold any financial interest in certain companies (name furnished).

Reply:

(a) The NDA has funded 2612 Community Based Organisations and Non-governmental organizations since inception. However, in the last five years, a total of 485 NGOs/CBOs were funded for which have hereunder provided the responses. The status of all organisations since inception cannot be confirmed as The NDA Grant making process works with funded projects for a period of 12 to 18 months. During this period our relationship with an organization is regulated by a Funding Agreement between the NDA and the CBO/NGO. At the end of the funding period, the NDA would develop an exit/sustainability plan for the organization and then the formal relations between the NDA and the organization ceases.

(b) (i) Of the 485 organisations funded in the last five years, 452 are still operating and providing services to communities. A total of 33 NGOs/CBOs are no longer operational. (ii) The reasons for their lack of operation include lack of funding since the completion of NDA funding and governance challenges, including conflict within the organisations. (iii) The activities that they were involved in have been transferred to other organisations within the area. To mitigate the challenges faced by organisations the NDA in partnership with the Department of Social Development has implemented a capacity building programme since 2013 which has trained 4244 NGOs/CBOs in all provinces, including organisations that may not have been directly funded by the NDA. The capacity building will result in sustainability for the organizations and their service delivery capacity.

Reply:

(a) The Department of Arts and Culture’s Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) programme provides opportunities for small business and co-operatives in all creative industries sectors. The MGE strategy was initiated in 2011 to create cross-sectoral strategic investment mechanisms to overcome significant challenges with regard to job creation, market and audience development, skills development and research identified through sector research processes and also consultation processes with creative industry practitioners, businesses and organisations. The core of the programme comprises 10 work streams as follows:

MGE Objectives	Work streams
Audience development	Cultural Events Touring Venture Public Art Artists in Schools
Building Demand	Art Bank Mzansi Golden Market Cultural Observatory Cultural Precincts
Human Capital Development	National Academy for the Creative Industries of South Africa (NACISA)

Under the auspices of this programme, and the National Academy for the Creative Industries South Africa (NACISA) workstream, the Department of Arts and Culture’s 6 performing arts entities run incubator programmes for arts entrepreneurs. The details per institution are outlined in the table below.

DAC Business Development Programmes

	Question 1aa	1bb	1cc
MGE Workstream	Description	Budget 2016/17 (in ZAR)	Jobs Created
Cultural Events	The programme supports festivals, exhibitions, productions and other cultural events across the country through national and regional flagships programmes and open calls. Enterprises supported include companies, co-operatives, non-profit organisations and individuals.	162,032,000	Across all workstreams it is anticipated that 15,000 work opportunities will be created
Touring Ventures	The programme supports participation by South African artists in local and international platforms including festivals, Cultural Seasons, biennales, conferences through identified programmes and open calls. Enterprises supported include companies, co-operatives, non-profit organisations and individuals.	28,500,000
Public Art	The programme supports public art programmes and infrastructure across the country through flagships programmes and open calls. Enterprises supported include companies, co-operatives, non-profit organisations and individuals.	8,000,000
Artists in Schools	Individual artists are provided with opportunities to join teachers in the classroom to enhance the teaching and learning experience through the formal curriculum of learners in identified primary and high schools in all nine provinces.	12,000,000
Art Bank	The Art Bank in 2016/17 will begin commissioning and purchasing contemporary visual art works from artists and galleries across the country for exhibition and rental by government agencies and private sector stakeholders.	6,000,000
Mzansi Golden Market (Sourcing Enterprise)	The MGM portal will be fully launched in 2016/17, providing all arts enterprises with opportunities to profile their organisation and work on an online portal.	1,000,000
Cultural Observatory	The Cultural Observatory will conduct research and impact studies across the creative industries that will inform policy and programming, and also provide the sector with insights into business and other opportunities in the sector.	16,000,000
Cultural Precincts	Support will be provided to the development infrastructure in cultural precincts as designated spaces for the production and consumption of the arts.	12,500,000
National Academy for the Creative Industries of South Africa (NACISA)	Artists and enterprises will be provided with training opportunities through identified programmes including the incubator programmes offered by the performing arts institutions as outlined in the table below.	31,569,400

A portion of these funds will directly benefit small business and co-operatives in the sector as these organisations are eligible for financial support in terms of the funding criteria of the DAC for the MGE programme.

Public Entity Business Development Programmes

1. Performing arts institutions

As outlined in the Estimates of National Expenditure, through their core programming, the 6 DAC performing arts entities will

Programme	Target Number	Budget (in ZAR)
Annual productions	205	124,031,000
Annual festivals	14
Skills and training development programmes	50	23,300,000 (A portion of this will be spent on skills development & training)

A portion of these funds will directly benefit small business and co-operatives in the sector.

The incubator programmes, delivered in partnership with the DAC are as follows:

ENTITY	PROGRAMME	DESCRIPTION	BUDGET 2016/17	OUTPUT PER CYCLE
Market Theatre	Community Theatre Practitioners Incubator Programme	The proposed Community Theatre Practitioners Incubator Programme will concentrate on improving the skills of community based writers, directors and actors and empower them with the necessary skills to enable them to create and produce works of high standard and of local content. The Incubator Programme will train the next generation of the community arts leaders, arts entrepreneurs and administrators and expose them to the creative and practical sides of the industry and what is required to produce a professional theatre piece. The Incubator Programme will provide the group leaders (usually the writers and directors) with specialised training and resources to acquire additional and enhanced skills that will enable them to improve the quality of their work and their leadership which will ultimately be of benefit to the group and the new plays they are creating.	1,600,000	10 Writers 10 Directors +/- 80 Community Arts Practitioners Incubated 10 Plays of local content
	DAC Incubator Photography Programme	The Market Photo Incubator intends developing an on the job based photography programme as a platform from which photographers at a relatively progressed level might enhance and refine their practice, while learning additional skills through the guidance of established practitioners, curators and administrators. Aimed at emerging photographers, the Programme is envisaged as a transfer of skills, experience, knowledge and professional practice that might shift talented photographers into a more advanced stage. The incubation Programme further offers an administrative directed opportunity in photography, affording the incubates skills and credentials that facilitates independent thought, ensuring high levels of competence, commitment and reliability.	1,600,000	10 Photographers Incubated. 10 annual fully developed projects that will take the form of an exhibitions and publications. Projects engaging with the public and communities through photography. Publications, as reflection of overall activities.
Windybrow Theatre	Emerging Theatre Practitioners Incubator Programme	Windybrow Theatre’s Emerging Theatre Practitioners Incubator Programme will engage with emerging and/or mid-level theatre practitioners – directors, designers, stage managers and actors - and offer them areas of opportunity to work one-on-one with a professional mentor over a 4 month period towards the staging of a fully developed script of their choice. This incubation process will result in the creation and staging of 5 new works of local content annually.	1,600,000	4 fully fledged theatre productions of local content per year. 4 professionally trained directors per year with the creative and business skills to develop sustainable careers in the theatre industry and contribute to production of exciting new South African work on the country’s stages. 12 fully trained designers in set, costume and lighting design per year. 4 fully trained production managers per year 4 fully trained stage managers per year. 24 fully trained actors per year (+/-6 actors per production)
The Playhouse Company	Playhouse Dance Residency Incubator Programme	The Residency Incubator programme aims to develop 8 dancers annually and these dancers will create 4 new locally inspired pieces for 4 seasons, tapping into a wide range of dance repertoire which consists of a schools programme, New Stages, South African Women’s Arts Festival and the Festive Season programme. With assistance from The Playhouse Company, the Dance Residency also receives mentorship from established arts administrators.	1,600,000	x4 seasons x4 Productions of Local Content x8 Dancers Incubated
	Playhouse Actors' Studio	A core company of twelve actors is engaged as part of The Playhouse drama residency/ incubation programme. This fully-fledged annual programme provides incubation and advancement in the industry for suitably talented actors. Established performing arts professionals would contribute to the work of the residency by teaching masterclasses. The actors will also feature in existing seasons at the Playhouse i.e New Stages, the South African Women's Arts Festival, Children's Theatre, Schools seasons as well as in the Playhouse Community Arts Mentorship Programme etc.	1,600,000	x12 Actors incubated x4 New local Productions Participation in 4 platforms
ArtsCape	Creative Capacities Incubator	Creative Capacities Incubator (CCI) is aimed at 15 arts organisations across performing arts disciplines towards a well-rounded programme that supports the establishment of healthy arts business practice that is sustainable, efficient and professionalised. The potential for the existing organisations in the landscape to contribute significantly to the turning around of the status quo which is dominated by eternal volunteerism at the expense of the constitutional right of every citizen of South Africa to participate in the economy, as set out in the NDP and other such efforts by our government as aspirations towards social cohesion was identified to be and still continues to be underutilised and unexplored. Parallel to that is the existence of such models that are somewhat successful but are driven by the privileged, accessing government funding and donor funding; etc. on behalf of the marginalised and keeping them at the level of dependent beneficiary eternally. The project seeks to challenge this by means of capacitating to disrupt the norm significantly.	1,600,000	x80 Individuals capacitated Min 30 content created which is either written and or performed. x15 fully incubated Arts Marketers per cycle x15 fully incubated technical and lighting technicians
State Theatre	Indie Spotlight Incubator Programme	Independent theatre practitioners in and around the province would be offered a venue where they could stage their productions at no cost. The State Theatre will provide available resources like décor, costume, human resource and technical skills, mentorship, and marketing – with the caveat that the productions be competent enough to be able to draw and sustain a respectable audience. The independent producers would then go into a deal with the State Theatre, where box office returns would be split 80 or 70 % to the independent producers and 20 or 30% to the State Theatre. Such a box office split would serve as a driver for the independent producers to try and achieve a full audience capacity for their productions as this would satisfy their profit principle, and this in turn would serve to benefit the State Theatre with attracting new audiences and increasing its declining audiences.	1,600,000	x20 New production per cycle x20 Groups with +/- 4 individuals per group incubated. Skills transfer from State Theatre technical skills to incubates. 2 Weeks Season per organisation. Possible recording and editing of a DVD of the production.
	The Precinct Programme	The Precinct Incubator Programmes aims to establish talented Artists and bands within the local community. The programme will screen bands through a panel of judges and the winning band will be incubated for 3 month and with the output being a completed album. Through the 3 months recording period, the band or artist will be mentored by industry professionals that will be strategically selected based on the genre of music that the winning band produces.	1,600,000	x4 Completed market ready Albums. x4 New demos for artist that place in 2nd place. +/- 10 individuals incubated and capacitated. Opportunity created for artist to perform at State Theatre Jazz and African Nights.
PACOFS	Operation Vulindlela Incubator Programme	Over the next year, the aim is to successfully provide Resources and Practical experience to 6 local theatre productions, 12 Music Groups or individuals and employ approx. 12 facilitators to host the Workshops and Masterclasses. The programme will provide on-hand incubation to artists that make it through the selection process in developing their projects or creating new content and PACOFS will provide tools of production and platform to showcase their content. The incubator project will present 6 Exit productions for 12 music groups at the end of each cycle as part of the First Stages Festival. Incubates will also be afforded opportunities to participate in various other projects within the province as part of our Current Artistic Development program.	1,600,000	x6 Local Theatre Production. Incubate 12 music groups or individual productions Participation in various festivals organised by PACOFS
Total Incubators for 2015/16 FY	Total Individuals Incubated or Capacitated in 2015/16 FY
6 Incubators to be launched by July 2015	406
Total Incubators for 2016/17 FY	Total Estimate of Individuals Incubated or Capacitated in 2016/17 FY
6 Incubators functional in 2016/17	406

1. Development Agencies

As outlined in the Estimates of National Expenditure, through their core programming, the Development Agencies will support:

Entity	Programme	Target Number	Budget (in ZAR)
National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF)	Local content scripts developed annually	66	53,495,000
	Local content films developed annually	38
	Bursaries provided for film & video studies annually	63
	Film festivals supported annually	16
National Arts Council	Individual artists supported annually	212	26,725,000
	Arts programmes developed & successfully implemented annually	8
	Flagship creative arts projects financially supported annually	3
	Arts organisations receiving 3 year funding on an annual basis	91

A portion of these funds will directly benefit small business and co-operatives in the sector as these organisations are eligible for financial support in terms of the funding criteria of the NFVF and NAC.

Reply:

The question by the Honourable member should be directed to the National Treasury. The National Treasury manages the expenditure and the budgets of municipalities in line with the provisions in the Municipal Finance Management Act. Municipalities report budgetary matters in terms of s71 of the MFMA and are best placed to respond to matters relating to budget and expenditures of all municipalities.

Reply:

1.I am advised that a total number of 73 entities responded with written comments to the proposed amendments to the Price Preference System (PPS) on the Exportation of Ferrous and Non-ferrous Waste and Scrap Metals published in Government Gazette notice R.1211 on 11 December 2015.

(2) (a) Oral submissions have been heard by the Commission (ITAC) and were
made by the following entities:

• Metal Recyclers Association (MRA).
• Recycling Association of South Africa (RASA).
• Non Ferrous Metal Industries Association of SA (NFMIA) and the Aluminium Federation of SA (AFSA) in a combined presentation.
• SA Institute of Foundrymen (SAIF).

(2)(b) In the light of the fact that the process of evaluating the amendments is still underway it would not be appropriate to divulge the specific content of the oral submissions, save to say that in general, NFMIA, AFSA and SAIF were in support whereas the MRA and RASA objected to the amendments.

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Reply:

The responses below were received from the metropolitan municipalities:

All the Metropolitan Municipalities stated that they have a Municipal Public Accounts Committees.

The table below illustrates the responses to question (a), (b), (c) and (d) as per municipality.

Attached please find here: Table

 

Reply:

Due to the nature of the information required, an extension of time is hereby requested to enable us to provide an accurate and comprehensive response.

Reply:

(a) Research conducted:

(i) 2011/12

There were no research studies conducted during the year

(ii) 2012-13

1. Civil Society Organization’s participation in Food security Activities in South Africa (March 2013)
2. Civil Society Organization’s participation in Income generating Activities in South Africa (March 2013)
3. Challenges faced by Early Childhood Development Sector in the Country (April 2012)
4. A situational Analysis of Civil Society Organizations in the Western Cape (June 2012)

(iii) 2013-14

1. Funding Constraints and Challenges faced by Civil Society Organizations in South Africa (June 2013)

1. Framework for the Development of an annual state of development report (January 2014)

1. Civil Society Organization’s participation in the MDG processes in South Africa (January 2014)
2. State of poverty and its manifestation in the nine provinces of South Africa (March 2014)

(iv) 2014-15

1. Community development foundation framework &capacity Development framework (March 2015)
2. Enhancing active citizenry engagement in South Africa (March 2015)

(v) 2015-16

1. Enhancing civil society participation in the South African Development Agenda : The role of CSOs (December 2015)
2. South African government funding to non-profit organisations: what is the investment value? (February 2016)

(b) Research contribution

The research studies conducted by the NDA has contributed in new knowledge on how to improve programmes aimed at supporting the civil society sector, government planning and implementation of programmes for the civil society and making information available to the broader public through publications of the research in the NDA website. Some of the research has been used to inform debates and discussions with relevant organs of state for purposes of informing policy and programme planning. In addition, research reports are printed in hard copies and made available for the public in the NDA Provincial offices and NDA Advisory Centres. In addition, all NDA research reports are presented to a range of stakeholders, including civil society, government, private and international donors.

Reply:

Attached please find here: Reply
 

Reply:

One official, Dr Molefe Pule, Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Economic Development, accompanied me to Kigali, Rwanda for the World Economic Forum Africa.

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Reply:

(a) An amount of R500 000 000 has been made available for the social relief of distress programme for the 2016/17 financial year. Social relief of distress is a comprehensive programme which aims to meet the immediate material needs of citizens who experience a crisis. Food parcels are only one component of this programme. Social relief of distress may be provided in the form of food parcels, food vouchers, school uniforms, humanitarian support in times of disasters and/or cash, under certain circumstances.

(b) The social relief of distress programme is a needs driven programme, in that citizens who find themselves in such dire circumstances that they are unable to meet their or their family’s basic needs may apply for this assistance at SASSA offices and service points. In addition, where SASSA becomes aware of a disaster which has affected community members. The current drought is one such example of a natural disaster which may prompt the provision of social relief of distress.

It is therefore difficult to know in advance how many people will apply for this form of support. In terms of the Annual Performance Plan, SASSA has targeted to provide social relief of distress to 400 000 people. Of these, 160 000 are targeted for assistance in the first 2 quarters of the new financial year. However, it should be noted that these are projected numbers – the actual numbers will only be known when people come forward in response to a crisis situation. The numbers may be affected by natural disasters, which cannot be predicted, or economic circumstances in the country.

(c) Any social relief of distress is provided to South African citizens, permanent residents and refugees, who meet the criteria as set in the Social Assistance Act, Act 13 of 2004 and its Regulations. This means that every person who receives social relief of distress has gone through a screening and application process. These applications are available for audit.

The criteria which applicants must meet before they are considered for social relief of distress are that, in addition to the citizenship criteria, the applicant must have insufficient funds, and: meet one or more of the following-

Is awaiting payment of an approved grant;

The breadwinner has been assessed as being disabled for a period of less than 6 months;

The breadwinner of that household has died and application is made within 12 months of the death;

The breadwinner of that household has been admitted to a private or public institution for at least one month;

Where the refusal may cause undue hardship; or

The household has been affected by a disaster.

Social relief of distress is an on-going legislated programme which is budgeted for and implemented every year.

 

Reply:

(a) According to our records which are contained in the Infrastructure Reporting Model (IRM), Kwazulu Natal Province have sent their allocation for Provincial Roads Maintenance Grants (PRMG) though the department as the Transferring National Officer (TNO), have withheld the fourth tranche payment.

(b) The Department is engaging with the province together with National Treasury to rectify expenditure as reported on IRM while we are awaiting response from National Treasury for the approval of rollover funds withheld. Note that Provincial Treasuries manage rollover funds on behalf of National Treasury.

Reply:

The response below was provided by municipality:

(a) Following the recommendations of the Kabuso forensic report, the employment contracts of the Municipal Manager and Strategic Manager in the Office of the Mayor were terminated. Further, a committee was established consisting of councillors to address issues implicating councillors and an action plan was also submitted to Council in order to address issues implicating officials. This process is being coordinated by the Administrator.

(b) The municipality's legal representatives are engaging with those implicated with a view to recover the financial losses incurred by the municipality.

(c) I was not aware that the Kabuso report is supposed to be tabled in Parliament. The Administrator is dealing with this matter and would adhere to such a request.