Questions and Replies

Reply:

In view of the fact that the Minister for Women in the Presidency is responsible for the administration of the Commission on Gender Equality Act, 1993,( Act 39 of 1996) it is recommended that Honourable Member approach the Minister for Women in the Presidency for the said information.

The Commission for Gender Equality could further be approached directly for the submission of this information. Section 181(5) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, provides that the institutions strengthening constitutional democracy in the Republic, including the Commission for Gender Equality, are accountable to the National Assembly, and must report on their activities and the performance of their functions to the Assembly at least once a year.

 

Reply:

(a) Number of detectives employed:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	22	24	24	26	26
(ii) Gelvandale	53	54	55	53	49
(iii) Bethelsdorp	46	47	47	48	48
(iv) Temba	83	75	69	66	65
(v) Manenberg	48	44	46	45	40
(vi) Grahamstown	20	21	23	20	19
(vii) Cape Town Central	98	95	95	83	75

(b) (i) Vehicles allocated:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	12	12	12	14	14
(ii) Gelvandale	22	25	26	22	24
(iii) Bethelsdorp	19	19	17	16	17
(iv) Temba	28	35	34	31	36
(v) Manenberg	22	16	21	22	26
(vi) Grahamstown	30	31	31	23	17
(vii) Cape Town Central	40	42	46	46	47

(b) (ii) Vehicles operational:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	12	12	12	14	14
(ii) Gelvandale	20	21	22	20	21
(iii) Bethelsdorp	17	17	15	13	15
(iv) Temba	20	25	21	20	24
(v) Manenberg	20	15	20	21	22
(vi) Grahamstown	27	26	27	21	15
(vii) Cape Town Central	40	42	46	46	45

Reply:

(a) Total number of registered informers used during the given financial years at the mentioned police stations:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	14	15	16	16	15
(ii) Gelvandale	9	9	13	15	10
(iii) Bethelsdorp	7	6	4	6	6
(iv) Temba	28	60	66	67	66
(v) Manenberg	6	10	3	4	7
(vi) Grahamstown	26	13	16	6	5
(vii) Cape Town Central	30	32	32	10	25

(b) Allocated budget per mentioned station for the each of the given financial years as on the Polfin system:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot*	No allocation	No allocation	No allocation	No allocation	R50 000
(ii) Gelvandale	R92 202	R284 000	R281 150	R167 350	R136 800
(iii) Bethelsdorp	R3 000	R30 000	R38 500	R24 000	R85 000
(iv) Temba*	R100 000	R29 000	R0	No allocation	No allocation
(v) Manenberg	R120 000	R116 000	R34 100	R90 000	R62 200
(vi) Grahamstown	R90 000	R125 000	R52 600	R40 000	R35 000
(vii) Cape Town Central	R55 000	R54 100	R49 400	R32 900	R22 500

(c) Amount paid out to informers per mentioned station for each of the given financial years as on the Polfin system:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot*	0	0	0	0	R50 000
(ii) Gelvandale	R102 750	R284 000	R309 150	R175 350	R136 800
(iii) Bethelsdorp	R28 750	R73 000	R38 500	R30 550	R91 500
(iv) Temba*	R80 750	R34 000	R150	0	0
(v) Manenberg	R114 900	R77 000	R48 500	R39 900	R47 199
(vi) Grahamstown	R55 250	R42 500	R37 350	R27 850	R15 250
(vii) Cape Town Central	R50 300	R61 600	R55 900	R28 500	R26 000

* The budget for payment of informers in Gauteng is not allocated to individual stations, but is managed by the provincial office. Claims are submitted to the province for payment of informers and then captured on the Polfin system. The matter was discussed with the management of Gauteng to rectify the situation.

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Edenvale 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	302	310	330
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	58	41	19

 

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:

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 Primrose 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	429	209	203
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	242	85	77

Reply:

(a)(b)(c) and (d)(i) There are 176 Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Investigation (FCS) Units that render FCS services to all police stations in South Africa. These FCS Units render services at police stations in the clusters.

(a)(b)(c) and (d)(ii) Currently, 189 police stations do not have victim-friendly rooms. Please see annexure A for the name, cluster, municipal and provincial breakdown.

However, these police stations interview victims in private by using alternative rooms or making alternative arrangements.

‘Alternative room or arrangement’ means a vacant office or any other room situated at the police station or at another place such as a one-stop centre, Thuthuzela Care Centre or other suitable room in the vicinity of the police station, where a victim can be interviewed in private.

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Kempton Park 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	498	316	350
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	15	6	5

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:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Norkem Park 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	280	150	148
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	1	9	7

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Boksburg North 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	709	815	707
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	76	61	73

Reply:

(a) Average number of case dockets assigned to each detective at the given police stations per month in each of the given financial years are as follows:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	25	49	49	60	75
(ii) Gelvandale	51	57	56	43	38
(iii) Bethelsdorp	49	49	48	60	46
(iv) Temba	152	175	191	204	197
(v) Manenberg	57	137	102	121	134
(vi) Grahamstown	49	37	27	55	68
(vii) Cape Town Central	77	86	112	112	100

(b) (i) Total number of cases closed as undetected at the specific police station within each given financial year:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	2257	2033	2173	2674	3057
(ii) Gelvandale	1970	1728	2260	1720	1909
(iii) Bethelsdorp	3003	2809	2889	2635	2676
(iv) Temba	5601	4854	4102	5279	5387
(v) Manenberg	1787	2263	2561	2920	2093
(vi) Grahamstown	2928	2551	2194	1950	1515
(vii) Cape Town Central	11080	11540	11341	10938	10833

(b) (ii) The following number of case dockets registered at the specific police station went missing during the given financial years:

	(aa) 2011/2012	(bb) 2012/2013	(cc) 2013/2014	(dd) 2014/2015	(ee) 2015/2016
(i) Diepsloot	0	0	0	0	0
(ii) Gelvandale	0	0	0	0	0
(iii) Bethelsdorp	0	0	0	0	0
(iv) Temba	0	0	0	0	0
(v) Manenberg	0	0	0	0	0
(vi) Grahamstown	0	0	0	0	0
(vii) Cape Town Central	2	5	0	0	0

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:

(a) and (b)

Pretoria CAS 312/07/2015 – case against Mr Malebye, who was the Acting Director General of the Department of Public Works when the irregular appointments of the following consultants occurred:

• Minenhle Makhanya Architects
• R & G Consulting
• Ibhongo Consulting
• Igoda Projects (Pty) Ltd.

Pretoria CAS 314/07/2015 – case against Mr Vukela who was the Director General during the appointment of:

• Bonelena Construction
• Enterprise and Projects
• E Magubane CC.

Pretoria CAS 316/07/2015 – case against Mr Dongwana, who was the Acting Director General during the appointment of Beta Fence and SA Bullet Resistant Glass Company (Pty) Ltd.

On 28 July 2015, all these cases were nolle prosequi (declined to prosecute) by the National Prosecuting Authority.

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation wishes to put on record that there is no investigation against Mr M Makhanya.

Reply:

Maintenance shooting is an on-going training programme in the South African Police Service (SAPS) and members do their maintenance shooting annually to maintain their firearm competency in terms of Regulation 79(2)(b)(1) of the Firearm Control Act 60 of 2000.

(1)(a) Of the 77 SAPS members stationed at Boksburg North Police Station that were not competent, 65 have since done their maintenance shooting and were declared competent. 12 Members are still not yet competent and are scheduled to undergo their maintenance shooting as from 7 June 2016.

(1)(b) Members are deployed and confined to the Community Service Centre (CSC) whilst waiting to redo their maintenance shooting.

(1)(c) The members’ ranks are as follows:

Constables 9

Warrant Officer 1

Captains 2

(2) No. Currently there is no mandatory directive for members to attend shooting practice. However, members are encouraged to attend regular shooting practice sessions when logistical and operational commitments allow.

(2)(a) Not applicable

(2)(b) Not applicable

 

 

Signed LIEUTENANT GENERAL

DIVISIONAL COMMISSIONER: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

NS MKHWANAZI

Date:

Reply to question 1483 recommended

Signed LIEUTENANT GENERAL

DEPUTY NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

BC MGWENYA

Date: 1 June 2016

Reply to question 1483 recommended

Signed LIEUTENANT GENERAL

ACTING NATIONAL COMMISSIONER: SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE

JK PHAHLANE

Date: 3 June 2016

Reply to question 1483 approved/not approved

MINISTER OF POLICE

NPT NHLEKO, MP

Date:

Reply compiled by: Major General VR Vuma (Dr)

Telephone number: 012 334 3518/ 3689

Reply verified and approved by: Lieutenant General NS Mkhwanazi

Telephone number: 012 334 3728

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:

1. The South African Police Service is not structured according to the District 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:

Joe Gqabi District Municipality
(a) Police Station	(b) Total Actual Personnel
Aliwal North	130
Burgersdorp	60
Elands Height	15
Floukraal	15
Jamestown	33
Katkop	43
Maclear	44
Maletswayi	55
Mbizeni	21
Mount Fletcher	110
Steynsburg	35
Tabase	29
Ugie	45
Venterstad	41
Zamuxolo	28

Joe Gqabi District Municipality
STATION	Total Actual Vehicles	Vehicles Recommended for board	Vehicles in Workshop	Grand Total
Aliwal North	25	2	13	40
Burgersdorp	15	2	4	21
Elands Height	5			5
Floukraal	2		2	4
Jamestown	8	1	3	12
Katkop	13			13
Maclear	8	3	6	17
Maletswayi	11	1	3	15
Mbizeni	9			9
Mount Fletcher	31	1		32
Steynsburg	5		4	9
Tabase	11			11
Ugie	3	1	8	12
Venterstad	5		3	8
Zamuxolo	7			7

(2)(a)(i) Yes

(2)(a)(ii) Yes

(2)(a)(iii) Yes

(2)(a)(iv) Yes

(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	Burgersdorp	2
	Jamestown	1
	Maclear	5
2012	Burgersdorp	1
	Maclear	8
2013	Burgesdorp	5
	Maclear	5
	Ugie	5
2014	Aliwal North	2
	Burgersdorp	5
	Maclear	6
	Mount Fletcher	3
	Mount Fletcher	1
	Ugie	4
1 January 2016 to 30 April 2016	Not applicable	None

(2)(b)(ii)

Year	Police Station	Reason for apprehension
	Charge	CAS
2011	Burgersdorp	Murder	CAS 90/05/2011
	Jamestown	Burglary at business	CAS 25/01/2011
	Maclear	Armed Robbery; Theft of motor vehicle; Rape	CAS 67/08/2011; CAS 152/03/2011
	Maclear	Car Hijacking	CAS 39/07/2011
2012	Burgersdorp	Murder	CAS 58/05/2012
	Maclear	Armed Robbery; Possession of presume stolen property; Assault GBH; Housebreaking and theft	CAS 152/03/2011; CAS 126/12/2011; CAS 5/04/2012; CAS 129/06/2012
2013	Burgersdorp	Robbery; Assault GBH	CAS 113/12/2013; CAS 131/12/2013
	Maclear	Robbery; Possession of presumed stolen property; Murder; Housebreaking and theft	CAS 2/08/2013; CAS 65/05/2013; CAS 51/07/2013; CAS 79/04/2013
	Ugie	Robbery ; Murder; House Robbery	CAS 80/10/2012; CAS 81/09/2013; CAS 13/11/2013; CAS 22/05/2013
2014	Aliwal North	Shoplifting	CAS 129/05/2014
	Aliwal North	Theft	CAS 74/08/2014
	Burgersdorp	Assault GBH	CAS 81/11/2014
	Maclear	Robbery and Rape; Murder and Rape; Rape; Possession of unlicensed firearm	CAS 22/03/2014; CAS 57/07/2013; CAS 2/01/2014; CAS 4/01/2014
	Mount Fletcher	Stock Theft	CAS 131/10/2013
	Mount Fletcher	Theft of copper	CAS 90/03/2014
	Mount Fletcher	Housebreaking and theft	CAS 2/01/2015
1 Jan to 30 April 2016	None	Not applicable	Not applicable

(3)

Year	Police Station	Suspect apprehended again; if not, why not; if so after how long
2011	Burgersdorp	Yes, within 3 days
	Jamestown	Yes, within 24 hours
	Maclear	Yes, 1 within 48 hours and 3 within 3 years
	Maclear	No, police are still tracing the escapee
2012	Burgersdorp	Yes, within 48 hours
	Maclear	Yes, 4 within a week and 3 within 5 months
2013	Burgersdorp	Yes, 4 within 48 hours and 1 within 2 months
	Maclear	Yes, 1 within 5 days and 1 within 2 years, police are still tracing the other 3 escapees.
	Ugie	Yes, 4 within 24 hours and 1 within 2 months
2014	Aliwal North	Yes, within 24 hours
	Aliwal North	Yes, within 48 hours
	Burgersdorp	Yes, within 3 days
	Maclear	Yes, 4 within 6 days and 2 within a month
	Mount Fletcher	Yes, within 5 months
	Mount Fletcher	Yes, 1 within 7 months and 1 within 8 months
	Mount Fletcher	Yes, within 6 days
1 January to 30 April 2016	None	Not applicable

Reply:

According to the Crime Administration System (CAS) the following drug-related cases from Sebenza 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	152	200	251
(b) Successful conviction (guilty)	45	123	172

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:

The table below depicts fixed establishment of employees and actual personnel that worked at each of the specified stations in each specified financial years:-

Police Station	(aa) 2011-12	(bb) 2012-13	(cc) 2013-14	(dd) 2014-15	(ee) 2015-16	(c) Total Detective Services Vacancies 2015-16
	(a) Total FE *	(b) Total Actual **	(a) Total FE	(b) Total Actual	(a) Total FE	(b) Total Actual	(a) Total FE	(b) Total Actual	(a) Total FE	(b) Total Actual
(i) Diepsloot	96	40	99	130	99	140	111	133	111	140	0
(ii) Gelvandale	239	235	239	234	239	218	246	243	246	235	3
(iii) Bethelsdorp	200	194	200	199	200	199	203	197	203	211	0
(iv) Temba,	318	396	310	415	310	412	373	409	373	385	-33
(v) Manenberg	199	200	201	200	201	191	216	184	211	174	21
(vi) Grahamstown	280	273	282	276	280	256	168	159	168	151	-6
(vii) Cape Town	607	491	597	492	599	540	599	561	599	579	37

* Refers to fixed establishment.

** Refers to actual personnel.

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:

(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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

(a) (b) No.

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:

(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:

(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:

(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. (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:

(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.

END.

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:

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

END.

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:

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:

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:

(1) No.

(2) No.

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) 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.

END.

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) & (2) No