Questions and Replies

Reply:

(1) Yes the Choir still exists.

(a) Yes it is funded by the SABC.

(b)(i) R3 745 Million.

(b)(ii) R3 780 Million.

(2) SABC Choir does not sing songs about the said person during staff meetings.

Only one verse was sung in a single staff meeting with the lyrics “Hlaudi Motsoeneng reya o leboha”(“Hlaudi Motsoeneng we thank you”) . This verse was spontaneous and was not composed by the subject of the verse nor was it composed under his direction/ and or influence.

 

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

Reply:

(1) Yes there are completed projects, refer to Annexure A.

(2) Refer to Annexure B for the list with full details of each project that each of the specified Cuban engineers are currently working on and possible completion dates for each project.

(3) My Department has employed a total of 35 Cuban engineers.

(3)(i) The total salaries costs is R 10 417 974.00.

(3)(ii) The total accommodation costs is R 8 333 409.00.

(3)(iii) The total transport costs is R 581 901.00.

(3)(iv) The total of other expenses is R 529 447.00.

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Reply:

(a) The draft tender documents have been submitted to my Department for review prior to finalisation and approval.

(b) The scope of works for inclusion in the tender documentation remains the same as originally envisaged.

(b)(i) The cost of the construction for raising of the "dam wall" is based on the scope of works, which will not be affected by the time of preparing the tender documents.

(b)(ii) The anticipated completion date for the project remains set for the 2021/22 financial year.

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Reply:

1 (a) No inspection conducted at Chloorkop Primary School in Kempton Park, Gauteng.

   (b) Due to the fact that there was no inspection conducted, there are no findings.

   (c) There is no stipulation in the Occupational Heath and Safety Act regarding the frequency of inspections for any workplace and there is no other legislation.

(2) (a) Inspection will be conducted at end of May 2016.

(b) inspection reports are not made public in terms of Section 36 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act as amended.

Reply:

The State Security Agency (SSA) does not have development programmes for SMME’s or Cooperatives.

Reply:

(a) My Department owes Umgeni Water an outstanding balance of R86 622.19 as at 12 May 2016.

(b) Refer to the table below for the Age Analysis as at 12 May 2016:

Vendor Name	To 0 Days	30 Days	60 Days	90 Days	120 Days	150 Days	151+ Days	Total
UMGENI WATER	0.00	-86 622.19	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-86 622.19

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Reply:

No, the security nature of Home Affairs and Government Printing Works business is not geared towards development programmes for small business and cooperatives but we do provide direct contractual work to small business where applicable.

Reply:

1. Minister can confirm that he was in Dubai during the month of December 2015. This was a private trip and no business meetings took place.

2. A letter was sent to the Presidency requesting leave as well as advising of overseas trip. There was no response or specific brief as it was a Private trip.

3. This was a private trip and no official meetings were held.

Reply:

(a) Ministers private passport was used and stamped for:

    (i) entry into Dubai and

    (ii) exit from South Africa

(b) Minister travelled in his private capacity and the trip was paid for in his private capacity.

Reply:

(a) Refer to the table below for the number of water-use licenses that have been issued for mining purposes in each province in the 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 financial years.

PROVINCE	(a)(i) 2013/14	(a)(ii) 2014/15	(a)(iii) 2015/16	Total
EASTERN CAPE	0	0	0	0
FREE STATE	0	0	5	5
GAUTENG	2	4	6	12
KWAZULU-NATAL	1	2	7	10
LIMPOPO	0	0	9	9
MPUMALANGA	24	26	63	113
NORTH WEST	2	8	11	21
NORTHERN CAPE	4	8	17	29
WESTERN CAPE	0	0	0	0
Total	33	48	118	199

(b) Refer to Annexure A for the names of each company that received the specified licence, the product that is being mined in each case and the period of validity of each specified licence granted?

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Annexure A

No	Name	Region	year	product	Signed date	Expiry Date
1	Umthombo Resources (Pty) Ltd-Schoongezicht Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/04/06	2019/04/06
2	Xstrata Alloys: Carbon Division (Emalahleni Sites)	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/05/02	2018/05/02
3	Anglo American Thermal Coal: Goedehoop Colliery (South)	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/05/02	2033/05/02
4	Coal Of Africa (Pty) Ltd, Mooiplaats Colliery (Langcarel)	Gauteng	2013/14	Coal	2013/05/02	2033/05/02
5	Umcebo Mining - Doornrug Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/05/13	2017/05/13
6	Sudor Coal -Weltevreden Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/08/13	2018/08/13
7	Rockwell Diamonds	Northern Cape	2013/14	Diamond	2013/08/12	2033/08/12
8	Homeland mining& Energy SA (Pty) Ltd Kendal Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/08/13	2021/08/08
9	Welgelegen Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/09/18	2018/09/18
10	Vaaldorado Mining	Northern Cape	2013/14	Diamond	2013/10/03	2015/10/03
11	Pilansburg Platinum Mine (Pty) Ltd	North West	2013/14	Platinum	2013/10/10	2029/10/10
12	Kalagadi Manganese (Pty) Ltd	Northern Cape	2013/14	Manganese	2013/11/22	2038/11/22
13	Mintails Mining SA (Pty) Ltd: Mogale Gold	Gauteng	2013/14	Gold	2013/11/22	2038/11/22
14	Nkomati Joint Venture	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/11/22	2038/11/22
15	Analisa Mining and Industrial Services (Pty) Ltd: Lefa Coal Mine	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/04/08	2018/04/08
16	Assmang Chrome Dwarsrivier Mine	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Chrome	2013/10/04	2038/10/04
17	Wescoal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Intibane Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/04/06	2018/04/06
18	BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa (BECSA): Khutala Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/05/02	2030/05/02
19	Anglo Operations Limited: New Denmark Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/05/10	2025/05/10
20	Sasol Mining (Pty) Ltd : Impumelelo Mine	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/06/12	2033/06/12
21	Vunene Mining (Pty) Ltd: Usutu Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/06/21	2020/06/21
22	Msobo Coal (Pty)Ltd Tselentis Colliery (Ramp 9)	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/06/04	2033/06/04
23	Kusile Hirmine Norman Hirchowitz: Fentonia Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/08/07	2021/08/07
24	Umcebo Mining	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/08/07	2028/08/07
25	Msobo Coal (Pty) Ltd- Tselentis Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/08/08	2018/08/08
26	Tre Mineonox Kwazulu Natal sands (Pty) Ltd; Fairbreeze Mine	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2013/14	Sand	2013/09/09	2033/09/09
27	Ikwezi Mining (Pty) Ltd Doornkop/Ntendeka Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/09/09	2033/09/09
28	Xstrata- Merafe Ferrochrome and mining	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Chrome	2013/10/04	2033/10/04
29	Aquarius SA Platinum Mine (Pty) Ltd: Marikana Platinum Mine	North West	2013/14	Platinum	2013/10/04	2022/10/04
30	Mr. Christoffel Johannes Pienaar	Northern Cape	2013/14	Diamond	2013/10/20	2016/10/20
31	Anglo American Thermal Coal (Pty) Ltd Isibonelo Colliery	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2013/10/03	2033/10/10
32	Bio2Watt (Pty) Ltd: Bronkhorstspruit Biogas Plant	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Biogas	2013/10/10	2033/10/10
33	Exxaro Coal Pty Ltd: Matla Water treatment Plant	Mpumalanga	2013/14	Coal	2014/03/17	2034/03/17
34	Optimum Coal Holdings: Klipbank Section	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/06/18	2034/06/18
35	De Beers Consolidated Mines (Pty) Ltd: Kimberly Mines	Northern Cape	2014/15	Diamond	2014/06/18	2034/06/18
36	Tendele Coal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Somkele Anthracite Mine	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2014/15	Coal	2014/08/04	2034/08/04
37	Koornfontein Mines (Pty) Ltd: Koornfontein Process Plant	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/06/18	2034/06/18
38	Koornfontein Mines (Pty) Ltd: Gloria Section	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/06/18	2034/06/18
39	Koornfontein Mines (Pty) Ltd): Blinkpan Section	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/06/18	2034/06/18
40	Mission Point Trading 41(Pty) Ltd	Gauteng	2014/15	Gold	2014/07/29	2020/07/29
41	Orcon Brick (Pty) Ltd	Gauteng	2014/15	Clay	2014/07/29	2019/07/29
42	Sedibeng Iron Ore (Pty) Ltd	Northern Cape	2014/15	Iron Ore	2014/07/17	2039/07/17
43	Tronox KZN Sands (Pty) Ltd	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2014/15	Sand	2014/07/22	2034/07/17
44	Anglo American Inyosi Coal (Pty) Ltd: Kriel Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/07/23	2029/07/23
45	Canyon Resources (Pty Ltd: Hakhano Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/08/22	2034/08/22
46	Anglo American Inyosi Coal (Pty) Ltd: New Largo Colliery R545 Provincial Road Re-alignment	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/08/22	2024/08/22
47	Ingcambu Investment (Pty) Ltd: Thutsi Colliery	Gauteng	2014/15	Coal	2014/09/30	2015/01/30
48	Black Mountain Mining (Pty) Ltd: (Gamsberg Zinc Mine)	Northern Cape	2014/15	Zinc	2014/09/30	2034/09/30
49	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: North Block Complex	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/09/26	2031/09/26
50	Universal Coal Development IV (Pty) Ltd: Roodekop Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/09/26	2034/09/26
51	Xstrata South Africa (Pty) Ltd - Xstrata Alloys Rustenburg Works	North West	2014/15	Platinum	2014/09/26	2034/09/26
52	Sishen Iron Ore Company (Pty) (Kolomela Mine)	Northern Cape	2014/15	Iron Ore	2014/12/01	2034/12/01
53	Pretoria Portland Cement Company Ltd: Slurry Plant	North West	2014/15	Cement	2015/01/11	2035/01/11
54	Coastal Fuels (Pty) Ltd: Droogvallei Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2015/01/11	2021/01/11
55	Marubising Trading & Projects	Northern Cape	2014/15	Diamond	2015/01/11	2017/01/11
56	African Mining and Trust Company Ltd: Wonderstone Limited	Northern Cape	2014/15	Diamond	2015/01/11	2035/01/11
57	Anglo American Inyosi Coal (Pty) Ltd: New Largo Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2015/01/11	2045/01/11
58	Bakwena Platinum Corridor Consortium (Pty) Ltd	North West	2014/15	Platinum	2015/01/11	2050/01/11
59	Barberton Mines (Pty) Ltd: Sheba Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Gold	2015/01/11	2022/01/11
60	Glencore Operations (Pty) Ltd: Kroondal Chrome Mine	North West	2014/15	Chrome	2015/01/11	2040/01/11
61	Pretoria Portland Cement Co Ltd: Beestekraal Mine	North West	2014/15	Cement	2015/01/11	2018/11/01
62	Alexkor SOC Limited	Northern Cape	2014/15	Diamond	2015/01/11	2035/01/11
63	Glencore Operations (Pty) Ltd: Waterval East and West Chrome Mine	North West	2014/15	Chrome	2015/01/11	2040/01/11
64	Samancor Chrome Limited: Western Chrome Mines: Millsell and Waterkloof Sections	North West	2014/15	Chrome	2015/01/11	2040/01/11
65	Tegeta Resources and Exploration (Pty) Ltd: Brakfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/22	2029/12/22
66	Afrisam South Africa (Pty) Ltd: Ulco Operations	Northern Cape	2014/15	Cement	2015/01/11	2040/01/11
67	Keaton Mining (Pty) Ltd: Vanngatfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2015/01/11	2035/01/11
68	Transvaal Gold Mine Estate (Pty) Ltd: (Glynns Lydenburg)	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Gold	2015/01/11	2027/01/11
69	Transvaal Gold Mine Estate (Pty) Ltd: Rietfontein Underground Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Gold	2015/01/11	2032/01/11
70	Perisat Investments (Pty) Ltd: Rirhandzu Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/01	2024/12/01
71	ASA Metals (Pty) Ltd: Dilokong Chrome Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Chrome	2014/12/01	2034/12/17
72	Mafube Coal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Wildfontein Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/01	2019/12/01
73	Mafube Coal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Nooitgedacht Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/01	2028/12/01
74	Mafube Coal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Springboklaagte Pan 1&2	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/01	2017/12/01
75	Eskom Holdings Ltd: Kusile Power Station Project (Sibongindawo Primary School)	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/01	2054/12/01
76	MAC Group of Companies: Mactransco Railway Siding	Gauteng	2014/15	Coal	2015/01/12	2034/01/12
77	Benicon Mining (Pty) Ltd: Bankfontein Project	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2014/12/01	2019/12/01
78	Tshedza Mining Resources (Pty) Ltd: Manungu Colliery	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2015/02/23	2030/02/23
79	Wescoal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Elandspruit Coal Mine	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2015/03/28	2035/03/28
80	Krosa (Pty) Ltd: Sand mine	North West	2014/15	Sand	2015/03/28	2035/03/28
81	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: Grootegeluk Coal mine and Reductants (char)	Mpumalanga	2014/15	Coal	2015/03/28	2035/03/28
82	Namakwa Diamonds (Pty) LTD: Doornhoek Workings	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/04/19	2016/04/19
83	United Manganese of Kalahari (UMK) (Pty) LTD	Northern Cape	2015/16	Manganese	2015/04/19	2035/04/19
84	Crown Resources (Pty) LTD: (Kimberly Underground Mines Joint Venture)	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/04/19	2035/04/19
85	Tshipi e Ntle Manganese Mining (Pty) LTD	Northern Cape	2015/16	Manganese	2015/04/19	2041/04/19
86	Northern Coal (Pty) LTD: Weltevreden Coal Mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/04/19	2033/04/19
87	Onderberg Verwerkings Ko-Operasie Beperk	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/04/30	2030/04/30
88	Eagle Granite (Pty) Ltd	North West	2015/16	Granite	2015/04/30	2025/04/30
89	Just Coal (Pty) Ltd: Bankfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/05/08	2020/05/08
90	Puckree Group (Pty) Ltd: Bultfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/05/08	2020/05/08
91	Diamond Resources (Pty) Ltd: Kareevlei Mine	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/05/08	2027/05/08
92	Trollope Holdings (Pty) Ltd: Kleinwater Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/06/16	2017/06/16
93	Hoshoza Resources Vryheid (Pty) Ltd: Karobo Colliery	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2015/06/11	2022/06/11
94	Msobo Coal (Pty)Ltd- Goedverwachting	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/17	2019/07/17
95	Sibanye Gold Limited: Cooke Operations	Gauteng	2015/16	Gold	2015/07/17	2024/07/17
96	Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty)Ltd: Tweefontein Water Treatment Plant	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/16	2055/07/16
97	Ikwezi Mining (Pty) Ltd: Ngagane Coal Sliding	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/16	2050/07/16
98	Glenco South Africa (Pty): Ltd Impunzi Complex	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/16	2025/07/16
99	Eyethu Coal (Pty) Ltd: Leeupoort Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/16	2020/07/16
100	Phoenix Platinum Mining (Pty) Ltd	North West	2015/16	Platinum	2015/07/16	2035/07/16
101	Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga (Pty) Ltd: Matla Coal	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/16	2035/07/16
102	Maseve Investment II (Pty) Ltd Western Bushveld Joint Venture Project 1	North West	2015/16	Platinum	2015/07/16	2035/07/16
103	Glencore operations SA: Zonnebloem mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/07/16	2045/07/16
104	Iyanga Mining (Pty) Ltd: Klipfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/16	2020/08/16
105	Itireleng Bakgatla Mineral Resources (Pty) Ltd: Sedibelo Platinum Project	North West	2015/16	Platinum	2015/08/16	2035/08/16
106	Blue Nightingale Trading 817 (Pty) Limited: Sisebenzi Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/16	2020/08/16
107	Harmony Gold Mining Company (Kusasalethu and Deelkraal Operation)	Gauteng	2015/16	Gold	2015/07/17	2038/07/17
108	Northern coal (pty) Ltd: Jugtlust Mini Pit	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/25	2035/08/25
109	Sasol Mining (pty) Ltd: Borrow pits Project	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/25	2021/08/25
110	Sasol Mining (pty) Ltd: Irenedale Mine-Service Water Dam	Gauteng	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/25	2021/08/25
111	Anglo operations property limited acting through Anglo American coal division Greenside Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/25	2025/08/26
112	Royal Bafokeng Resources (Pty) Ltd: Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine	North West	2015/16	Platinum	2015/08/25	2035/08/25
113	Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited- Amandelbult Section	North West	2015/16	Platinum	2015/08/25	2035/08/25
114	Eyethu coal (pty) Limited :Mooifontein colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/08/25	2025/08/26
115	Schidtsdrift Communal Property Association	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/08/25	2025/08/25
116	Kebrafield (pty) Ltd: Roodepoort Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/10/08	2021/10/08
117	Kromdraai Coal (Pty) Ltd: Kromdrai Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/10/20	2017/10/20
118	Elandsfontein Colliery (Pty) Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/10/20	2020/10/20
119	Chamotte Holdings (Pty) Ltd: Scotia Talc mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/10/21	2035/10/21
120	Rooipoort Developments (Pty) Ltd: Rooipoort Mine	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/11/19	2035/11/19
121	Delmas Coal: Kuyasa Coal	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/11/19	2035/11/19
122	Messina Platinum Mine: Doornvlei	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Platinum	2015/11/19	2040/11/19
123	B and E International	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Sand	2015/11/19	2035/11/19
124	Sky Chrome Mining (Pty) Ltd	North West	2015/16	Chrome	2015/11/19	2029/11/19
125	Eyethu coal (pty) Ltd: Leeuwpoort colliery-T&DB SECTION	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/11/19	2019/11/19
126	Glencore south Africa (pty) Ltd-Glencore Alloys Wonderkop Operation	North West	2015/16	Coal	2015/11/19	2035/11/19
127	Cozispot (Pty) Ltd: Welgemeend Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/11/20	2050/11/20
128	Glencore Operations SA (Pty) Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2035/12/18
129	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: Leeuwpan Coal Mine IO and OL Expansion	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2035/12/18
130	Linarox (Pty) Ltd: Welstand Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2040/12/18
131	Wide Investments 100 (Pty) Ltd: Mashwening Iron Ore mine	Northern Cape	2015/16	Iron Ore	2015/12/18	2030/12/18
132	Scarlet Sun 15 (Pty) Ltd	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/12/18	2023/12/18
133	Wescoal Mining (Pty) Ltd: Intibane Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2020/12/18
134	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: Thabametsi Coal mine	Limpopo	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2035/12/18
135	Limpopo Coal Company (Pty) Ltd: Vele Colliery Mine	Limpopo	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2035/12/18
136	Henric Ferrochrome (Pty) Ltd: Maroelabult Section	North West	2015/16	Chrome	2015/12/18	2035/12/18
137	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: Grootegeluk Coal Mine	Limpopo	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/18	2040/12/18
138	Glencore South Africa (pty) Ltd : Tweefontein Road Re-alingnment Project	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/23	2035/12/18
139	Assmang (Pty) Ltd- Black Rock Mine Operations	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/10/21	2035/10/20
140	Ferrometals: A division of Samancor Chrome Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Chrome	2015/12/24	2035/12/24
141	Thaba Chueu Mining (Pty) Ltd	Limpopo	2015/16	Platinum	2015/10/21	2035/10/21
142	Baobab Mining and exploration (Pty) Ltd: Makhado Colliery Project	Limpopo	2015/16	Coal	2015/10/21	2035/12/18
143	Theta Mining (Pty) Ltd: Drooge Veldtalluvial Diamond Mine	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/12/24	2025/12/24
144	Glencore Operations SA (Pty) Ltd: Oogiesfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/24	2023/12/24
145	Koffiefontein Mine Joint Venture- Koffiefontein Mine	Free State	2015/16	Gold	2015/12/24	2025/12/24
146	Overlooked Colliery (Pty) Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2015/12/24	2025/12/24
147	Ezulwini Mining Company (Pty) Ltd: Cooke 4 Operation	Gauteng	2015/16	Gold	2015/06/11	2035/06/11
148	Sephaku Delmas Cement (Pty) Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Cement	2016/01/15	2036/01/15
149	New Diamond Corporation: Schimdtsdrift Mine	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/12/24	2035/12/24
150	BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa (Pty) Limited: Wolvekrans Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/01/22	2036/01/22
151	Universal Pulse Trading 132 (PTY) LTD	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/01/22	2020/01/22
152	Samancor Chrome (Pty) Ltd: Western Chrome Mines, Buffelsfontein Operation	North West	2015/16	Chrome	2016/01/22	2041/01/22
153	Anglo Operations (pty) Ltd: Elders Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/10	2016/08/10
154	Anglo Operations (pty) Ltd: Elders Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/10	2016/08/10
155	Anglo American Inyosi Coal (Pty) Ltd: Zibulo Colliery 23 km Dirty Water pipeline	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/22	2037/02/22
156	Anglo American Platinum: Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited: Mototolo Joint Venture	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Platinum	2016/02/22	2036/02/22
157	HCI Coal (Pty) Ltd: Nokuhle Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/22	2036/02/22
158	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: Iyanda Railway Siding	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/22	2056/02/22
159	Exxaro Coal Pty Ltd: Arnot Coal Mooifontein Portion 1,7 and 0 (Remainder)	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/22	2031/02/22
160	Shanduka Coal (Pty) Ltd: Springlake Colliery	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/22	2041/02/22
161	Modikwa Platinum Mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Platinum	2016/02/23	2036/02/23
162	Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga (Pty) Ltd: Arnot Coal Mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/23	2041/02/22
163	Samancor Eastern Chrome Mine Pty (Ltd) (Spitskop section)	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Chrome	2016/02/23	2026/02/23
164	De Beers Consolidated Mines (Pty) Ltd: Venetia Mines	Limpopo	2015/16	Diamond	2016/02/23	2036/02/23
165	H.J. Kieck- Nieuwejaarsspruit Sand Mine	Free State	2015/16	Sand	2016/02/26	2026/02/26
166	Leeuw Mining and Exploration (Pty) Ltd: Aviemore Colliery Extension	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2041/02/26
167	Palabora Copper Mine (Pty) Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Copper	2016/02/26	2036/02/26
168	Chromex Mining (Pty) Ltd: Mecklenburg Chrome Mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Chrome	2016/02/26	2027/02/26
169	Johannes Hedrik Kieck	Free State	2015/16	Sand	2016/02/26	2019/02/26
170	Richards Bay Minerals: Zulti South Mining Lease Area Project	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2036/02/26
171	Richards Bay Minerals: Zulti North, Tisand and Smelter Site	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2036/02/26
172	Richards Bay Minerals: Zulti Services corridor project	Kwa-Zulu Natal	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2036/02/26
173	Makole Resources (Pty) Ltd: Wachtbentjiesskop Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2046/02/26
174	Idwala Crypts (Pty) Ltd: Vierfontein Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2026/02/26
175	Londani Coal: Nndanganeni Colliery Hartogshof Extension	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2024/02/26
176	Yoctolux Investment (PTY)Ltd: Coal Mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2021/02/26
177	South32 LTD: Khutala Colliery: KSA	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/02/26	2026/02/26
178	Rivanet Mining & Exploration (Pty) Ltd	Free State	2015/16	Gold	2016/03/13	2021/03/13
179	Sisheni Iron Ore Company: Kolomela Mine	Gauteng	2015/16	Iron Ore	2016/03/13	2036/03/13
180	Tivani Mine (Pty) Ltd	Limpopo	2015/16	Platinum	2016/03/17	2036/03/17
181	Hautian SA Mining and Investments (Pty) Ltd	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2016/03/17	2027/03/17
182	Sishen Iron Ore Company (Pty) Ltd: Sishen Mine Operation HEF Plant	Northern Cape	2015/16	Iron Ore	2016/03/17	2036/03/17
183	Vaalbult Mining Company (Pty) Ltd: Vaalbult Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2025/03/17
184	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2032/03/17
185	Exxaro Coal (Pty) Ltd: Arnot Coal Mooifontein	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2032/03/17
186	Crown Gold Recoveries (Pty) Ltd: Knights Operations	Gauteng	2015/16	Gold	2016/03/17	2024/03/17
187	Nungu Trading 341 (Pty) Ltd; Elandspruit Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2036/03/17
188	BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa (Pty) Limited: Middelburg Mine Colliery (South Section)	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2031/03/17
189	Glencore Operations SA (Pty) Ltd: Tweefontein Road Realignment Project Phase 2	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2028/03/17
190	Iyanga Mining (pty) Ltd: Welgelegen Colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2036/03/17
191	Muhanga Mines (Pty) Ltd: OP- Goedenhoop Mine	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/17	2022/03/17
192	Aquarius Platinum SA (Pty) Ltd: Marikana Mine West- West Open Pit Tailings Storage Facility (Phase 1)	North West	2015/16	Platinum	2016/03/17	2028/03/17
193	Afrimat Aggregates (Trading) (Pty) Ltd	Limpopo	2015/16	Cement	2016/03/17	2036/03/17
194	DMI Minerals SA (Pty) Ltd- Krone Endora Diamond Mining Project	Limpopo	2015/16	Diamond	2016/03/17	2036/03/17
195	Anglo Operations pty ltd: Bank colliery	Mpumalanga	2015/16	Coal	2016/03/29	2027/03/29
196	Ms N.S Stuurman	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/10/15	2020/10/15
197	Mrs. R.G Williams	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/07/17	2020/07/17
198	Thandiwe Mining and Farming	Free State	2015/16	Sand	2015/07/30	2018/03/30
199	Mrs S.V.L Williams	Northern Cape	2015/16	Diamond	2015/10/15	2035/10/15

Reply:

The State Security Agency (SSA) does not fund any political parties.

Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

(a) Since January 2012, no official of the Department of Public Works (DPW) has been convicted of corruption. However, with the assistance of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) criminal cases were opened with the South African Police Services (SAPS) and the investigations are still on-going.

The following cases of corruption/fraud have been registered with the South African Police Service (SAPS), during the periods as indicated:

F/Y in which cases were reported	Cases registered with SAPS	Cases being investigated by SAPS	Cases being considered by Prosecuting Authority	Cases being declined to prosecute by Prosecuting Authority	Cases before court
2011 - 12	1				1
2012 - 13	15	12	2	1
2013 - 14	2	1	1
2014 - 15	9	6	1	1	1
2015 - 16	1	1
TOTAL	28	20	4	2	2

From these statistics seven individuals are former employees of the DPW. Three resigned and four were dismissed after being found guilty of misconduct in internal disciplinary hearings.

In one of the cases registered with the SAPS the person is still under the employment of the DPW.

(b) The cases were investigated by the Special Investigating Unit.

(c) Falls away.

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Reply:

(a) South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) was issued a water use licence by the Department for the N2 Mthuzini to Empangeni Junction upgrade on 20 October 2015 for Section 21(c) for impeding and diverting a flow of water in a watercourse and for Section 21(i) for altering the bed, bank and the characteristics of a watercourse.

(b)(i) SANRAL was granted a verbal agreement that they were going to get the water for construction activities directly from uMhlathuze Water, however, due to the drought in KwaZulu-Natal the agreement for clean water supply fell away.

(b)(ii) Murray and Roberts (Pty) Ltd was given the contract for the upgrade of the N2 have submitted a water use authorisation application for taking 40m3/day of water in terms of Section 21(a) of the National Water Act, Act no. 36 of 1998, from the Mhlathuze River for the duration of the construction project. The application was submitted on 15 April 2016.

 

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Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

The National Department of Public Works (NDPW) has established that the property where the Op Die Berg Police Station in Die Koue Bokkeveld is currently accommodated is under the custodianship of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC). The maintenance of this police station is therefore, currently, not being done by the NDPW. However, it is the responsibility of the NDPW to provide accommodation to the SAPS in terms of its police stations. To this extent, this anomaly is being rectified in tandem with the PGWC and a request for the compilation of a formal lease agreement has been submitted.

The formal lease agreement with the PGWC shall specify responsibilities for maintenance and will provide answers to the following:

(a) when (i) the upgrades and/or (ii) repairs to the specified station shall take place; and

(b) the relevant details of the (i) upgrades and/or (ii) repairs that will take place.

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Reply:

There are no MDDA staff members who receive more than one salary. The MDDA has 4 x staff members who occupy permanent positions and have been appointed in acting positions according to the Human Resources Acting in a Higher Position policy. These positions are in the process of being filled. These employees receive an acting allowance for temporarily acting in higher positions.

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

Reply:

(1) The Lomati dam is currently empty. The town of Barberton is now served from the natural surface water flow of the Qeensriver through the Suidkaap Water Treatment Plant. The Suidkaap WTP has been non-operational for almost 10 years and in mitigation of the water situation within the town my Department through Municipal Water Infrastructure Grant (MWIG) allocated R34 million for the resuscitation of the plant, and phase 1 which included the refurbishment of the 4.8Ml Water Treatment Work is complete and was commissioned in August 2015. Phase 2 is concentrating an additional clear water storage and replacement of 5km asbestos rising main pipeline and is due for completion in June 2016.

(2) The Umjindi Municipality has requested DWS for assistance with drought relief intervention. To date my Department has provided Barberton with a 80 kilolitre water storage tank to improve the water storage capacity of the Municipality. In addition to the tank the DWS is funding further civil engineering works at the Suidkaap Water Treatment Plant as alluded to above. These include two concrete water storage reservoirs. A budget of R66 million has been allocated to Umjindi through MWIG and DWS is also facilitating reprioritisation of funding towards refurbishment of eight boreholes within Barberton to improve the water security for the community.

(3) My Department is rolling out implementation of water restriction to regulate the level of water utilisation within the Catchment of the Lomati River. This is aimed at improving the flow levels in the river and ultimately improvement of the dam level.

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Reply:

(1)(a)(i) With reference to my Department’s advertisement to train 15 000 youths as plumbers, the following are in place. My Department has appointed Rand Water and Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority (EWSETA) as implementing agents responsible for project/programme management and training, respectively. The training takes place in three phases, namely:

• Phase 1 commenced last year 2015 and 3000 learners were recruited.
• Phase 2 to start in July 2016 and 7000 prospective learners are being recruited country wide.
• Phase 3 to start in 2017 and remaining 5000 learners to be recruited as part of Phase 3.

Since the objective of the programme is to fix water leaks in municipalities, the learners are recruited from priority municipalities across the country that experience high water loses. The learners will be placed in these municipalities as part of experiential training.

(1)(a)(ii) Qualifications that successful trainees will receive upon completion of the programme are as follows:

• Water Agents;
• Artisans; and
• Plumbers.

(1)(b) Eligibility for the specified training programme. Since the programme requires technical expertise in water environment, the following entry requirements are defined:

• Grade 10 – 12 for Water Agents; and
• Grade 12 / N3 with Maths and Science for Artisans and Plumbers.

(1)(c) Training of the programme takes place at TVETS and private technical colleges across the country. The practical part of the training programme takes place at the municipalities and technical facilities provided by TVETS and private technical colleges.

(1)(d) All learners are recruited for a 36 month period, which includes the theory and workplace/experiential part of the programme.

(1)(e) The programme was launched on 28 August 2015 by the Honourable President, Mr Jacob Zuma.

1. Phase 1 started in September 2015;
2. Phase 2 to start in July 2016; and
3. Phase 3 planned to comments April 2017.

(2)(a) Cost per candidate within the respective disciplines, which includes stipend paid for the duration of 36 months.

     (i) Artisans – R175 489;

     (ii) Plumbers – R177 345; and

     (iii) Water Agents – R69 494.

(2)(b) The funds for the programme will be from the Water Trading Entity.

(2)(c)(i) The learners will be placed in priority municipalities across the county, which have high water loses.

(2)(c)(ii) The learners will be at these municipalities for the contract period of the programme.

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Reply:

The MDDA has never conducted any Social Impact Evaluation study since 2004. A Social Impact Study was proposed during 2014, but, due to the Board not quorating, commissioning of the study was delayed pending adjudication and appointment of a service provider to conduct the study.

(a) The study has just been commissioned and the service provider is expected to start working as soon as the contracting processes have been completed.

(b) The assessment will be done through perusing all MDDA previous records, including visiting and investigating all projects that have been MDDA beneficiaries since 2004, and through engaging all relevant stakeholders including government.

(c) With regard to how many people were involved, this question will be answered as soon as the Impact Study has been completed.

(d) With regard to the outcomes in each such case, this question will be answered as soon as the Impact Study has been completed.

(e) With regard to how successes were measured in each such case, this question will be answered as soon as the Impact Study has been completed.

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

Reply:

(a) The Department procured goods and services to the value of R 2,2 billion from the small-, medium- and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) in 2015-16 financial year and up to April 2016 as follows:

No.	(b)(i) % SMME’s: 2015/16 Financial Year	(b)(ii) % SMME’s: From 1 April 2016
1.	50,03%	1%

(b) The Entities procured goods and services from the small-, medium- and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs) in 2015-16 financial year and up to April 2016 as follows:

No.	Entity	(b)(i) % SMME’s: 2015/16 Financial Year	(b)(ii) % SMME’s: 1 April 2016
1.	Amatola Water Board	99.7%	92.1 %
2.	Bloem Water Board	37%	35%
3.	Lepelle Water Board	72.10%	Not yet available
4.	Magalies Water Board	22.27%	22.27%
5.	Mhlathuze Water Board	66.91%	72.86%
6.	Overberg Water Board	13.7%	Not yet available
7.	Rand Water Board	38%	3.05%
8.	Sedibeng Water Board	97%	35%
9.	Umgeni Water Board	17.79%	0.03%
10.	Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority	1%	0.20%
11.	Water Research Commission	21%	29%
12.	Inkomati CMA	30%	23%
13.	Breede-Gouritz CMA	14.39%	22.36%

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Reply:

The Free State Province does not photo copy textbooks for schools. Schools choose to make photo copies on their own, using equipment at schools, due to an increased number of learners or while awaiting delivery of textbooks. The associated costs are minimal to the school.

Reply:

(a) The names of projects monitored through site visits include the following:

1. Kanyamazane CR

2. Nkomazi Minute

3. Rainbow News

4. Radio BBR

5. Umgungundlovu FM

6. Township Times

7. Upstart

8. Rainbow News

9. Eden FM

10. Greater Giyane CR

11. Kumkani CR

12. Bay FM

13. Cape Town TV

14. Incubo yabantu Abancinci

15. Kouga CR

16. Radio Zibonele

17. Rhodes Music voice of Tembisa

18. Youth Media Movement

19. Hope FM

20. Greater Alex Today

21. KZN Capital

22. Vibe CR

23. Africa Ignite

24. Tubatse CR

25. Makhado CR

26. Mokopane CR

27. Highway Radio

28. WWMP

29. Rise & Shine Disability Newspaper

30. Gulova

31. Khanya College

32. iLitha Publication

33. My future High School Magazine

34. Bush Radio

35. Hope Community Radio

36. Seipone sa Sechaba

37. Nhluvuko News

38. Omolemo Trust Revival FM

39. Radio Teemaneng

40. Phethoho News

41. Phalaborwa FM

42. LA FM

43. Haraambe Youth Network

44. Malamulele FM

45. Mohodi Community Radio

46. Aganang FM

47. Moletjie Community Radio

48. Moutse Community Radio

49. Zebedelal FM

50. Village FM

51. Mmabatho community Radio

52. Radio NFM

53. Radio Namakwaland

54. Kasie Konnexion

55. Koepel Stereo

56. NCRF Mpumalanga

57. Free State News

58. Radio Unique

59. Thetha FM

60. Witbank FM

61. Kasie FM

62. Bushbuckridge News

63. Children Resource Centre

64. Inhloso YesiZwe News

65. Kuruman Chronicle

66. LA FM

67. Ledig Sun

68. Mash FM

69. Metro News

70. Nongoma CR

71. Phetoho News

72. TCOE

73. Eldos FM

74. Satyagraha

75. Inanda FM

76. Ezakwa Zulu

(b) The Project Officers are responsible for monitoring project sites.

(c) The budget allocation for monitoring and evaluation activities was R310,000.00.

(d) The amount spent on monitoring of projects was R320,471.00

MR NN MUNZHELELE

DIRECTOR GENERAL [ACTING]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

MS AF MUTHAMBI (MP)

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS

DATE:

Reply:

1. (a) R1.54 million is allocated for the implementation of SA Connect Phase 1.

(b) The allocated amount will be spent to procure broadband connectivity services for the Phase 1 sites. Detailed Breakdown:

Budget Allocation (Million)
2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	Total
336 600	422 300	711 900	1 450 800

2. (a) The Department is engaging with SITA to explore options of the appointment of the service provider that will be in line with the existing procurement legislations and regulations.

(b) The lead agency should be an organisation with the following capabilities:

   (i) To coordinate between public & private sector players,

   (ii) To raise funding to expand fibre infrastructure,

   (iii) To rollout simultaneously in all the phase 1 districts as per the Broadband Implementation Plan,

   (iv) To leverage on existing infrastructure to minimise duplication.

(c) The Department is engaging stakeholders to finalise the appointment process and no requests for proposals have been published yet.

    (i) - (iii) See (c) above

3) (a) In the 2015/2016 financial year R200 million was allocated for this project of which R100 million was transferred to Sentech for dual illumination and R50, 240 million to SAPO for the National Address System.

(b) No funds were spent since 1 April 2016. Because the department was engaging with the relevant stakeholders to finalise the appointment process.

4) In the 2015/2016 financial year R200 million was allocated for the project. An amount of R49, 760 million was rolled over.

Reply:

I have been advised by the Department as follows:-

(1)(a) The amount allocated to the Cybersecurity Hub for the 2016/2017 financial year is R 16, 418, 000.00

(b) Specific deliverables include

• Formalise engagements with stakeholder, which supports the sharing and technical integration of cybersecurity incident information
• Operationalisation of the Proactive and Reactive services
• Increased functionality of Hub’s tools
• Assist in the enablement and establishment of sector CERTs
• Dissemination of incident and thereat information to stakeholders
• Undertaking of a cybersecurity awareness programs which includes upgrade of the Hub’s website functionality

(2)(a)(i) In the 2017/2018 financial year R 15, 325, 000.00 has been allocated

(ii) In the 2018/2019 financial year R 12, 297, 000.00has been allocated

It should be noted that the allocated budget for these two financial years are subject to change as the MTSF is yet to be finalised.

(b) The monies will be used as follows:

• Obtaining international certification for the Hub
• Establishment of both private and public sector industry specific CERTs
• Integration of incident information
• Development and deployment of cybersecurity audit and readiness tools
• Ongoing awareness programs

(3)(a) The Department is the sole funder of the Hub

(b) N/A

(c) N/A

(4)(a) In the 2014/2015 financial year R 18 533 013 was allocated

In the 2015/2016 financial year R 15 156 157 was allocated

(b) In the 2014/2015 financial year the monies were used for:

• Establishment of the Hub
• Development of Operational Processes
• Development of Policies and Procedures

In the 2015/2016 financial year the monies were used for:

• Research
• Technical and operational support
• System integration
• Facilities, facilities maintenance
• Infrastructure costs
• Stakeholder engagement

Reply:

The details of the reprioritisation of funds in the 2016 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, subsequent to the aggregates tabled in the 2015 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement are set out below.

(a)(i) Amounts reprioritised from national departments:

see the link:  http://www.pmg.org.za/files/RNW990Table.docx

1. As part of the reprioritisation exercise, the Department of Energy receives additional funding taken from the local government level: Integrated National Electrification Programme. This results in a net positive reprioritisation of R87.2 million in 2016/17.

(a)(ii) Amounts reprioritised from provinces:

The provincial department-specific impact of the provincial equitable share reprioritisation is determined through separate provincial-own budgetary processes and legislative approval. Thus the details for each province were not known at the time of tabling the 2016 national budget; however the aggregate provincial reprioritisation was. The provincial equitable share reprioritisation per province is shown in the table below.

Provincial equitable share: heres the list: http://www.pmg.org.za/files/RNW990Equitable.docx

The amount reduced from grant allocations to each recipient province was determined by the department that acts as the national transferring officer. The effect of grant reductions on provincial aggregates is shown in the table below and is informed by the respective allocation criteria for each individual grant. Details of allocation criteria are provided in the respective conditional grant frameworks for each grant as contained in 2016 Division of Revenue Bill.

Provincial conditional grants:

 heres the link: http://www.pmg.org.za/files/RNW990Accountable.docx

(a)(iii) Amounts reprioritised from municipalities:

Local government equitable share:

The impact on municipalities of the R1.8 billion in reprioritisation of the local government equitable share over the MTEF is not shown separately per municipality, as many factors influenced these allocations. These are set out in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Division of Revenue (Annexure W1 to the Division of Revenue Bill and the Budget Review). The allocations amount to 26.4 per cent of the local government level reprioritisation and 5.5 per cent of the total reprioritisation over the MTEF.

The changes affecting municipal allocations include data updates to variables in the local government equitable share formula; to account for changes in projected inflation, electricity and water bulk costs and household growth rates. Significant changes also resulted from the decision by the Municipal Demarcation Board to re-determine multiple municipal boundaries, including the merging of several municipalities. All new demarcations are reflected in the 2016 Division of Revenue Bill and therefore allocations for individual municipalities in the 2015 and 2016 Division of Revenue Bills are not directly comparable where demarcations have been changed. The allocations for Special Support for Councilor Remuneration and Ward Committees also changed as a result of the merging of some municipalities.

The amount reduced from grant allocations to each recipient municipality was determined by the department that acts as the transferring officer. The aggregate grant reductions for individual grants are shown in the table below and are informed by the respective allocation criteria for each individual grant. Details of allocation criteria are provided in the respective conditional grant frameworks for each grant as contained in 2016 Division of Revenue Bill.

Local government conditional grants:

here's the link: http://www.pmg.org.za/files/RNW990conditiongrant.docx

(b)(i) &

(b)(ii) The percentage that each amount represents of the funds reprioritised in the sphere of government that it resides in is show in the tables above under (a)(i), (a)(ii) and (a)(iii). These tables above also show the percentage that funds represent of the total amount of reprioritisation over the MTEF.

Reprioritisation at each sphere of government as a percentage of the total:

see the link: http://www.pmg.org.za/files/RNW990reproriasition.docx

Reply:

(1) Yes, a case docket was opened by the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). The matter is still under investigation and is being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT), a subcomponent of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI).

(2)(a) Witnesses who were involved in the day-to-day running of Nedlac were interviewed.

(2)(b) The case is under investigation.

(2)(c) Allegations of fraud are being investigated.

(2)(d) The matter will be finalised as soon as all the prosecutor’s instructions have been dealt with.

(3)(a) No arrests have been made yet.

(3)(b) No person has been prosecuted yet.

(3)(b)(i) The case is still under investigation.

(3)(b)(ii) When the investigation and the case is finalised in court.

(4)(a) A progress report/feedback has been given to Nedlac.

(4)(b)(i) On 2016-03-08.

(4)(b)(ii) Feedback given was that the matter was still under investigation and further particulars were requested from Nedlac.

Reply:

Yes. The provincial equitable share formula is reviewed and updated annually with new data, where available. Periodic reviews of the formula are also undertaken.

The provincial share of nationally raised revenue is disbursed to provinces using the Provincial Equitable Share (PES) formula. The formula comprises of six components, of which health is one of them, weighted at 27 per cent.

The structure of the health component in the provincial equitable share was amended through a review undertaken in 2010/11. The revised health component, introduced from 2011/12, uses a risk-adjusted capitation index and output data from public hospitals to estimate each province’s share of the health component. These two subcomponents work together to balance the needs (risk-adjusted capitation) and demands (output component). Caseload data in the health component, which measures demand on the ground, changes from year to year and is updated every year with data from the national Department of Health’s Information System. However, the epidemiological landscape that drives the risk profile of a population in a province is unlikely to change from year to year and this subcomponent of the health component is updated on a 4 to 5 years interval cycle.

A review of the provincial equitable share formula is currently underway that will, amongst others, assess all data sources available for each of the components of the formula, including the health component. The outcomes of this review will be implemented in future medium term expenditure frameworks (MTEFs).

(i) Not applicable.

(ii) With respect to the health component, yearly data updates were applied for (a) 2013/14, (b) 2014/15 and (c) 2015/16 as follows:

• 2013/14

          The health component for 2013/14 was updated with the 2011 General Household Survey, 2012 mid-year population estimates, data from the Council for Medical Schemes’ Risk Equalisation Fund, and District Health Information Services data for 2010/11 and 2011/12. The details of such updates are contained in pages 77 to 79 of the 2013 Division of Revenue Bill.

• 2014/15

        The health component for 2014/15 was updated with the 2012 General Household Survey, 2013 mid-year population estimates, data from the    Council for Medical Schemes’ Risk Equalisation Fund, and District Health Information Services data for 2011/12 and 2012/13. The details of such updates are contained in pages 77 to 78 of the 2014 Division of Revenue Bill.

• 2015/16

         The health component for 2015/16 was updated with the 2013 General Household Survey, 2014 mid-year population estimates, data from the Council for Medical Schemes’ Risk Equalisation Fund, and District Health Information Services data for 2012/13 and 2013/14. The details of such updates are contained in pages 79 to 80 of the 2015 Division of Revenue Bill.

Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

(a) User Departments’ accommodation requirements differ in size and type and are informed by User Asset Management Plans (U-AMPs) for new requirements and/or ad hoc requests. The decision on the allocation of State-owned property to meet User requirements is also informed, among others, by: an assessment of the type of service being rendered by the client department; the fitness for purpose of the building; the functionality of the building; and the geographic location of the building.

The Department of Public Works (DPW) is further guided by the Space Planning Norms and Standards for Office Accommodation Use by Organs of State (Government Gazette No. 27985, 2 September 2005) to determine the appropriate space requirements for allocation.

(b) In the main, immovable assets under the custodianship of the DPW are primarily intended for the use of national User-Departments. Where assets are surplus to its needs, the DPW engages with other organs and custodians in the national, provincial and local spheres following the application of the above-mentioned criteria. Where there is no take-up within the Government sector, the Department may elect to lease out surplus properties to the private sector.

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Reply:

(a) (i) 5449 individuals

(ii) 837 Corporate/businesses

(b) Smallest amount = R204.75

Largest amount = R10 551 548.16

(c) The Legal cause is Non Payment of Toll.

(d) (i) & (ii) From a Summons issue perspective Daly Attorneys were used. They form part of the Contractor’s business model with their sub-contractors.

Werksmans Inc. is on a retainer as Sanral’s attorneys of record related to e-Toll matters. A due SCM process was followed in their initial appointment.

(e) (i) Senior advocates may be appointed depending on the specifics of the defences offered for specified claims. However, no matter has reached a stage where the particular defences are known.

(ii) (iii) The appointment of senior advocates depends on the legal matters to be argued and the availability of a particular senior advocate.

(f) (i) There are fixed costs applicable to the drafting of summonses, costs of the court and sheriff costs. (ii) There is no specific budget for legal costs. SANRAL has a general budget for legal costs. Furthermore, depending on the particular process, legal costs are determined by the courts and if a defendant found guilty, the costs are carried by the defendant.

Reply:

The Minister has not met with any member, nor close associate of the Guptas. He has also not attended a meeting with a specified person at the Gupta’s Saxonworld Estate in Johannesburg.

Reply:

(1) The Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality constructed 1219 new houses, serviced 139 stands with water and sanitation and rectified 1561 houses during the 2015/16 financial year.

As far as rectification is concerned, it is now policy that my Department will no longer rectify any houses using its funds. A directive in this regard as been issued to all Provincial Human Settlements Departments that no funding from the Human Settlements Development Grant may be utilised for rectification. Any house that has defaults is the responsibility of the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC), which is responsible to identify the contractor and ensure that they rectify the shoddy work at their own cost.

(a) 198 houses/units were built during the second quarter of 2015/16 financial year in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape.

(b) 215 houses/units were built during the third quarter of 2015/16 financial year in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape.

(2) An additional R500m was allocated to the Eastern Cape Provinces by the National Department and was disbursed as follows:

    (a) R122m to Housing Development Agency which was appointed as the implementing agent for all new developments in the municipality;

    (b) R46,5m for projects to be completed in the municipality by the Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements – ECDOHS;

    (c) R50,3m to the Municipality to complete current running projects (R50, 3m);

    (d) R95m to the Revolving Fund of municipality as a reimbursement for bridge financing to fund housing construction;

    (e) R186,2 to fund project commitments in the Eastern Cape other than Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality.

(3) The funds expended on rectification during the year under review were funded from the original Human Settlement Development Grant allocation to the Eastern Cape for 2015-16 financial year.

(4) An amount of R186, 2 m was spent on subsidised housing construction in the Eastern Cape other than in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality, from additional R500m allocation.

Reply:

The Honourable Member should note that the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) provides in section 32(2) that the Municipal Council must recover all irregular expenditure incurred unless the municipal council has, after an investigation by a council committee, certified the expenditure as irrecoverable and has decided to write it off. The municipal council is the only appropriate authority that should take action in relation to the irregular, unauthorised, fruitless and wasteful expenditure that has been incurred. The overall accountability process for municipal budget and expenditure must take place in a municipality, Provincial and national oversight is ‘distant’ and intervention by the two spheres only warranted as a last resort where local government has collapsed. Therefore, detailed information in this regard is therefore best obtained from the municipality concerned.

The following response is provided based on the disclosures in municipal audited annual financial statements, monitoring reports submitted by the municipality and engagements during mid-year meetings with municipal officials. The Honourable Member should also note that National Treasury has recently introduced consequence management measures that were elaborated on in MFMA Circular 76 issued in October 2015. This provided practical information on how municipalities should address such matters. It must therefore be understood within the context of the phased-in approach to implementation; hence, please noted that further actions may have been taken since these engagements with municipalities which are not reflected in this response as they are subject to ongoing monitoring and reporting.

(a) Irregular expenditure relates to categories of expenditure incurred in contravention of or not in accordance with the MFMA, Municipal Systems Act, Public Office-Bearers Act, and Supply Chain Management policy. These are listed below for metropolitan municipalities:

Buffalo City incurred R1.8 billion irregular expenditure of which none was condoned. No information was reported on amounts to be recovered, although MPAC was tasked with the responsibility to investigate such matters. During mid-year engagements the municipality advised that 8 employees were dismissed, however, no information was provided on write-offs or recovery.

City of Cape Town incurred R1 million irregular expenditure of which R85 000 was condoned. Disciplinary procedures were in place. A forensic unit was established to investigate allegations; however, no information was available on write-offs or recovery.

Ekurhuleni incurred R794 million of irregular expenditure of which R32 million was condoned; however, the majority of the cases were still under investigation by MPAC and other organs of state. In instances where MPAC had concluded investigations, these were reported to council for condonement. Section 32 processes will be used to follow up on recoveries.

eThekwini incurred R500 000 of irregular expenditure of which R400 000 was condoned. The municipality advised that it is addressing this matter in terms of the legislated processes.

City of Johannesburg incurred R1.5 billion of irregular expenditure of which R4 million was condoned. 83 cases are being investigated and 10 have been completed. The municipality has implemented measures to recover money. For example, when an employee resigns before the disciplinary case has been completed, the municipality withholds the employees pension payout. No information was available on write-offs and recoveries.

Mangaung incurred R289 million of irregular expenditure of which none was condoned. A special adjustments budget in terms of Section 32 was passed. No information was available on write-offs and recoveries.

Nelson Mandela Bay incurred R2.1 billion of irregular expenditure of which R12 million was condoned. Investigations are being conducted by Internal Audit and reports are tabled at MPAC from time to time, for recommendations and follow-up actions, including those instances where amounts are write-off and recoveries instituted. No further details were available.

City of Tshwane incurred R1.6 billion of irregular expenditure of which R28 million was condoned. A number of cases are currently under investigation. No information was available on write-offs and recoverable.

(b) Unauthorised expenditure means any expenditure incurred by a municipality otherwise than in accordance with section 15 or 11(3) of MFMA and includes overspending of total amount appropriated in the municipality’s approved budget or overspending of the total amount appropriated for a vote in the approved budget or expenditure from a vote unrelated to the department or functional area covered by the vote or expenditure of money appropriated for a specific purpose, otherwise than for that specific purpose or spending that is inconsistent with any conditional allocation, amongst others. These are listed below for metropolitan municipalities:

Buffalo City incurred R432 million of unauthorised expenditure of which none was authorised through a special adjustment budget in terms of section 28 of the MFMA read with regulation 23(6) of the Municipal Budget and Reporting Regulations. No information was available on any recoveries. However, a report was submitted to MPAC for investigation and recommendation.

City of Cape Town had reported no unauthorised expenditure.

Ekurhuleni had reported no unauthorised expenditure.

eThekwini had reported no unauthorised expenditure.

City of Johannesburg incurred R2.7 billion of unauthorised expenditure. No information was provided on amounts authorised through an adjustment budget in terms of section 28 of the MFMA read with regulation 23(6) of the Municipal Budget and Reporting Regulations, or on amounts recovered.

Mangaung incurred R2.1 billion of unauthorised expenditure. A special adjustments budget in terms of Section 28 of the MFMA read with regulations 23(6) of the Municipal Budget and Reporting Regulations was passed by council. No information was available on recoveries.

Nelson Mandela Bay incurred R780 million of unauthorised expenditure, of which R623 million was authorised through a special adjustment budget. No information was available on recoveries.

City of Tshwane incurred R2 billion of unauthorised expenditure, of which R1.2 billion was authorised through an adjustment budget. A report was tabled in Council to address accounting-related transactions, such as over-expenditure relating to provision for depreciation, loss on disposal of assets, finance charges and debt impairment.

(c) Fruitless and Wasteful Expenditure relates to expenditure incurred that could have been avoided had reasonable care been exercised. These are listed below for metropolitan municipalities:

Buffalo City incurred R5 million of fruitless and wasteful expenditure. No expenditure was condoned and no information was available on write-offs or recoveries. However, a report was submitted to MPAC for investigation and recommendations.

City of Cape Town incurred R440 00 of fruitless and wasteful expenditure, of which none was condoned; however, R146 000 was recovered. The municipality is in the process of condoning the outstanding amounts.

Ekurhuleni incurred R181 million of fruitless and wasteful expenditure, of which R1.2 million was condoned. These have been referred to MPAC and other organs of state for investigation.

eThekwini had reported no fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

City of Johannesburg incurred R20 million fruitless and wasteful expenditure of which R23 000 was condoned, and R361 000 was still to be recovered. The remainder is subject to the outcome of further investigations.

Mangaung incurred R29 million of fruitless and wasteful expenditure. A special adjustments budget in terms of Section 32 was passed by council. No information was available on condoned amounts, write-offs or recoveries.

Nelson Mandela Bay incurred R551 million of fruitless and wasteful expenditure of which R226 000 was condoned. MPAC are still investigating. No confirmation of outcomes was received with regard to write-offs or recoveries.

City of Tshwane incurred R19 million of fruitless and wasteful expenditure of which R513 000 was condoned. A number of cases are still under investigation. No confirmation of outcomes were received on write-offs or recoveries.

Reply:

(1) Five thousand four hundred and sixty five (5 465) houses in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape require rectification.

(2) (a)(i)(aa) to (cc) From 2011 to 2014 a total of 28 261 housing units were rectified by the Provincial Department and/or Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality;

(dd) In 2014/15, a total number of 2 048 units were rectified by the Provincial Department and/or Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality;

(ii) Since 1st April 2015, a total of 1 561units were rectified; and

(b) As far as rectification is concerned, it is now policy that my Department will no longer rectify any houses using its funds. A directive in this regard was issued in 2015 to all Provincial Human Settlements Departments that no funding from the Human Settlements Development Grant may be utilised for rectification. Where defects and poor workmanship are identified, they remain the responsibility of the Province, Municipality and/or the Developer to take relevant remedial action against the contractor and enforce repairs at the cost of the contractor or developer.

The Honourable member is also referred my speech to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on 12 May 2015 during the Policy Debate on the budget of my Department. I indicated,

“We are no longer rectifying houses using our budget. Any house that has defaults is the responsibility of the NHBRC, which is responsible to identify the contractor and ensure that they rectify the shoddy work at their own cost. The money currently used on rectification can and will be used in building more houses”.

In order to limit the need to rectify houses, Government established the National Home Builders Registration (NHBRC). Its mandate is to ensure that all contractors who undertake the construction of a subsidised house are registered with the NHBRC and the requirement for registration, amongst others, is that they comply with all minimum norms and standards and expertise to construct a house.

In addition, the National Department conducts structured project-level monitoring on a quarterly basis in all nine Provinces for verification of delivery. During these, the quality of construction is also observed and reported. I also recently met with contractors involved in the housing subsidy market to address challenges and to emphasize amongst other the importance of quality workmanship.

Reply:

(1)(a) Yes, on 31 March 2015.

(1)(b) On grounds of medical conditions. The member was informed in writing to submit a full set of the correctly completed exit documents to the South African Police Service.

(2)(a) No. The member’s exit documents are still at the Government Pension Administration Agency (GPAA) for further processing of pension payout.

(2)(b) According to the rules of the pension fund, pension monies will be paid out within 60 days from the date after the day on which GPAA received exit documents from SAPS (11 March 2016). Expected finalization/payment date is before or on 8 June 2016.

(3)(a) No. According to Polmed records, the member still has medical aid cover, and her medical aid benefits were never suspended at any stage.

(b)(i)&(ii) The member’s pension benefits were suspended during the period 1 April 2007 until 30 September 2007.

(aa)&(bb) The member was on leave without pay for the period 1 April 2007 to 30 September 2007 which emanated from the disapproval of temporary incapacity leave by the Health Risk Manager.

Upon receipt of supporting medical report from the member, SAPS reconsidered the representation and converted the leave without pay for the period 1 April 2007 to 30 September 2007 into temporary incapacity leave.

The member was reimbursed for the period of leave without pay on 24 February 2014. The pension contribution to GPAA was deducted from the reimbursement and paid to GPAA for the said period.

(4) SAPS is responsible for processing Ill-Health Retirement and the Government Pension Administration Agency (GPAA) is responsible for pension payout.

(5) No case of negligence is being investigated.

No negligence was found on the side of SAPS but rather on the side of the member due to the following reasons:

- The member submitted documents of poor quality, e.g. the decree of divorce was certified more than once.

- The member’s lawyer refused to submit the decree of divorce that was duly certified.

Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

(1) No (a) fridges, (b) curtains, (c) couches, (d) tables and (e) chairs were replaced at the Parliamentary villages since 01 April 2015.

(2) (a) and (b) (i) and (ii) and (3) fall away.

Reply:

The short answer is that the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) is not an “investigating authority”, and is therefore not mandated to undertake nor conduct investigations to gather evidence to prove criminal conduct in a prosecution.

Legal provisions in the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, Act No 38 of 2001 (the FIC Act), prevent the FIC from disclosing any information on what matters the FIC may be working on or not.

In particular, the FIC Act contains strict limitations to protect the confidentiality of reporters, on the disclosure of information reported to it, information at its disposal and of details of its activities concerning such information (section 29 read with section 53, and sections 40 and 41 read with section 60, of the FIC Act).

The FIC is therefore not able to provide the information requested.

The way the Honourable Member has phrased this Question 1247, reflects certain misunderstandings of the FIC Act and how the FIC is called upon to lawfully administer the FIC Act, which I need to clarify, and do so below, to ensure the Honourable Member is better informed.

The FIC Act requires designated financial and other institutions to establish and verify the identities of their customers, and maintain related records of their customers and their transactions. The FIC Act also requires designated institutions to report certain information, such as large cash transactions (R25 000 and above) and suspicious and unusual transactions to the FIC. Importantly, an institution which reports a suspicious or unusual transaction to the FIC may continue with the reported transaction(s) unless instructed by the FIC not to do so.

The FIC Act currently does not require a financial institution to pay special attention to any category of customers. The FIC Act also does not contain any provisions which require financial institutions to apply a risk-based approach to the manner in which they manage customer relationships. In this respect the FIC Act is not in line with current international standards on measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing (the Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (the FATF)).

These FATF standards require, among others, that financial institutions understand the risks associated with different business relationships and apply enhanced due diligence where they perceive higher risk of money laundering or terrorist financing. Enhanced due diligence implies more diligent identification and verification measures and stricter monitoring of customers’ transaction activities.

Parliament is currently considering amendments to the FIC Act to give effect to the requirements of the international standards. These requirements include the application by financial institutions of a risk-based approach to customer due diligence and applying additional due diligence to PEPs (described in the amendments as Persons in Prominent Positions).

I re-affirm that the FIC does not itself undertake “investigations” with a view to gather evidence to prove criminal conduct in a prosecution.

Instead, the FIC analyses information reported to it and at its disposal, and supplies financial intelligence on financial transactions of reported persons or entities, but not evidence, to competent authorities, such as investigating law enforcement authorities, statutory supervisory bodies and state security agencies, to facilitate the administration and enforcement of the laws of the Republic.

These competent authorities, as lawful recipients of FIC issued financial intelligence, in turn undertake independent criminal investigations, supervisory inspections, or other actions, respectively, within their respective legal mandates.

Accordingly, the sharing of information by the FIC with other competent authorities enables them to better discharge their respective responsibilities in the administration of the criminal justice system, the financial and non-financial sector regulatory systems, and the protection of national security, in the Republic.

The FIC Act contains strict limitations on the disclosure by the FIC of information at its disposal. This also applies to disclosure by the FIC of details of its activities concerning such information. Section 29(4) of the FIC Act provides that:

“No person who knows or suspects that a report has been or is to be made in terms of this section may disclose that knowledge or suspicion or any information regarding the contents or suspected contents of any such report to any other person, including the person in respect of whom the report is or is to be made, otherwise than-

(a) within the scope of that person’s powers and duties in terms of any legislation;

(b) for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act;

(c) for the purpose of legal proceedings, including any proceedings before a judge in chambers; or

(d) in terms of an order of court.”

Contravention of this provision is an offence punishable by imprisonment for 15 years or to a fine not exceeding R100 million under section 53 read with section 68 of the FIC Act.

Moreover, section 40(1) of the FIC Act restricts the FIC to disclosing information under its control:

“(a) to an investigating authority inside the Republic, the South African Revenue Service and the intelligence services, which may be provided with such information-

(i) on the written authority of an authorised officer if the authorised officer reasonably believes such information is required to investigate suspected unlawful activity; or

(ii) at the initiative of the Centre, if the Centre reasonably believes such information is required to investigate suspected unlawful activity;

(b) to an entity outside the Republic performing similar functions to those of the Centre, or an investigating authority outside the Republic which may, at the initiative of the Centre or on written request, obtain information which the Centre reasonably believes is relevant to the identification of the proceeds of unlawful activities or the combating of money laundering or financing of terrorist and related activities or similar offences in the country in which that entity is established;

(c) to an accountable institution or reporting institution which or any other person who may, at the initiative of the Centre or on written request, be provided with information regarding the steps taken by the Centre in connection with transactions reported by such accountable institution, reporting institution or person, unless the Centre reasonably believes that disclosure to such accountable institution, reporting institution or person of the information requested could-

(i) inhibit the achievement of the Centre’s objectives or the performance of its functions, or the achievement of the objectives or the performance of the functions of another organ of state; or

(ii) prejudice the rights of any person;

(d) to a supervisory body, which may at the initiative of the Centre or on written request be provided with information which the Centre reasonably believes is relevant to the exercise by that supervisory body of its powers or performance by it of its functions in relation to an accountable institution

(e) in terms of an order of a court; or

(f) in terms of other national legislation.”

In terms of section 41 of the FIC Act:

“No person may disclose confidential information held by or obtained from the Centre except-

(a) within the scope of that person’s powers and duties in terms of any legislation;

(b) for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act;

(c) with the permission of the Centre;

(d) for the purpose of legal proceedings, including any proceedings before a judge in chambers; or

(e) in terms of an order of court.”

Contravention of these two provisions (sections 40 and 41) is an offence and punishable by imprisonment for 15 years or to a fine not exceeding R100 million under section 60 read with section 68 of the FIC Act.

Confirmation or denial by the FIC in the public domain on whether the FIC has received or disclosed any information relating to a particular person or entity to another competent authority, or taken any other action related to such information would amount to a contravention of the above-mentioned provisions of the FIC Act and is therefore not legally permissible.

Moreover, since the FIC’s mandate requires it to assist and work in collaboration with other competent authorities in any given criminal investigation or supervisory inspection or action, any public disclosure of information relating to a specific person or entity who may be the subject of an investigation, supervisory inspection, or details of an operation being conducted by such competent authorities,. It would therefore be irresponsible for the FIC to comment in public on operational matters in which the FIC may or may not be involved. is likely to have a serious detrimental impact on the investigation, inspection or operation.

In conclusion, as Minister of Finance I therefore cannot confirm or deny whether the FIC has information relating to the specific persons or entities previously mentioned at its disposal, nor whether the FIC has or has not made information available to law enforcement authorities in support of investigations of allegations of money laundering against the specific persons or entities.

Reply:

1. Yes. According to South African Airways, their sponsorships in the financial years (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16 were as following (all these sponsorships were approved in accordance with the company’s delegation of authority requirements and followed an internal approval process which included the approval of a business case):

Sponsorship Property	Right Holder	Value	Period
Springboks	SA Rugby	R22.5m per annum	2013-14
SA Olympic Teams	SASCOC	R6m per annum	2014-15
Springboks	SA Rugby	R22.5m per annum	2014-15
SA Olympic Teams	SASCOC	R6m per annum	2015-16
Springboks	SA Rugby	R22.5 per annun	2015-16
Miss South Africa	Sun International	R594k	2015-16
World Routes	UBM	R1.5m	2015-16
NBA Africa Games	NBA Africa	R1.3m	2015-16
International Jazz Extravaganza	Teacup Projects Proprietary Limited	R1.1m	2015-16

Notes:

• The SA Rugby sponsorship was a four (4) year agreement that ended in on 31 December 2015
• The SASCOC sponsorship is a three (3) year agreement that expires in March 2017
• All other sponsorship listed above with the exception of SA Rugby and SASCOC were agreements reviewed annually
• All SAA sponsorships including the ones listed above, are offered strictly on Value-In-Kind (VIK) basis with no outlay of cash. The sponsored parties are liable for airport taxes.

2. There is no mandatory provisions in the cost containment measures (National Treasury Instruction 01 of 2013/14) prohibiting sponsorships although accounting authorities were required to implement measures to contain operational costs and eliminate all non-essential expenditure. SAA is only required to obtain the Minister’s approval for significant transactions outlined in terms of Section 54(2) of the PFMA.

3. According to SAA, the Bafana Bafana sponsorship is valued at R110m in value in kind over a five (5) year period.

4. The Minister does not intend to make an announcement on this matter as SAA announces and accounts for all its sponsorships.

Nonetheless, prudence is required in exercising financial authority during times of financial constraints.

Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

1. (a) To date, 1 287 properties have been confirmed as illegally occupied.

Below is a summary of instances of unlawful occupation:

Province	Squatters	Mud houses	Private houses/ commercial buildings	Total number of illegally occupied properties
KwaZulu Natal	128	301	110	539
Eastern Cape	20	27	75	122
Gauteng	83	0	66	149
Limpopo	3	0	29	32
Northern Cape	16	0	47	63
Western Cape	8	0	119	127
North West	31	0	104	120
Free State	8	1	17	26
Mpumalanga	31	10	68	109
Total number of illegally occupied properties	313	339	635	1 287

(b) 313 properties are occupied by squatters who have built temporary (squatter camps) residences on the properties. 339 properties are occupied by communities that have built mud structures on the land. 635 properties are occupied by private sector commercial businesses and are being used either as private residences or business premises.

(2) To date, none of the above listed matters listed matters have been referred for criminal investigation. The Department of Public Works is currently following the civil route in order to resolve disputes.

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Reply:

1. Loate and Dube police stations.

(b) A map indicating the boundaries is attached as per Annexure A.

(c)(i)

	(c)(i)(aa) Police Act Employees	(c)(i)(bb) Public Service Act Employees
Dube	41	9
Loate	118	26

(c)(ii)(aa) and (bb) Breakdown per function and salary level is attached as per Annexure B.

(c)(i)(cc) Operational vehicles at Dube police station:

Operational vehicles at Dube police station
Sectors	6
Detective Service	5
Client Service Centre	6
Crime Prevention	2
Total operational vehicles	19

Operational vehicles at Loate police station
Detective Service	16
Client Service Centre	5
Crime Prevention	15
Total operational vehicles	36

Reply:

Department

(a) An audit on possible existence of ghost employees in the Department of Transport was undertaken by the Inhouse internal audit activity in the 2011/12 financial year, with a follow-up audit in the 2012/13 financial year.

(b) The results of both full-scale and follow-up audits revealed that there were no ghost employees in the payroll system (PERSAL) of the Department of Transport.

The issue of ghost employees is indicated as a high risk in the fraud risk register of the Department and is regularly and closely monitored by the relevant risk owners

Airports Company South Africa SOC Limited (ACSA)

1.(b) The Airports Company South Africa has conducted audits to establish whether any “ghost workers” existed on the payroll for the financial years mentioned above, 2011 to 2016.

   (i) Yes, an audit was conducted to determine how many ghost workers with the Company in the 2011-12 financial year.

   (ii) Yes, an audit was conducted to determine how many ghost workers with the Company in the 2012-13 financial year.

   (iii) Yes, an audit was conducted to determine how many ghost workers with the Company in the 2013-14 financial year.

   (iv) Yes, an audit was conducted to determine how many ghost workers with the Company in the 2014-15 financial year.

   (v) Yes, an audit was conducted to determine how many ghost workers with the Company in the 2015-16 financial year.

2. (a) Audits have been conducted by Internal Audit and External Auditors for the period 2011 to 2014.

    (b) Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo (SNG) for the period 2011 to 2014. The Auditor General of SA (AGSA) audited for the period 2015 to 2016.

    (c) There were no findings raised related to the existence of “ghost workers”.

    (d) – (f) Please see response to (c) above.

Air Traffic and Navigation Services SOC Limited (ATNS)

1. As part of the part of the annual Internal Financial Controls audit, the payroll process is subject to audit annually with audit procedures applied to detect ghost employees.

(b) (i) 2011-12

(ii) 2012-13

(iii) 2013-14

(iv) 2014-15

(v) 2015-16

(aa) the audits are done annually.

(bb) the audits are done annually.

2. The audits are undertaken annually between November and February by internal audit and further by external auditors. There have been no ghost employees found through audit procedures over the years.

   (a) The audits are done annually.

   (b) Both ATNS internal audit and external audit.

   (c) No ghost employees were found.

   (d) None of the above.

   (e) None of the above.

   (f) None of the above.

   (g) None of the above.

South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA)

1. Yes (a) N/A

(b) the SACAA’s Internal Audit division conducted ghost employee checks/reviews through payroll audits which are performed annually.

(i) No audit was conducted in 2011-12,

(ii) Audits were conducted in 2012-13,

(iii) and 2013-14, (iv) and in 2014-15.

(v) The audit for 2015-16 has not taken place yet.

(aa) None of the above

(bb) 2015-16 audit is scheduled to take place during the 2016-17 FY.

2. (a) In each case the audits are conducted after the end of the financial year.

(b) The audits are carried out by the Internal Audit division using the Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) to identify any anomalies within the payroll system.

(c) For the audits conducted in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 NO ghost employees were identified.

(d) None of the above.

(e) None of the above.

(f) None of the above.

(g) None of the above.

(i) None of the above.

(ii) No incidences were revealed by the audits in the SACAA.

Cross-Border Road Transport Agency (CBRTA)

(1) (b) The C-BRTA has not undertaken any audits specifically to determine how many ghost workers are on the books on any of the given financial years i.e. 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13, (iii) 2013-14, (iv) 2014-15 and (v) 2015-16. However, the Agency has put internal control measures in place to ensure that only valid employees are paid and therefore mitigating against the risk of paying ghost employees. Among others, these internal control measures include but are not limited to:

• Input on certain payroll transactions by one employee (a Senior Administrative Officer), where approval for processing is then provided by the Payroll Specialist;
• The review of the monthly payroll by another employee at Senior Manager level, against all input documentation; and
• The approval of Payroll for payment after a further review by the Executive Manager.

Furthermore, the periodic internal and annual external audits of the entity are undertaken with payroll being one of the specific audit items on the programme. None of these audits have uncovered any ghost workers in the reporting periods in question. (aa) The Agency has not seen the need to conduct these audits because the internal control processes in place have been found to be adequate and the risk of paying ghost employees is mitigated.

(bb) While there are no specific audits conducted on the ghost employees, the following internal auditors have conducted payroll audits and have found the controls within payroll environment to be effective:

Financial year	Internal auditors	External auditors
2011-12	IA Professionals and Related Services	Auditor General South Africa
2012-13	Nkonki	Auditor General South Africa
2013-14	Nkonki	Auditor General South Africa
2014-15	Price Waterhouse Coopers	Auditor General South Africa
2015-16	Price Waterhouse Coopers	Auditor General South Africa

Road Accident Fund (RAF)

1. (b) To determine whether any ghost workers are on the books of the Road Accident Fund (RAF), the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA), as part of its annual audit of the RAF, performs an audit to identify possible ghost employees, whilst the RAF performs: a 100% data analytics review, and on a sample basis, verification of employees on the SAP system against the physical information on personnel files; internal financial control reviews, on a sample basis, to ensure that employees who resigned, or who were dismissed, are timeously terminated on the SAP system; and, further ad hoc audits.

The number of respective audits totalled (i) 1 audit in the 2011-12, (ii) 2 audits in the 2012-13, (iii) 6 audits in the 2013-14, (iv) 6 audits in the 2014-15 financial years;

(aa) this question is not applicable as audits were undertaken during the aforementioned periods, (bb) the annual and other regular audits referred to in 1(b) will continue in future;

(2) In each case the audits -

(a) were undertaken:	(b) by:
following the RAF’s year-end at 31 March 2011, 31 March 2012, 31 March 2013, and 31 March 2014, as part of the statutory annual audit,	AGSA,
on 24 and 25 November 2011, in respect of an ad hoc 100% physical head count audit,	RAF Internal Audit Department,
during June 2013, September 2013, November 2013, March 2014, April 2014, July 2014, November 2014, and March 2015, as part of the internal financial control reviews,	RAF Internal Audit Department,
during April 2013 and April 2014, as part of the data analytics review,	RAF Internal Audit Department,

(c) no ghost employees were identified, therefore questions (d), (e), (f), and (g)(ii) are not applicable to the RAF.

Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC)

1. There hasn’t been any ghost employees for the period 2011/2012 – 2014/2015

The latest physical verification / audit was done during September 2015. In this verification process/ audit no ghost employees identified.

The 2015/2016 verification is still under progress, the results of which will be available once done.

2. (a) The latest verification was done during September and October 2015 – this verification relates to the 2014/2015 financial year.

(b) The verification for 2014/2015 financial year was done by the Payroll unit of the RTMC

(c) The outcome for the 2014/2015 verification dictates that there were no ghost employees at RTMC.

(d) Not Applicable as there was no ghost employees.

(e) There was no cost incurred for the 2014/2015 verification as the exercise was done internally by Payroll unit of the RTMC. The 2015/2016 verification process has not been completed, but were can indicate that there are no amounts to be incurred as the exercise is done internally by RTMC Payroll.

(f) Not Applicable as there was no ghost employees

(g) Not Applicable as there was no ghost employees

Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA)

1. Yes, audits have been undertaken by the Road Traffic Infringement Agency in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13, (iii) 2013-14, (iv) 2014-15 and 2015-16 Financial years.

(aa) Not Applicable

(bb) Not Applicable

2. (a) 2011/12 - ; 2012/13 – 01 May 2013; 2013/14 – 01 May 2015; 2014/15 – 05 May 2015; 2015/16 – 30 April 2016.

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(c) No ghost employees were found

(d) Internal controls are in place and are reviewed periodically

(e) Payroll audits are conducted as part of Auditor General’s scope for audit. Internal audit does the payroll audit as part of their annual systems audit.

(f) Not Applicable

(g) Not Applicable

South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL)

1. Yes, audits have been undertaken by the Road Traffic Infringement Agency in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13, (iii) 2013-14, (iv) 2014-15 and 2015-16 Financial years.

(aa) Not Applicable

(bb) Not Applicable

2. (a) 2011/12 - ; 2012/13 – 01 May 2013; 2013/14 – 01 May 2015; 2014/15 – 05 May 2015; 2015/16 – 30 April 2016.

(b) Auditor General South Africa

(c) No ghost employees were found

(d) Internal controls are in place and AGSA performs on audit on an annual basis verifying each employees

(e) Payroll audits are conducted as part of Auditor General’s scope for audit.

(f) Not Applicable

(g) Not Applicable

Ports Regulator of South Africa (PRSA)

1. (b) There were no special audits undertaken by the Ports Regulator since both the internal and external auditors perform employee verification for all employees taking into account the fact that the Ports Regulator employs only 17 employees. The verifications are done annually and did take place in (i) 2011/12, (ii) 2012/13, 2013/14, (iv) 2014/15 and (v) 2015/16. (aa) N/A, (bb) N/A.
2. (a) these audits were undertaken each year by (b) internal and external auditors and (c) there were no ghost employees found on the payroll. (d) Strict internal controls prevented this, (e) the audits were done as part of the annual audit (f) there were no guilty parties to be handled.

 

South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA)

SAMSA has not undertaken audits on ghost workers as a separate audit exercises. However, the Auditor-General does verify the existence of employees on the SAMSA payroll during their audits. The AG has not identified any ghost worker on the SAMSA payroll during their previous audits.

Railway Safety Regulator (RSR)

The Human Resources and Payroll Audits are undertaken on a yearly basis by both the Internal Auditors as well as the Auditor-General and no audit findings for ghost employees were identified for the following financial years:

Financial Years	Ghost Workers
2011-2012	No audit findings for non-existing employees during the Payroll auditing
2012-2013	No audit findings for non-existing employees during the Payroll auditing
2013-2014	No audit findings for non-existing employees during the Payroll auditing
2014-2015	No audit findings for non-existing employees during the Payroll auditing
2015-2016	No audit findings for non-existing employees during the Payroll auditing

Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)

1. No audits have been undertaken to determine specifically how many ghost workers are on the books of PRASA in the financial years mentioned. PRASA Internal Audit Department performs Human Capital Management (HCM) audits, where the scope relates to the adequacy and effectiveness of HCM processes including:

• Policies and Procedures
• Staff Retention and Succession Planning, Scarce Skills Plans
• Overtime Management
• Leave Management, Productivity and Absenteeism
• Recruitment  and Selection
• Terminations and Suspensions
• Salary increases and promotions
• Payroll
• Organisational structure and reporting lines
• Employee Wellness Programme

The Auditor General also performs audit on the HCM function as part of their annual year end audit. PRASA also undertakes monthly payroll reconciliations, and to date no discrepancies have been uncovered.

2. See (1) above.

Reply:

I have been advised by the Department as follows:-

1. No.

(a) The Department has engaged with USAASA to ensure alignment of the Broadband initiatives being funded through the USAF and SA Connect Phase 1 hence USAASA’s current and future plans are aligned with the SA Connect Phase 1 District Municipalities.

(b) The Department and USAASA will continue to engage to outline the agency roles on SA Connect implementation taking into consideration developments in the sector

2. (aa) (i)-(ii) The estimated cost for Phase1 of SA Connect is R6.56billion

(bb) (i) – (ii) The estimated cost for Phase2 of SA Connect is R67.4 billion

(b) (i)-(iii) Phase 1 detailed breakdown

Phase 1 Budget Allocation (Million)
2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	Total
R 516.34	R 719. 52	R 720. 37	R6.56 Billion

(i)- (iii) Phase 2 detailed breakdown

Phase 2 Budget Allocation (Million)
2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	Total
R 823, 9	R 1, 557	R 2, 213	67.42 Billion

(c) The funding for Phase 1 will come from Budget allocation MTEF 2016/-2018/19. No allocation for Phase 2

Reply:

I have been advised by the Department as follows:-

1. (a) Since 1 October 2015, the National ICT Forum has held a number of meetings through its various structures, which comprises of the Chairpersons Forum, Chamber meetings and Working Committees.

(b) (i) Meeting Dates:

• • • Chairpersons Forum – 30 November 2015, 11 March 2016 and 06 May 2016
    • Economic Chamber – 3 March 2016
    • Social Chamber – 27 November 2015 and 19 February 2016
    • Governance and Security Chamber – 7 December 2015
    • ICTs and Disability Chamber – 2 December 2015 and 17 March 2016

(ii) Venues:

• Chairpersons Forum – Director General’s Boardroom (Department)
• Economic Chamber – Blue Crane Boardroom (Department)
• Social Chamber – Blue Crane boardroom (Department)
  • Governance and Security Chamber – Blue Crane Boardroom (Department)
• ICTs and Disability Chamber – Burgherspark Hotel (Pretoria)

 

(iii) Agendas:

Chairpersons Forum – Stakeholder Mobilization and Participation, Resource Mobilization, Draft Work Programmes of Chambers, National Workshop

Economic Chamber – ICT Skills, ICT SMMEs support, Electronic Manufacturing, Postal Sector and ICTs

• Social Chamber – e-Health, e-Education, e-Justice and e-Agriculture
• Governance and Security Chamber – e-Commerce, Internet Governance, Policy Mapping and Cyber Security.
• ICTs and Disability Chamber – ICT Assistive Devices, Access to Government websites, Access to Banking Services

(iv) Records of decisions:

• Chambers have developed their Terms of Reference and firmed up their structures
• Chambers have now resolved and are prepared draft Work Programmes which still need to
• be approved by the department
• The Chairpersons Forum agreed to convene a National Workshop to discuss and endorse
• the draft Work Programmes

(2)(a) Reports and (b) Initiatives

Initiatives that are coming out of the draft work programmes of the chambers include the following:

• Conduct a National ICT Skills Audit with relevant stakeholders
• Develop and implement a basic National e-Literacy Programme
• Facilitate creation of Creative Hubs for SMMEs in townships with relevant support
• Support development of ICT applications that will enable SMMEs to expand business opportunities
• Develop and implement a Cybersecurity Awareness programme
• To develop a National set of Principles/framework for Internet Governance in South Africa
• Establish/ or revive an Intergovernmental Forum on Internet Governance
• Create a cybersecurity Body of Knowledge for general access by South Africans
• Explore Youth Job Creation Programme focusing on cybersecurity awareness
• Facilitate engagements with relevant to improve access to banking services, government websites, employment, education and broadcasting for people with disabilities.

A National Workshop will be convened before the end of June 2016 to discuss and endorse the draft programmes of each Chamber. The workshop will also discuss resource mobilization for implementation of the work programme and timelines.

Reply:

(1) (a)(i) & (ii) There are approximately 2.5 million distinct vehicles using the GFIP on a monthly basis. Approximately 1,45 million vehicles are currently registered or making payment. SANRAL received more than 600 000 enquiries on the less60% offer via the web or via inbound calls from the public. Of the 600 000, approximately 130 000 have settled their account or made arrangements to settle. There is however still work in progress related to the balance of the 600 000 users indicated above.

(b)(i) R136m discounted paid and payment agreements for a further R123m discounted entered into.

(ii) (aa) & (bb) – the system is not set up to distinguish between type of users.

(2) SANRAL is an agency of Government and must comply with the requirements of the PFMA. There is a legal obligation on users to pay toll at a toll plaza or tolling point. SANRAL is obliged to collect outstanding debts to Government in terms of the PFMA.

(a) The SANRAL Act allows for both civil and criminal legal processes. Both are available to SANRAL and the prosecuting authorities.

(b) The extent of these processes are determined by legislation

(c) The NPA already successfully prosecuted a person in 2015 for the non-payment of toll as well as fraud. Further cases are investigated. The issuing of civil summonses already commenced.

(d) We trust that the honourable member is not suggesting that due to legal costs, SANRAL should neglect its obligation to collect the debt owed as mandated in the PFMA. As the honourable member would appreciate the costs are dependent on the particular process, legal costs are determined by the courts.

Reply:

1. South African Airways has indicated that on all destinations they have stopped transporting fire-arms for passengers. Additional information is available on SAA’s webiste at http://www.flysaa.com/za/en/flyingSAA/baggage/firearms.html

2. The Minister does not intend to make an announcement on this matter.

Reply:

(a) There have not been attempts to replace the Councillors. Minister met with the previous Chairperson and expressed the intention to change the structure of the Council to derive maximum value for all stakeholders.

(b) There is currently no designated Chairperson of the council.

(c) There has not been any meetings with the Chairperson.

Reply:

The Provincial Commissioner of the Eastern Cape was not aware of the alleged irregularities as contained in the attached statements to this Question in Parliament, which are viewed in a very serious light.

 (a) Two (2) Senior Officers have been appointed to conduct an in-depth investigation into the alleged irregularities at Madeira Police Station with a view to take appropriate action against whoever might be implicated in such irregularities.

 (b) The investigation will commence immediately and is envisaged to be finalized within twenty one (21) days.

 (c) Progress will be reported in due course.

Reply:

1. No. The Minister has not earned any additional income from doing business with government

a) N/A

b) N/A

c) N/A

d) N/A

(2)     whether his (a) spouse, (b) children and (c) close family earned income from businesses, in particular businesses doing work for the Government, through his appointment as Minister; if so, in respect of each case, (i) when, (ii) how much did each earn, (iii) from which businesses and (iv) for what work?          NW1019E

ANSWER

2. No family members of the Minister have earned incoming from doing business with government.

i) N/A

ii) N/A

iii) N/A

iv) N/A

 

Reply

Approved/not approved

Mr MJ Zwane, MP

Minister of Mineral Resources

 

 

Date Submitted:-………………/………………/2016

 

Reply:

The Minister of Public Works

The 1 200 properties are not untraceable as suggested by the Honourable Member. Rather, the land parcels in question cannot be linked to the Geographical Information System (GIS) due to the absence of cadastral information on them. The Department of Public Works (DPW) has therefore approached the Office of the Chief Surveyor-General to provide spatial geo-reference cadastral data of South Africa for these properties in the format of the (Environmental Systems Research Institute) ESRI files that are currently being used in the Department, so that the land parcels can be linked to the GIS. It is important for all property under the custodianship of the DPW to be put on the GIS system so that the Department or the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE) is enabled to manage immovable assets optimally, incorporating the ability to do conditionality assessments and thus provide for asset investment decisions.

Attached to this reply is Annexure A, which lists the 1 200 properties.

Reply:

a) The process of updating our website is underway including Contact us page. We have appointed an Online Media Service personnel to deal with it

b) The process is already underway and the Online Media Personnel is working on it

c) Its Communications Directorate to update content that goes on the Website

d) Online Media Service will be working with all stakeholders to collect information and update the website

Reply:

(a) The original contract commenced on 13 November 2011 and the contract was terminated (DPW) on 13 March 2014 due to the contractor not performing his obligations. The second contract to finalise the outstanding work was awarded on 10 November 2015.

(b) The contractor failed to perform his obligations and the National Department of Public Works had to re-start the tendering process in order to appoint the new contractor for completion of the project.

(c) The anticipated date of completion is 9 July 2016.

(d) The budget allocation for the construction and completion of the specified police station is R 31 581 451-00.

(e) The amount spent to date is R 16 887 830-00.

(f) The projected expenditure for the project is R 31 581 451-00.

Reply:

The mentioned person was eligible for parole on 16 June 2015 and was placed for parole supervision on 18 June 2015.