People's Assembly

2023-w81 - 03 April 2023

Nomsa Innocencia Tarabella Marchesi to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

What are the details of the (a) make, (b) model, (c) year of manufacture, (d) cost and (e) purchase date of all the official vehicles purchased for (i) her, (ii) the former Minister, (iii) the Deputy Ministers and the (iv) former Deputy Ministers of her department since 1 June 2019?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 3 Apr 2023

Designation	(a) Make	(b) Model	(c) Year of manufacture	(d) Price	(e) Purchase date
(i) Minister Dlamini-Zuma	Volvo	XC60	2020	R806 699.96	24 March 2020
(ii) Former Minister	None	None	None	None	None
(iii) Deputy Minister T Nkadimeng	Toyota	Fortuner H50 / A2X	2023	R 698 138,55	January 2023 – Purchase order issued
(iv) Former Deputy Minister	None	None	None	None	None

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2022-w2117 - 28 October 2022

Dean William Macpherson to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

With reference to the disaster relief funding, donations and resources from the State, businesses and non-governmental organisations that were provided as an immediate response to the flood in KwaZulu-Natal, and in view of the announcement by the President of the Republic, Mr M C Ramaphosa, on 26 April 2022 that the AuditorGeneral is working with the National Treasury to conduct real-time audits on the emergency flood relief funds (details furnished), what is the (a) total amount of money that has been allocated to date from the (i) Government and (ii) Solidarity Fund and (b) breakdown for each?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 28 Oct 2022

(a) (i) The Honurable Member may request the National Treasury for the full allocations for government as a whole. For its part the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) has allocated a total of R516 748 000 from the Municipal Disaster Relief Grant. This does not include allocations in terms of Reprioritisation and Reallocations made by other sector departments.

(ii) The Honourable Member may contact the Solidarity ...

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2022-w3372 - 27 October 2022

Mathibe Rebecca Mohlala to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

What (a) are the reasons that the Waterberg District Municipality in Limpopo is not a water authority (b) municipality, entity and/or department is accountable for water provision in the Waterberg District; and (c) total number of communities are affected by the water shortage in the specified district?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 27 Oct 2022

The oversight role over water services institutions as per the Water Services Act is the responsibility of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), and this question should be referred to that relevant Department for reply.

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2022-w225 - 31 March 2022

Makosini Chabangu to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

On what date is it envisaged the national state of disaster will come to an end; and b) what are the reasons for the unending extensions?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 31 Mar 2022

a) The National State of Disaster is envisaged to end by the 5th April 2022.

b) The national state of disaster was extended each time following the determination by the National Coronavirus Command Council and Cabinet that the need to augment the existing legislation and contingency arrangements through the disaster management regulations was still required.

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