(1)Whether the Department of Roads and Public Works in the Northern Cape asked for her department’s intervention before it took a decision to hand over the ownership of provincial road R385 to the Tsantsabane Local Municipality; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the reasons that were put forward by the provincial department for its decision;
(2) whether her department has set aside funds to assist in the maintenance of the provincial roads such R385 as it is already clear that municipalities can neither maintain nor build new roads within their own municipality?