Alexandra Lilian Amelia Abrahams

Committee appearances

• Implications of Children’s Amendment Bill : SALGA briefing; Content Advisor on public participation 24 Feb 2021

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked if local municipalities have the capacity and the budget to implement the Bill. What are the challenges faced by municipalities for this? At some point, the Committee will have to engage with municipalities to get a sense of their challenges and concerns in the implementation ...

• Implications of Children’s Amendment Bill in relation to the adoption services: DSD briefing 17 Feb 2021

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) was cognisant of the limited time, and as such what she brought up was not the entirety of her contribution on the matters discussed. She thought that they needed to be realistic on South Africa’s state of social protection, which was far from perfect. There was ...

• Lapsed temporary disability grants, reapplications, overcrowding at SASSA offices: follow-up meeting 3 Feb 2021

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked for an indication of how many doctors are available per province to complete the reassessments by 31 March 2021. She asked that future progress reports provide an indication of clients who are confirmed and receiving their TDG. Is the Delft civic centre being used to ...

• Lapsing of temporary disability grants, re-applications, overcrowding at SASSA offices: Minister & SASSA briefing 20 Jan 2021

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) pointed out that she would be repeating some matters because they were important.

• DSD, SASSA & NDA Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; Committee Report on Quarterly Performance 2 Dec 2020

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) found the BRRR did not fully capture the challenges experienced, for example the impact of COVID19 on Early Childhood Development (ECD). Specifically, some departments had experienced challenges with payments of ECDs and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

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Questions

• Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 24 Feb 2021

  (1)With reference to the three types of homeless persons, namely chronic, transitional and episodic, what (a) is the total number of persons currently registered as beneficiaries of the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) grant and (b) type of SASSA grants do the beneficiaries receive; (2) whether the specified beneficiaries access ...

• Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 6 Jan 2021

  Of the 99 047 food parcels distributed by her department, 147 205 by the SA Social Security Agency and 220 674 by the Solidarity Fund during the national lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, (a) what total number of recipients of the specified food parcels were (i) older persons, ...

• Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 6 Jan 2021

  (1)(a) In which provinces did her department currently constitute active provincial substance abuse fora, (b) on what date was each specified forum established and constituted, (c) what number of times has each forum met since 1 January 2018, (d) what are the contact details of each forum’s secretariat and (e) ...

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Plenary appearances

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