Alexandra Lilian Amelia Abrahams

Committee appearances

• Department of Social Development and entities on Covid19 update 31 Jul 2020

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked if the Department would continue providing a weekly COVID19 status update to the Committee while Parliament was in recess. Was SASSA aware that some officials had requested that the SRD grant applicants reapply for the grant each month? A mayor’s wife in the Free ...

• DSD Budget: Committee Report 15 Jul 2020

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked about adjustments to the budget on the DSD substance abuse programmes. Why had it decreased and decapacitated some of the treatment centres? A previous presentation of the Department had stated that the target of five public treatment centres being capacitated would be decreased to three ...

• DSD, SASSA & NDA Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan; Update on response to Covid-19 matters 8 Jul 2020

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) was concerned about the revised APP and budget. Treasury has not given DSD enough money. If government does not invest in the people, there is no use in investing in material possessions. Women, children and people with disabilities are invisible to Treasury when one considers Treasury ...

• Implementation of food distribution programmes: MECs and HODs briefing; Update on progress made to respond to Covid19 pandemic issues 25 Jun 2020

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) asked whether the use of food vouchers to which the Acting DDG had referred, was in use and if it was, on what date it had been implemented. She proposed that food vouchers should be referred to as “dignity vouchers,” since they would also allow recipients ...

• DSD 2019/20 Quarter 4 performance; Progress made to respond to Covid19 pandemic issues 11 Jun 2020

  Ms A Abrahams (DA) said the summary slides which the Department had presented had not been given to the Committee, which made it difficult for the Members to engage. She asked the Department to forward the concept documents when linking the child support grant to the beneficiaries with the government ...

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Questions

• Questions asked to the Minister of Basic Education 11 Aug 2020

  What are the details of the joint phasing-in plan of her department working jointly with the Department of Social Development for the reopening of early childhood development centres (ECDs) under level 3 of the risk- adjusted approach to Covid-19 within the Republic with regard to the (a) date ECDs will ...

• Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 6 Aug 2020

  With reference to her department’s response to Covid-19 whereby the National Development Agency (NDA) will pay 120 civil society organisations R5 000 per month over a period of 6 months as an administration fee to manage 1 200 NDA volunteers, for what reasons did her department not engage and ...

• Questions asked to the Minister of Social Development 31 Jul 2020

  (1)Whether her department conducted any feasibility study in respect of the employment of 1 809 Social Work graduates on a three-month contract; if not, why not; if so, (a) what was found to be the impact of the employment of the graduates in each province, (b)(i) on what ...

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Plenary appearances

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