People's Assembly

2022-w3839 - 12 December 2022

Eleanore Rochelle Jacquelene Spies to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

With reference to a presentation on the 2021-22 audit outcomes to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, wherein the AuditorGeneral made the finding that project management fees were paid under the Community Works Programme to implementing agents of the Contract Work Programme from April 2018 to March 2021, without evidence of goods and services having been received due to ineffective internal controls for approving and processing payments, what total amount was paid in irregular project management fees to the implementing agents; (2) whether any steps have been taken to recover the irregular payments; if not, why not; if so, what total amount has been recovered; if so, what total amount has been recovered; (3) whether any of the implementing agents were blacklisted from doing business with her department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 12 Dec 2022

1. The balance of overpaid project management fees to two Non-Profit Oganisations (NPOs) was R1 820 519,18 as at 31 March 2022.

2. The amount has been offset against retained project management fees due to the NPOs, leaving a balance of R287 305,79 due by one (1) NPO to the Department. This NPO is no longer in business and the Department’s attorneys are currently ...

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2022-w2102 - 17 June 2022

Emma Louise Powell to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

(a) What (i) is the name of the person who was designated in terms of section 34 of the Disaster Management Act, Act 57 of 2002, to co-ordinate the response to the flood in KwaZulu-Natal and (ii) are the terms of reference linked to the appointment, (b) on what date was the Provincial Disaster Management Centre (PDMC) established and (c) what are the total amounts spent to date on the PDMC; (2) whether she will furnish Ms E L Powell with the dates and minutes of all meetings since the establishment of the forum; if not, why not; if so, on what date?

Reply from the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 17 Jun 2022

(1) (a) (i) and (ii)A person appointed as the head of the provincial disaster management centre is responsible for the exercise by the centre of its powers and the performance of its duties. Mr Sibongiseni Ngema has been appointed as the Head: KZN Provincial Disaster Management Centre in terms of the Public Service Act.

(b)The Provincial Disaster Management Centre (PDMC) was established in 2007. ...

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2022-w235 - 31 March 2022

Khanya Ceza to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

What intervention has she made to resolve the perennial financial problems at Amahlathi Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape, which has consistently failed to pay its workers because it has financially collapsed?

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

The municipality was previously placed under intervention in terms of sec 139(1)(b) and (5) of the Constitution between March 2019 to November 2019. An administrator was appointed in line with subsection 5(c) of the Constitution from the beginning of March 2019.

Forensic investigations were instituted by the Eastern Cape Provincial CoGTA in accordance with section 106 of the Municipal Systems Act to probe allegations ...

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