Whether her department keeps record of the total number and cost to municipalities of indigent households that are registered in databases for free basic services in each municipality; if not, why not; if so, what (a) was the total number of indigent households in each specified municipality and (b) total amount has each municipality spent on free basic services in the (i) 2019-20 and (ii) 2020-21 financial years?
Yes, the Department keeps a record of the total number of indigent households and their cost to each municipality.
a) There is a total number of 3 580 006 indigent households for the 2019/20 financial year. There is no published data for the total number of indigent households for 2020/21 financial year, as the information is currently being consolidated. The breakdown per municipality is ...
Whether her department and/or any entity reporting to her have budgeted for (a) financial donations and/or (b) sponsorships in the (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20, (iii) 2020-21 and (iv) 2021-22 financial years; if not, why not, in each case; if so, what total amount was (aa) budgeted and (bb) spent in each specified financial year?
The Departments of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) and Traditional Affairs (DTA) alongside the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent (MISA) have not budgeted for financial donations and/or sponsorships in the (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2019-20, (iii) 2020-21 and (iv) 2021-22 financial years.
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With reference to a presentation on the 2021-22 audit outcomes for the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, wherein the Auditor-General made the finding that payments were made in the 2018-19 financial year under the Community Works Programme to non-qualifying government employees due to ineffective internal controls for approving and processing payments, what total amount was paid to the non-qualifying government employees;
(2) whether any steps have been taken to recover the irregular payments; if not, why not; if so, what (a) total amount has been recovered and (b) disciplinary action has been taken against government employees who irregularly benefited from the CWP?
1. The total unconfirmed (maximum) amount of Community Works Programme (CWP) stipends paid to possible non-qualifying government employees for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2020 was R6 300 997,00. This unconfirmed amount involves about 534 government employees in 62 national and provincial departments.
2. The Director-General of the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) in January 2022 wrote letters to the Directors-General ...
Whether the Community Work Programme has recorded any cases of sexual harassment against participants over the past five years; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what (a) are the relevant details and (b) action was taken against the perpetrators?
No, there are no recorded cases of sexual harassment against participants over the past five years in the Community Works Programme which have been brought to my attention.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
With reference to a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on 21 September 2022 on the state of a section 139(7) intervention in the Manguang Metropolitan Municipality, in which her department indicated that national and provincial government departments and other organs of state owe the specified municipality about R1,3 billion in arrears, (a) what are the relevant details of each of the national and provincial departments and organs of state that owe payments to the municipality for more than 30 days as at 1 September 2022, (b)(i) what total amount is owed by each of the specified departments and organs of state and (ii) for what period of time based on an age analysis, (c) which of the debts are disputed by the relevant departments and organs of state and (d) what measures has she and/or her department taken to ensure that the maximum payment of the specified arrear debts are made as soon as possible?
a) National Public Works
Provincial Public Works
Schools
National Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Free State Development Corporation
b)(i) The total amounts owed by each of the specified departments and organs of state is as follows:
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Details
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Debt Owed
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Provincial Public Works
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R 995 917 877
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National Public Works
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R 263 568 751
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Schools
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R 609 614 723
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What is the breakdown of municipalities in each province that use the executive (a) committee model and (b) mayor model?
The table below provides a breakdown of the number of municipalities that utilises either the Collective Executive System or the Mayoral Executive System, per province:
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NO.
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PROVINCE
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TYPE OF MUNICIPALITY
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- Collective Executive System
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- Mayoral Executive System
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1.
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Eastern Cape
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24
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15
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2.
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Free State
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12
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11
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3.
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Gauteng
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0
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11
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4.
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KwaZulu-Natal
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54
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0
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5.
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Limpopo
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21
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6
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6.
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Mpumalanga
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0 ... |
Whether, in light of the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) and the IUDF Implementation Plan that identify informal settlement upgrading as a targeted priority, her department will furnish Ms S A Buthelezi with the details on any particularly successful social compacts which have helped facilitate the upgrade of any informal settlements; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) did her department collaborate with other departments to help broker the specified social compacts and (b) what are the greatest (i) challenges and (ii) benefits that the compacts afford?
No, the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) has not facilitated any social compacts under the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) for informal settlements.
With reference to the Makana Local Municipality which is amongst the 64 municipalities that have been identified as dysfunctional in her department’s report to Cabinet and is said to have been deteriorating since the visit of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, with communities sighting the same issues of the lack of water and poor roads, what conclusive evidence and outcomes were drawn from the invocation of section 106 of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, Act 32 of 2000, in the specified municipalities?
It is the responsibility of the MEC for Local Government to invoke section 106 of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, Act 32 of 2000. The Department has been informed by the province that there has not been any invocation of section 106 of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act at Makana Local Municipality.
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With reference to a presentation on the 2021-22 audit outcomes to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, wherein the Auditor-General made the finding that payments were made in advance to implementing agents under the Community Works Programme, 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 advance 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;
(3) whether any of the implementing agents have been blacklisted from doing business with her department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
1. As at 31 March 2022 the balance of uncleared advances made to eight (8) Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) was R26 252 990,01.
2. R20 822 071,84 of the total amount of R26 252 990,01 has been offset against retained project management fees due by the Department to NPOs, leaving a balance of R5 430 918,17 due by three NPOs to the Department. The Department ...
Whether she intends to take any steps to intervene in the Rustenburg Local Municipality (a) so that it constructs roads and (b) provides water to the community of Block 50 towards the side of Choppies at Boitekong; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
a) It is responsibility of municipalities working together with Department Transport to construct roads; and
b) It is responsibility of municipalities working together with Department Water and Sanitation to provide water to communities.
It is recommended that this question be transferred to the relevant Ministries of the above-mentioned departments for written reply.
