What formal qualifications does each of her department’s (a)(i) Chief Financial Officers and/or (ii) acting Chief Financial Officers and (b)(i) Directors-General and/or (ii) acting Directors-General possess?

Whether she has authorised the payment of R150 million promised by her to eradicate illegal electricity connections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality; if not, why not; if so, by when will the specified funds be paid to the specified metropolitan municipality?

(1) Whether she will make all contracts related to the sale of the country’s strategic fuel stocks in the past three financial years available to Mr P van Dalen, in each case indicating (a) the company that bought fuel stocks, (b) the price, (c) how many litres were bought and (d) all the conditions attached to the specified purchase; if not, why not; if so, by when; (2) whether she will make a copy of the ministerial directive to authorise the sale of strategic fuel stocks during specified period available to Mr P van Dalen; if not, why not; if so, by when; (3) whether she will make all documents for the leasing of storage facilities by companies at the Strategic Fuel Fund facilities available to Mr P van Dalen, in each case indicating the (a) terms of the leasing of crude oil space, (b) price agreed upon and (c) name of each of the specified companies; if not, why not; if so, by when?

(1) With reference to her reply to question 1692 on 2 September 2016, to which schedule, in the Electricity Regulation Act, Act 4 of 2006, as amended, is she referring when stating that private generators who have generator installations above 100 kVA are exempted from obtaining a license to operate; Friday, 16 September 2016 731 INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO 28 - 2016 (2) whether the National Energy Regulator requires private generators to have licences to produce power when they participate in net metering agreements with Eskom where they set the power generated off against their accounts with the specified entity; if not, why do certain municipalities apply a different policy in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?

Whether, with reference to her reply to question 1692 on 2 September 2016, she has received the legal opinion of the Office of the State Law Advisor on her department’s notice of exemption from licensing of Small-Scale Embedded Generation; if not, by when is the specified legal opinion expected; if so, by when will the rules for the specified generation be gazetted?

(1) With reference to her reply to question 1701 on 5 September 2016, on which statutory grounds is she relying to prevent the release of the (a) proposal for the roll-out of new nuclear power plants as signed off by her, (b) Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review by the International Atomic Energy Agency, (c) terms of reference for the National Nuclear Energy Executive Coordinating Committee (NNEECC), (d) communication and stakeholder engagement strategy of the NNEECC, (e) phased decision making approach of the NNEECC for implementing Government’s nuclear programme, (f) designation of Eskom as the owner and operator of nuclear power plants in South Africa, (g) 2004 Bilateral International Agreement with the Russian Federation and (h) May 2013 agreement signed between South Africa and Russia during the BRICS Summit meeting held in Durban; (2) whether she will make each of the specified documents available to Mr G Mackay; if not, why not; if so, by when?

(a) What are the names of the members of the Independent Panel established to investigate the sale of the country’s strategic fuel stocks, (b) what is the specified panel’s mandate and (c) by when is the specified investigation expected to be completed?

Whether she has authorised the payment of R150 million promised by her to eradicate illegal electricity connections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality; if not, why not; if so, by when will the specified funds be paid to the specified metropolitan municipality?

Whether she will furnish Mr. G Mackay with copies of the (a) proposal for the roll-out of new nuclear power plants as signed off by her, (b) Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review by the International Atomic Energy Agency, (c) terms of reference for the National Nuclear Energy Executive Coordinating Committee (NNEECC), (d) communication and stakeholder engagement strategy of the NNEECC, (e) phased decision-making approach of the NNEECC for implementing Government’s nuclear programme, (f) designation of Eskom as the owner and operator of nuclear power plants in South Africa, (g) 2004 Bilateral International Agreement with the Russian Federation and (h) May 2013 agreement signed between South Africa and Russia during the BRICS Summit meeting held in Durban; if not, why not, in each case; if so, in each case, by when?

Whether she will furnish Mr. G Mackay with the (a) copies of the invitation to attend vendor parade workshops sent to (i) the Republic of Korea, (ii) the United States of America, (iii) the Russian Federation, (iv) the French Republic, (v) the People’s Republic of China, (vi) Canada and (vii) the United Kingdom and (b) list of topics each of the specified vendor countries were requested to address relating to the specified invitation; if not, why not, in each case; if so, in each case, by when?