Whether, with regard to her department’s advocacy and awareness role as well as its mandate to ensure the empowerment of women, children and people with disabilities, her department made any submissions to the Department of Trade and Industry on the revised Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) codes or lobby on behalf of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) who will be negatively affected by the revised codes; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
With reference to the Government’s Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) report for the 2012-13 financial year, which scored her department 42nd out of 42 national departments for its management practices with a red flag indicating that the department does not have a service charter and service standards, what (a) steps have been taken to put such a (i) charter and (ii) standards in place, (b) measures have been implemented to improve management performance in general and (c) challenges is her department facing in this regard?
(1) How much has (a) her department and (b) each of the entities reporting to her spent on advertisements placed on the Africa News Network 7 (ANN7) news channel; (2) were these advertisements placed through the Government Information and Communications System?
(1) What amount has (a) her department and (b) each of the entities reporting to her spent on advertising (i) in The New Age newspaper and (ii) on its website between 1 December 2012 and 31 August 2013; (2) were these advertisements placed through the Government Information and Communication System?
What has her department done to advocate for increased funding of nongovernmental organisations that deliver core services to the country’s most vulnerable citizens?
Whether the first national men’s rally to end men’s violence against women which was held in Johannesburg on 24 August 2013 had any financial implications for her department; if so, (a) what costs were incurred, (b) how many people attended the rally and (c) how will the effectiveness of this initiative be measured?
(1) What amount has (a) her department and (b) each of the entities reporting to her spent on advertisements placed on the SABC 24 hour news channel; (2) were these advertisements placed through the Government Communication and Information System?
With reference to the R388 000 in outstanding payments reflected in her department’s 2012-13 budget, (a) to whom is the money owed and (b) how will these outstanding payments impact the 2013-14 financial year’s budget?
Did she undertake a trip on the MS Liberty of the Seas between 24 August and 1 September 2013 in her professional capacity; if so, (a) what was the purpose of the trip, (b) who accompanied her and (c) what was the cost of the trip?
(1) Whether any performance bonuses were paid to employees in her department in the 2012-13 financial year; if so, what is the total (a) number of employees that received bonuses and (b) amount paid out by her department for these bonuses; (2) what percentage of outputs were achieved by her department as measured against each target set in its Annual Performance Plan in the 2012-13 financial year?
