a) Human resources capacity:
Since the 2023/2024 Financial Year, the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) Fire Services Directorate have been performing annual capacity assessments within Provinces, in particular where little or no capacity exists, to determine the level of support required.
The purpose of the capacity assessments is in an effort to develop a sustained urban search and rescue capability across the country. The ...
a) (i)There is no amount of CWP budget that has been lost to corruption. The Department did not discover any fraudulent activities nor our assurance providers discovered and reported any fraudulent activities
(ii) The amount paid to undeserving benefiaries is R1,3 million.
(iii) There is no amount of CWP budget that has been lost to theft as the Department and its assurance providers did ...
Yes, we are already intervening and capacitating municipalities so that they respond better in fulfilling their constitutional mandate, that of providing basic services. The DCoG, Provinces and Salga have done a lot of training and capacity building for oversight structures in municipalities, not just in dysfunctional municipalities.
Consistent with the provisions of Section 154 of the Constitution, the Department has established a Results Management ...
The Strategies required to create work opportunities for the unemployed to contribute to improved service provision include the following:
The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) was introduced by ...
(aa) Qatar:
In May 2022, the state of Qatar donated food, equipment and other support for the victims of the April and May floods in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. The donations were facilitated by the Departments of Cooperative Governance and Social Development. On Sunday 29 May 2022, the Province of KZN received the attached consignment as a donation from the State of Qatar. The equipment ...
Based on the information at our disposal and in consultation with CWP sites in all provinces:
a) There were no cases of sexual harassment and gender-based violence reported.
b) Not applicable.
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a) For the past five years, the CWP spent as follows:
|
Financial year |
Budget |
Expenditure |
% Spent |
|
2022/23 |
4,295,349,000 |
3,828,768,000 |
89% |
|
2021/22 |
4,205,153,000 |
3,525,647,000 |
84% |
|
2020/21 |
4,098,622,000 |
3,482,391,000 |
85% |
|
2019/20 |
3,834,288,000 |
3,832,114,000 |
100% |
|
2018/19 |
3,851,123,000 |
3,328,642,000 |
86% |
b) From the past five years, the following number participants benefited from the programme:
In relation to the exact capacity available in each Province and what is required to react to national rescue disasters, the Department performs annual assessments of Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) capacity within Provinces, which includes provision of funding for training and development for purposes of establishing and maintaining sustainable USAR capacity within Provinces.
The NDMC will in the new financial year initiate a process ...
Question 1 (a)
The department of COGTA has initiated fire services capacity assessments which is updated on annual basis with all the Provincial Disaster Management Centres across the Country. The current total number of fire rescue disaster personnel are as follows:
|
Provinces |
Number of fire rescue members |
|
Western Cape |
1 452 |
|
Free State |
481 |
|
Gauteng |
3 538 |
|
Eastern Cape |
938 |
|
KwaZulu-Natal |
1 125 |
|
North West ... |
a) The Local Government: Municipal Structures Act No. 3 of 2021 introduced section 79A which now makes it mandatory for each municipality to establish Municipal Public Accounts Committees (MPAC). One of the key responsibilities of MPAC, is to review comments made by management in the audit action plan to address issues raised by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA).
To support and strengthen the functioning ...