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Department for Women, Children and People with Disabilities
Republic of South Africa
THE MINISTER
QUESTION 622 FOR WRITTEN REPLY: MR DC SMILES (DA): WHICH TRAVEL AGENCIES
OR TRAVEL SERVICE PROVIDERS DOES HER DEPARTMENT USE CURRENTLY AND WHAT WAS
THE BUDGETED AMOUNT AND ACTUAL AMOUNTS PAID
INTRODUCTION
1. The above-mentioned question appears on the Internal Question Paper for
written reply in the National Assembly.
2. A draft reply to the question is attached for your consideration.
Recommendations
3. It is recommended that you:
3.1 take note of the contents,
3.2 approve the draft reply attached if you concur with its contents.
DIRECTOR-GENERAL
DATE: _____________________
QUESTION 622 FOR WRITTEN REPLY: MR DC SMILES (DA): WHICH TRAVEL AGENCIES
OR TRAVEL SERVICE PROVIDERS DOES HER DEPARTMENT USE CURRENTLY AND WHAT WAS
THE BUDGETED AMOUNT AND ACTUAL AMOUNTS PAID
DECISION
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MINISTER FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
DATE: _________________________
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 622
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 7 MARCH 2011
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 04 of 2011
622. Mr DC Smiles (DA) to ask the Minister for Women, Children and People
with Disabilities:
1) Which travel agencies or travel service providers does her Department
use currently and (b) (i) how and (ii) when were they appointed in
each case;
2) What was the (a) budgeted amount and (b) actual amount paid to each
specified service provider for Departmental travel expenditure in the
(i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10 financial years?
REPLY:
1) Travel with Flair is used for the air travel and Phakisa-world is used
for road transport management;
(b) (i) Travel with Flair was appointed through a tender
process by the Presidency and Phakisa world was appointed by
the Department of Transport as a transversal PPP contract
where all other government departments were allowed to
participate . The Presidency participated in the transversal
contract. The Department for Women Children and People with
Disabilities is currently making use of most contracts that
the Presidency has initiated and Phakisa-world contract being
one of them.
(ii) Phakisa-world was appointed on 14th November 2006 and
Travel with Flair was appointed on 13th September, 2007.
2) The Gender, Disability and Children ( GDC) was a unit in the
Presidency in the financial years 2007/08, 2008/09 and 2009/10 ,
therefore, the budget and expenditure for the then GDC unit was
reported as part of the Presidency expenditure.
(a) the budget amount for air travel and accommodation expenditure
which Is a service rendered by Travel With Flair, for
(i) 2007/08 was R2, 056, 000 and the expenditure amount was R1,
866,011.38. Budget amount for 2007/08 for road transport expenditure
which is a service rendered by Phakisa, was R 307 000.00 and the
expenditure was R769 747.02.
(ii) budget amount for 2008/09 for accommodation and air travel
rendered by Travel with Flair was R1, 763, 400.00 with expenditure of
R3, 402, 876.52. Budget amount for 2008/09 for road transport provided
by Phakisa was R205, 000 with expenditure of R258, 673.38.
(iii) budget amount for accommodation and air travel for 2009/10, a
service rendered by Travel with Flair was R5, 471, 773.00 with an
expenditure of R2, 945, 501.88. The budget for road transport rendered
by Phakisa in 2009/10 was R84, 344.00 with an expenditure of R656,
752.25.