(1)With reference to the announcement by the President of the Republic, Mr M C Ramaphosa, in April 2020 of additional COVID-19 Economic and Social Relief measures aimed at assisting small, medium and micro enterprises, spaza shop owners and other informal businesses in the form of loans, grants and debt restructuring, which to date has a value of over R100 million with an additional amount of R2 billion that will be made available, what number of spaza shops (a) applied for the support and (b) were successful with their applications;
(2) what methodology was used for the distribution of the funding to successful applicants;
(3) whether there was a fixed amount for each applicant; if not, what was the (a) minimum and (b) maximum amount an applicant could be approved for; if so, what was the amount;
(4) what (a) total amount of R175 million was distributed, (b) amount of the funds remained unspent and/or unallocated and (c) has become of the unallocated funds?” NW551E