(1)With regard to the recent announcement that conditional grant funding will be withheld from municipalities due to non-performance, (a)(i) which municipalities in each province were first identified as at risk of not spending part or all of their conditional grant funding and were given an opportunity to motivate why they should not have their grant funding stopped and (ii) what are the relevant details of the specified funding, (b)(i) which municipality in each province was not able to sufficiently motivate for the full transfer of their allocated conditional grant funding and will have that funding stopped and (ii) what are the relevant details of the specified grant funding and (c) what is the total amount nationally, from each conditional grant, that will be stopped and not paid to municipalities;
(2) what is the impact on the residents of the specified municipalities of the reduction in their grant funding;
(3) what role does he envisage the (a) provincial governments and (b) National Treasury should play in supporting municipalities to perform and spend their funding allocations;
(4) whether he has found that the National Treasury and/or the respective provincial governments fulfilled their obligations to support the municipalities; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?