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DA Natasha Mazzone’s boss whip: With reference to your comment in the National Council of Provinces on March 3, 2020 that each and every district municipality will have a plan that is a combination of the national government, the provincial government, and the municipalities, what are the details? relevant of (a) how the delivery of social and other services of the different government departments, their public entities and the provincial and local governments will now be affected by the cut of their budgets by a sum of R10.5 billion in the 2020-21 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement to fund SA Airways’ business rescue plan and (b) the steps the government intends to take to mitigate the negative effects budget cuts will have on service delivery social and / or other?
EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu: If, with respect to your capacity as chair of the inter-ministerial agrarian reform committee, you have been informed that some of the lands that are advertised for state disposal to emerging farmers are already occupied and used by communities and some emerging farmers; if not, what is the position on the matter; If so, what measures have you taken with regard to the rights of the people already occupying the farms?
ANC MP Grace Tseke: With reference to your assertion in the National Council of Provinces on March 3, 2020 that the government is not considering privatizing SA Airways (SAA) as it believes it can cope with the challenges faced by the airline, and in view of the more than R 16.5 billion that the government has allocated to the recapitalization of SAA over the past decade and the recently announced additional allocation of R 10.5 billion to SAA by the Minister of Finance in his 2020 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, which (a) Can you assure South Africans that the government will ensure that the money to be managed by business rescue professionals will lead to sustainable SAA change and (b) steps will be taken to restructure SAA and strengthen capacity of your management? going forward?
MP Mzamo Buthelezi of the IFP: Given the recent disappointing announcement of financial results made by the electric power company Eskom for the financial year ending March 2020 and citing its unsustainable debt burden which caused a net loss of R20.5 billion, (a) ¿ what is the government’s response to the announcement? and (b) how does the government intend to implement a rapid response to the problems cited by Eskom?
FF Plus MP Michal Groenewald: Yes, with reference to your response to written question 2084 of November 2, 2020 on the identification of the local municipality of Maluti-a-Phofung as a service delivery hotspot, you support the decision of the provincial government of the Free State to put end to the intervention of article 139; if not, what were the reasons why the provincial intervention was terminated; If so, what measures have been taken to settle the municipality’s historical outstanding debt with Eskom?
ANC MP Bernice Swarts: Since the scourge of gender-based violence and feminicide (GBV) is one of the symptoms of the decline of morals, what progress has been made to place GBV at the epicenter of the Moral Regeneration Program and its implementation?
