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551 TUESDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2008
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Name of board member Fees
(R’ thousand)
Other payments
(R’ thousand)
2007
(R’ thousand)
2008
(R’ thousand)
S Nicolaou 375 52 459 427
NR Ntshingila 450 1 376 451
BT Ngcuka 387 127 442 514
KC Ramon 375 1 466 376
Total 5 931 454 6 179 6 385
* Resigned during the current financial year.
(b) Table 2: The guaranteed annual
financial compensation and benefits
of Transnet’s executive directors
is provided in table 1 above.
The Group Chief Executive
(Transnet GCE) details are set out
below:
Group Chief Executive (R’ thousand)
Salary (basic) 4 853
Post retirement benefit fund
455
contributions:
Other contributions: —
Other payments: 103
Total 2007: 5 056
Total 2008: 5 411
Vacant posts for social workers
1652. Mrs J A SEMPLE (DA) asked the
Minister of Social Development:
How many vacant posts existed for qualified
social workers in each province in
respect of each of the past three years up
to the latest specified date for which
information is available? NW2425E
The MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOP-
MENT:
Information received from the provinces is
as follows:
Province 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Currently*
Northern Cape 188 227 239 149
Gauteng 183 111 180 193
Western Cape 53 168 155 71
Limpopo 330 138 1 315 1 308
Free State 191 282 54 330
Mpumalanga 188 153 43 35
Province 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Currently*
North West 210 132 711 711
Eastern Cape 350 223 1 056 1 297
KwaZulu-Natal 691 692 314 20
* As at September 2008.
Cost of consultants
1690. Mr C M LOWE (DA) asked the
Minister for Public Enterprises:
(1) (a) What was the total cost to the
State of consultants used by her
department in the (i) 2005-06, (ii)
2006-07 and (iii) 2007-08 financial
years, (b) what are the names of the
consultants used, (c) for what purpose
were they used and (d) what
was the reason for preferring to use
consultants instead of hiring persons
with the necessary skills;
(2) whether any former employees of
her department have been employed
as consultants in the abovementioned
financial years; if so, (a)
why and (b) why did each such
person leave her department?
NW2468E
The MINISTER FOR PUBLIC ENTER-
PRISES:
(1) The classification of Consultants in the
Standard Chart of Accounts (SCOA)
from National Treasury is very broad,
hence the disclosure of all items reflected
under consultants in the department’s
total annual expenditure. To this
end, the department has defined the
categories within this classification as