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589 THURSDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2008
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Establishment of new teaching posts
1631. Mr L B LABUSCHAGNE (DA) asked
the Minister of Education:
How long does it take to approve a new post
establishment at a school? NW2406E
The MINISTER OF EDUCATION:
Education MECs approve post establishments
on a yearly basis. Preliminary establishments
are provided to schools in October
of each year and final establishments before
the end of the school year for implementation
in January of the next school year.
Audits conducted by Spoornet
1643. Mr SBFARROW (DA) asked the
Minister for Public Enterprises:
(1) Whether any audits have been conducted
by Spoornet to determine the
current state of their carriages, locomotives
and trucks; if so, (a) what
has been revealed by the audit and
(b) how many wagons and locomotives
are (i) serviceable and (ii)
unserviceable;
(2) whether any plans are in place to
refurbish or replace unserviceable
carriages, locomotives and trucks to
meet the current demands; if not,
why not; if so, what is the estimated
cost of refurbishing or replacing the
unserviceable carriages, locomotives
and trucks? NW2416E
The MINISTER FOR PUBLIC ENTER-
PRISES:
(1) Internal assessments were carried out in
June 2007 to determine the technical
condition of its rolling stock fleet.
Rolling stock fleet includes carriages or
wagons and locomotives. Transnet
Freight Rail (Spoornet) does not make
use of trucks.
(a) and (b)(i) to (ii) The tables below
indicate the findings of the assessment
according to carriages or
wagons and locomotives which
are serviceable and those that are
unserviceable.
Table 1: Carriages or wagons serviceable
and unserviceable
Description Number
Wagon Serviceable Fleet 89 149
Wagon Unserviceable 11 201
Table 2: Locomotives serviceable and unserviceable
Description Number
Locomotive Serviceable Fleet
(including narrow gauge)
2 392
Locomotive Unserviceable Fleet 540
(2) Yes, there are plans in place to refurbish
or replace certain elements of the rolling
stock fleet to meet the current
demands. These upgrades or repairs are
only done where the cost of doing so
makes commercial sense. The anticipated
cost of repairs and upgrading of
the fleet is part of approved five-year
capital investment plan (2008-09 to
2009-13) which provides for R1,96bn
for locomotive upgrades and R12,7bn
for new locomotives. There is R765m
budgeted for wagon upgrades and
R2,59bn for new wagons. These figures
are part of Transnet Freight Rail’s
R38,3bn portion of Transnet’s capital
investment plan.
Cost of entities’ annual reports
1699. Mr G G BOINAMO (DA) asked the
Minister of Education:
In respect of the 2006-07 and 2007-08
annual reports of her department and the
annual reports of each statutory and other
entity reporting to her, (a) what was the (i)
budgeted cost, (ii) actual cost and (iii) unit
cost of each annual report and (b) how
many copies of each were (i) produced
and (ii) distributed? NW2479E