There were also other issues that needed to be clarified for Members.

A lot was said about costing and pricing health care packages. The IEC had turned the two weekends into the start of registration and that resulted in a stampede over the two weekends.

Planning should be linked to a scientific understanding of the pandemic.

Ms van der Merwe stated that she had not been able to read the letter as her parliamentary email was not working.

Mr S Kholwane, Commissioner, FFC, said as much as South Africa is consuming, it seems as though more is consumed outside of the country through importing than what is consumed locally through production, localisation, and import substitution, as a matter of trying to mitigate the current circumstances faced. He wanted to know so that Committee could punch holes in the plan if it didn’t work, well ahead of the elections. The peak was projected for September and there would be by-elections in November.
In response to Mr Roos’s question, he said that he could confirm that the IEC had ongoing collaboration with a number of state institutions, including StatsSA around the issue of dwellings and physical addresses, but he would reply in full in the written response.
As to this being a challenge, it is a big problem which makes the country unstable – especially because it goes along racial lines. It was critical for the IEC to have a balance between freedom of speech and social media that was not manipulative or provided misinformation.

The National Health and Education sector departments, including National Treasury and the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), are responsible for making IGR operational. The recommendations in Chapter Three, Four, and Six, really make a lot of sense and, as a Committee, it is thought the recommendations must be considered – especially around the issue of translating policy into legislation by the DBE. Positive procurement outcomes for the Voter Management Device. When would the IEC share the information about that process?

The meeting was intended to look into the state of readiness of the IEC to run the Local Government Elections in 2021. He asked if the FFC is scrutinising, following, and monitoring what the R500 billion package is bringing out to the people. The matter was for discussion and concurrence. The idea of extending or shortening a period of election would be difficult to do once an election had taken place as that would fall foul of the constitution. The IEC had made huge progress in obtaining the addresses of voters. There is a very big question mark about if South Africa will be able to raise the R700 billion on savings. A political decision is made which trumps the constitutional responsibility of a municipality, economic decisions, fiscal viability, tax base of the municipality, and if the municipality can afford to deliver services. In attempting to do so, there are suggestions to minimise interactions with the FFC when it comes to provinces.

He tabled the letter and would seek concurrence in the next meeting.

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There are certain jobs which will be lost forever as a result of Covid-19. He also asked if it is still possible for South Africa to implement this.

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Mr Mashinini stated that he would request his fellow Commissioners to participate by responding to specific questions and then the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer could respond to the operational issues. There is a bigger problem than money, which is only part of the problem. If NHI policy is affordable, can only be determined once the FFC knows the costing and pricing of it. ECD is part of this.