Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the NCOP, I shall move on behalf of the IFP:
That the Council -
1) notes that a special investigating unit, also known as the Cobras, had been investigating corruption in the allocation of stands for RDP housing by Ekurhuleni municipal officers and local ward councillors to people who did not qualify for them;
2) further notes that the Gauteng Department of Housing denies ever receiving a copy of the Cobras' preliminary report, in which they claim to have identified many cases of possible corruption in settlements, while the Cobras insist that they handed the report in last year;
3) realises that people have been complaining about the allocation of RDP houses, especially with regard to corruption, for many years now and that this has resulted in many problems and caused suffering to many who, after waiting for years, still do not have the houses that they were promised;
4) calls upon the relevant authorities to get to the bottom of this embarrassing fiasco between the Cobras and the department so that measures can be implemented and action taken against the people found guilty of corruption; and
(5) acknowledges that there are still too many problems and too much corruption in the allocation of RDP houses and only once this is sorted out will real service delivery with regard to RDP houses start taking place.