Deputy Speaker, I wish first to thank the hon members of this House who yesterday attended the launch of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme at Muyexe Village in Limpopo presided over by the President. We appreciate their presence there.
Indeed, the programme has kicked off and it did so in a very good atmosphere. Members of the community appreciate the contribution that the government is making to improve their lives. We want to emphasise to this House that the issues that have been raised here are real. It is true that there is no water there and that even the underground water is of bad quality. We are at the moment working very hard to solve that problem.
The district municipality has already put forward R5 million. We have engineers working very hard in trying to identify a site where we could build a reservoir so that we could harvest water to be purified there. We are working on road construction and we have a model that is based on households where we will employ, as the President was saying yesterday, members of the community to construct those roads.
We are dealing with these matters and I hope that in due course we will again invite hon members to come, inspect and see how we are proceeding there. Thank you.
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