Hon member, why are you rising?
IsiZulu:
Ngiyabonga Mhlonishwa wami ngiyamuzwa ekhuluma uMhlonishwa uNgqongqoshe, lento ibuhlungu ngoba abantu ababoshiwe kwiyimanje. Kunamacala engiwafakile. Laba bantu ababoshiwe kuyaziwa. Bona ngoba behamba nonogada.
USIHLALO WENDLU (Nk M G Boroto): Ngiyabonga Mama.
English:
Thank you very much.
IsiZulu:
USIHLALO WENDLU (Nk M G Boroto): Mam 'uKhawula indaba yakho ibalulekile kakhulu. Ngicela ukuthi ungamyeki uNgqongqoshe, umbambe uma ephuma lapha nikhulume ngayo lendaba.
Thank you, House Chair. Hon Minister, ideally, this department should play an oversight role in
all other departments to see to it that the agenda of women, youth and people living with disabilities carried out. Has this department made an effort to specifically present this agenda with other departments to ensure that there are majors to address this, the historical injustice? I thank you.
The MINISTER IN THE PRESIDENCY FOR WOMEN, YOUTH AND
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: Thank you, hon member. This matter is a standing item on the cluster meeting of criminal justice system ...
Sepedi:
... mo re dulago le bona batho ba.
English:
I turn around because I saw Minister Cele sitting here, and he was with us in Lephalale the other day. Therefore, when we were launching 16 Days of Activism, he came out with the six-point plan and outlined the things that they will be doing from the police's side from a rape kits to all the things that we will need. Working together with social development and all other departments including
justice, they are busy launching special code throughout the country. Within the next coming 12 months odd we will have 12 new ones. One has been launched in Limpopo. Yes, a journey of less than six months cannot be that of five years. Join us in ensuring that as we adopt the National Strategic Framework, the new one, we are making use of this time and period like the President has given us of six months, ensuring ...
Sepedi:
... gore, ge re re go lekane, go lekane; go be bjalo.
Question 319:
The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: Chairperson, section 41 of the Municipal Finance Management Act, MFMA, provides for the National Treasury to monitor prices and payments for bulk resources.
Further, the Act provides for each organ of state, providing such bulk resources to a municipality, to within 15 days after the end of each month furnish the National Treasury with the written statements setting out for each municipality, for each municipal entity
providing municipal services on behalf of such municipalities, the amount to be paid by the municipality or municipal entity for such bulk resources for that month and for the financial year up to the end of the month.
The arrears owing and the age profile of such arrears and any action taken by that organ of state to recover arrears.
So, though it is under section 41 of the Municipal Financial Management Act, that is for Treasury to monitor prices and payments for bulk resources. We do work with them Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, CoGTA, to try and assist municipalities. That's all I can say.
Hon Minister, in as much as municipalities owes Eskom and the water boards billions of rand, it is not merely as heavy as the debt owed by municipalities, by households and the state. What has the department done so far in ensuring that there are campaigns run cultivating and a culture of payment by the
community for service rendered, given that the culture on non-payment for the services by the citizens had been condemned by both the Minister of Finance and the President of the country?
The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: Chairperson, I think that campaign should be waged by everyone, every single one of us must wage that campaign of changing the culture of non-payment so that everybody pays for what they use.
Sorry, hon Minister. Do you mind to talk into the mic, I think ... thank you ma. I'm sorry for that. Continue. Yes, thank you.
IsiZulu: