Hon Mister in the past financial year the City of Cape Town has ensured that it spends 89% of all capital budgets allocated for the informal settlements upgrading programme and 94% of the capital budget for the greater human settlements department which include public housing and housing development.
The City of Cape Town also spent 96% of the urban settlements development grant which is used in Metropolitan Municipalities to upgrade informal settlements.
How does this expenditure compare to other Metropolitan Municipalities across the country and what is the Minister doing to improve spend in other Metropolitan Municipalities?
The MINISTER OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, WATER AND SANITATION: The hon
member has been primed to ask this question by the Member of the Executive Council, MEC. There is no doubt in my mind about that because at the last MinMAC we had, one of the provinces that has done well is the Western Cape so I think he wanted to show off that they have done well. But, I'll tell you they have done well. I'll tell you why they have done well. [Applause.]
They have done well because two thirds of the projects that are here in the Western Cape are national projects. [Applause.] One of them is I was here and the biggest one here is the N2 that is what accounts for the success that we are talking about. Thank you very much.