Hon Chairperson, I wish to thank the Minister for indeed walking her talk and finally delivering on spectrum. At this stage, we apply and wait and see approach with the hope that all our people will reap the rewards of fair play and competition as data costs drops.
Chairperson, it is with much less enthusiasm and not with pace that the IFP raises its concern with the ongoing transition and reconfiguration of the department, the state of the Post Office and the confusion surrounding its measure or split from the Post Bank. The ever growing concern that the SABC interns to request additional TV license fees to consumers, we cannot support this arrangement.
The department is also very well known to either miss a deadline or simple just shift the goal post. The deadline of March 2020 is fast approaching for the measure of Telecoms and we are not certain whether this deadline will be reached.
Furthermore, when the committee considered the report of Sentech, Sita, BBI, Usaasa, Usaf, Sapo, Zadna and Nemisa, that most of the entities are in desperate need of leadership and can be collectively referred to as a bunch of material uncertainties.
The Auditor-General did not mince his words in outlining the liabilities that make up this group of entities and
the number of actual material uncertainties which made up the financial report.
Giving the fact that we must cut somewhere in this time of austerity, we must ask the question whether or not we must cut them when we don't see positive results and any impact.
While we are aware of the many challenges the Minister must navigate through, the IFP will support this department as long as it focuses on ensuring that we are not left behind while others are steadily implementing changes to accommodate the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We support the