Hon member, through you, Chairperson, the ease of doing business programme that we are undertaking and participating with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition has now roped in the Department of Employment and Labour so we can address some of the challenges.
So, all the other departments that are implicated, either because their systems are not functional or they are a critical player in a business doing business in South Africa including SMMEs, we are all together in those engagements to try to make it easy. And we should be able through the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition- driven process to give a report of how the relaxations have done. That's why in my earlier reply I have indicated that the problem in South Africa is that the burden of doing business is applicable for both big businesses and small business, R10 000 is not much for a large business but it is a lot of money for a small business. Unfortunately, I can not commit on whether the recoup will be there because they didn't use a government official but what we can commit on is that we are determined to make sure that the environment is easier for SMMEs to operate and where they have to register, they will do it with the most ease. And we are hoping that with time we will build capacity ourselves as the department and the supporting agencies to support SMMEs directly on those.
The introduction of the common application template, we are checking whether it is not possible in all these other application forms whether online or on paper whether we can not use common templates that will make it easier. Our own template, we had to test it for the last two months making sure that it can become easy. It is not perfect, but we have committed to making it easy. Thank you.