Deputy Chairperson, the Minister, thank you for that answer. It is surprising as they are listed on your website as being one of the beneficiaries of the department and they do mention your department's support for them.
Now, the reason for the question is because unlike most NGOs, the ICT SMME Chamber doesn't have an annual report available anywhere on its website. Their code of conduct enforces strict confidentiality on members. There are no success stories posted. There is no information relating to what the chamber has achieved over the past few years. Even if you try to phone the number listed on the website, the number doesn't exist.
Now, it is interesting that recently the head of their Admin and Secretariat, Ms Andiswa Mosai was elected as the Speaker of the Sedibeng District Municipality on 01 August 2019. Her role at the chamber has also not been authorised or reported in advance to the council in terms of section 8 of schedule 1 of the Municipal Systems Act which is rather strange as well.
Minister, it just appears that the chamber seems to be some sort of a business forum almost that has been set up to allow ANC cadres to extract funding from the government in a different way. It is interesting that you say your department hasn't been giving them money but, the fact is that you say they got money through the Sita. Can you tell us what the conditions of that grant are?