Minister, I think I heard you saying that the Department of Communications and Telecommunication in the post office said that the person who is involved in the tragic case of
Uyinene Mrwetyana, it was not picked up that he has a criminal record.
Minister, last week the State Security Agency met with the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Scopa, and they went through the issue that has been ongoing for a long time about vetting, and I heard that 48% of the civil servants have yet to be vetted. The State Security Agency then told them that they had informed the post office that the alleged killer in that tragic case was identified as somebody with a criminal record and nothing was done about it and they decided to proceed.
The post office created a platform for the sexual predator when they could have stopped it. My point to you is that action must be taken. The concern I want to raise with you is, what is it that you as the Minister are going to do to make sure that the human resources, HR, people in all our departments and entities do their due diligence properly to make sure that this kind of thing is picked up and that we pick up this kind of problem so early on and the focus being the HR of our departments?