add up to R20 billion per year to municipal capital investment - an amount that can make a tremendous contribution to expanding the ability of cities to invest in much-needed upgrades to their economic infrastructure. However, these partnerships to increase investment and our efforts to improve ... I beg your pardon. These partnerships that we actually mobilise to increase investment help our efforts to improve the financial sustainability of municipalities more broadly and will only work if residents pay for the services they receive. Municipal finances will only be sustainable if residents pay for the services they use. As we said in the Budget Speech, "Thuma Mina! Pay your municipal bills on time".