Deputy Speaker, Minister is the alignment co-ordination through district planning, implementation and monitoring model, paying off to the desired outcomes in the pilot municipalities where we have implemented the district model?
The MINISTER OF COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: Thank you very much, I think it will pay off but as you know, we only launched the last pilot yesterday, actually. So we can't say it has paid off but what we can see up to now is that there is increasing change of culture of working in silos. The three spheres of government are beginning to work together but it's not something that is just going to happen over night. It's something that is going to be a change of culture but
also when we launched, we launched midstream, the plans were already there, so we were not able to plan together. What we have been able to do, is to take all the plans that are there for a particular district. We have taken what national, all the departments that have anything to do with operational requirement, OR.
We have looked at their plans, at their budget; we have done the same with the province and done the same with municipalities. So that we get a full picture of what government is doing at OR. We have also developed very extensive profiles of each district, so that we can also see whether what government is doing in those districts is speaking to the challenges of the district, but also to the opportunities, because there are lots of opportunities in those districts, that have really not been tapped. So we can't say now that it is paying off, but we are positive that what is happening now is positive. Thank you.