Hon Speaker, indeed, this programme is an intervention. It is not meant to and does not have the possibility of providing jobs to the rest of the population. That is why it targets the most economically depressed communities, to try and find change agents among those communities.
Otherwise, there are other programmes which, in terms of the creation of more permanent jobs - for instance, the infrastructure development programme - are aimed at increasing jobs. There is also a plan in the pipeline to develop the marine industry. That would also create more jobs. Of course, part of the infrastructure programme is aimed at building those catalytic rail lines that are so critical for unlocking even more opportunities in the Lephalale area, as well as the manganese and iron-ore areas in the Northern Cape, to link those to the sea ports of Saldanha Bay, Coega, Maputo and Richards Bay.
So, this programme should be looked at and assessed against that backdrop: There is a much bigger and more co-ordinated programme of creating more jobs as well as sustaining jobs that is in existence today. This, of course, also calls for much more and closer co-operation with the private sector. Government can only create so many jobs and that is why the parastatals also play a very important role in this regard.