House Chairperson, I thank the Minister for her quite comprehensive reply. Minister, you are surrounded by "Free Staters" and I am glad that you acknowledge that the Free State has some creaking infrastructure problems.
We have something here in the NCOP that we call Provincial Week, when we go and have a look at the provinces. We visited certain municipalities in the Free State that are struggling. One of them is - I could not quite hear you correctly - Nala Local Municipality. We also visited Wesselsbron, where the sewerage treatment works are totally under water, because apparently the contractor went bankrupt and now the process has to be carried on.
What worries me even more than that is that a lot of these waste water treatment facilities have no security fencing around them. Matjhabeng and Welkom are trying to cope, but it has been done on a massive scale. There is a temporary water treatment works and then they are going to build a new one, but none of these places have security fencing. As a result the copper electrical wiring and pipes are stolen. Please, can you assist the municipalities to secure what they have there?
I also want, at the same time, to thank you very much for the fact that the interns are being trained, because capacity or technical expertise is definitely lacking in a lot of the municipalities there. Thank you.