. Although the decision to pay interns in the New Infrastructure Skills Development Grant market related salaries was discussed and agreed upon with municipalities; it is imperative that there should be a mechanism to ensure that the Internship programme to place Interns at well-capacitated municipalities is successful and that the objective to transfer necessary skills to smaller municipalities is achieved. . Although the conditions of the Municipal infrastructure Grant framework clearly stipulate that the P-component of MIG amounting to 15 per cent must be used for municipal sports facilities only; it is recommended that there should either be specific conditions stipulated and included in the MIG to ring fence the allocation; or the 15 per cent allocation should be taken out of the MIG and be introduced as a separate conditional grant.