Deputy Speaker and hon Deputy Minister, while it is understandable and in fact welcomed that badly constructed houses have to be rectified if the lives of the occupants are to be any better, we have a concern as to how sustainable the project will be.
Can the Deputy Minister assure this House that it will be possible in the near future to rectify each and every house of substandard work? I am thinking, in particular, of the Eastern Cape where the smaller municipalities such as Amahlathi Municipality, which is located in the Amathole District Municipality, don't even appear in the future plans. Yet, even as we speak, the RDP houses there are falling apart and the NHBRC is not even known to exist in spite of its well thought-out mandate, which is to protect potential housing consumers from unscrupulous builders. I thank you.