Chairperson, yes, indeed, as I indicated in my first response, the formula for allocating resources is purely a technical formula, and we do expect it to be applied with social and economic considerations in mind as well, both at the provincial and at the municipal level.
I think a good example of our intentions in this respect is the current S'hamba Sonke roads maintenance programme, over which I know the portfolio committee has had some oversight. There the idea is not just to focus narrowly on volumes of vehicles, but to conduct road maintenance with a view to repairing critical arterial roads - to identify particular strategic roads - to do so in cost-efficient ways that are labour- absorbing, and also to encourage provinces to know their network. Very often the problem in regard to maintenance and road construction, road repair and road extension is that decisions are made in complete ignorance, at the local level very often, of the actual network that they are dealing with. With the S'hamba Sonke programme we have also identified, in particular, roads that provide access to schools and clinics, and obviously also road construction that will make roads safer, both for pedestrians and for vehicular traffic users.
So, yes, indeed, hon Bhengu, we need to look at road maintenance, road construction and road extension in a comprehensive way that critically takes into account integrated development plans, and unlocking social and economic opportunities in rural areas and, let me repeat, also in urban areas where very often the poor, the working class, suffer from many, many impediments in regard to infrastructure provision.