... because Prof Wainer is busy with the forensic audit. We have agreed with him that the deadline should be the end of May. It is hoped that by the end of May he will be finished. We will submit the report in June if he has given it to us. Then you will know whether there was a rat or not. [Laughter.] So let us wait. Otherwise, thank you for everything else you said.
To the hon Mbhele I just want to say that it is always good for hon members to talk facts, because this House and the nation does not expect you to speak fiction. It is fiction that we have extended the deadline on the Zimbabwean registration. We have not extended the deadline. But it is common sense that if you say, come and register and bring your forms by 31 December, that obviously on 1 January you would not have processed those forms - you would have received them, but not processed them. That is just common sense. I know it is not very common. [Laughter.] You then have to process them. All that we have said is that from our side, we will be finished with processing and then everything will go back to normal by August.
In fact, we are going to finish very soon, although we will still be waiting for those that have to submit their passports. However, if they have not submitted their passports by then, tough luck, because the project will come to a close. I just want to say: Please, fact not fiction in the House.
I also want to thank the hon Mbhele. We heard what he said but we want to stress that immigration practitioners have nothing to do with us. They can do their business, as I have said before, but people who want our services must come to Home Affairs. If you want a passport or an ID you come to Home Affairs. Why should foreigners never set foot in a Home Affairs office? We don't even know if these people that we are processing forms for exist or not. We don't even know whether they have left their countries or whether they are still in their countries. So we cannot do things that are detrimental to our country. Let them do whatever they want to do in terms of their business, but at Home Affairs, if you want a service, you come to us - that is all we are saying - like any South African.
Regarding the hon Mnqasela's speech, I actually think, Chair, that "amanyala" ["sh*t"] should not be allowed in the House. But since you have allowed it, I think "ulinyala yena" ["you are disgusting"]. [Laughter.] I say that because he distorts ...
Ulalela obasi bemthuma njengesimakwana, uyazi ukuthi sinomahambanendlwana, ugogo akasuki eMqanduli noma kuphi ahambe ngezinyawo aye eMtata, bakhona omahambanendlwana. [He obeys his bosses, who send him around like a puppy. He knows that we have mobile offices; an elderly person does not travel from Mqanduli or from somewhere else to Mtata; there are mobile offices.]
But he is choosing to be not too honest ... ... inyala-ke lelo. [Uhleko.] Okwesibili, uyazi ukuthi khona manje ... [... that is a disgrace. [Laughter.] Secondly, he knows that right now ...]
... we have not received any money from the National Treasury for printing passports. They have asked us to establish a trade account. People pay for every passport that is applied for and we pay the Government Printing Works. That is why we had to cost it like that.
In fact, we have undercosted it. It's just that we have not included, for instance, the amounts that we pay officials at the front office and all that. We have to pay GPW directly. We don't have the budget for it. Last year, as you yourself know, GPW said we owed them money because we were paying them what we had and not what they were costing.
Let me also say that I am very disappointed with you, hon Lovemore. If you were not an hon member, I would say you are a liar, but because we are not allowed to use that word in the House ... [Interjections.] ... I will not say it. I will not say it. Let me say why I said "if you were not an hon member". Let me explain. You said that I have not answered 60 questions ...