Madam Deputy Speaker, I will forgive my colleague there for raising issues of procurement now, which are not supposed to be asked here, but you could hear that somebody said: Ask these questions. I will be able to respond to those issues. What is happening is that it is true that we have raised issues, as you put them across. With the development of these turnaround strategies, we deployed across the country our own officials, working with the officials of provinces, so that they can assist, in each and every municipality, with the development of these strategies. When they were developed, there was no need to double check whether they are speaking to our needs, because the three spheres of government, at a conceptual initial stage in the development, were part of the process. Therefore, when these matters were developed, we were happy about them.
However, the issue of procurement is a big challenge and a big issue because that is where corruption happens - at the procurement level. We have agreed with the National Treasury that we are working on amending the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act and also on ensuring that the procurement process of supply chain is addressed. At times, people take even the policies that are there, put them aside, take the law, put it aside and decide ngendlela yesintu ukuthi [in an African way] that we are now going to do this thing in this way. We want to ensure that all those practices are uprooted and dealt with. Thank you.