Hon Lee, I couldn't agree with you more that this is what we should do. This is a very important lesson that we need to draw from the experience of hosting the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. There are all of these concurrent competencies, and so on. We need to cut across that administrative and bureaucratic need to account and ensure that we process matters within the shortest possible time and also look at the quality of the projects and what is being delivered.
This weekend I spent time in a place called Namibia in Mangaung, Free State. It is called Namibia, but it is in Mangaung. We're a wonderful country. [Laughter.] A place that used to be an informal settlement is now formalised. There are RDP houses, and the people there are happy. They said to me that their experience of the new sewer system that they have is that they get rain from the ground and not from the heavens because the sewer system blocks. It does so because the pipes used are narrow.
The contract was given and the civil engineering company laid out the sewer system, the pipes, and so on, but cut costs by utilising narrow pipes. It is very clear that they are already blocking today. In the next 10 years when the population density increases, it would be a disaster.
So, the province has to pull all of that out and replace it with pipes of a better quality. That is a lesson that, for every major project, we must have a team that monitors from day one that those who have won the contract deliver in accordance with specifications. That is what we need to do. Of course, as Premier Zille indicated here yesterday, the time taken to process simple applications is just too inordinate for us to be efficient. We need to address those bottlenecks. Thank you.