Madam Deputy Speaker and hon Dambuza, let me assure or reassure the House that we will remain seized with this matter, as I indicated. It is correct, hon Dambuza, that outsourcing such a critical function, against the background of how people outside there are protesting and sometimes engaging in wrongful violent protests, should be reviewed. Outsourcing to private contractors such critical functions as housing lists, how people queue and the allocation to beneficiaries is something that we want to review. I will be having a meeting tomorrow with our Minmec, all nine MECs, in Durban and I will put this before them.
Contractors must be removed from handling housing lists because there is always the danger that at the end of the day their decisions, not those of government officials or of government political leaders, will be the ones that influence the course of history outside there. [Applause.]
It is important, therefore, that this House is assured that we will remain seized with this problem. We are going to put a Special Investigating Unit, SIU, onto the people involved and onto those contractors who have manipulated the lists. Let me tell you also that five lawyers have been disqualified and struck off the roll because they were involved in machinations of this type. I thank you. [Applause.]