Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank the hon Deputy President. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Ministerial Handbook and your response, I'd like to point out that the continental adjudicators of the Mo Ibrahim award have embarrassingly decided not to award this prestigious award to the 11 qualifying candidates, including our own former President Thabo Mbeki.
Considering the public appeals by the President, the Deputy President and various Cabinet Ministers - past and present - to all public figures to lead by example of frugality in these times of economic difficulty, and further considering that Kenya, which notoriously figures far worse than South Africa on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index - with South Africa placed 54th and Kenya 147th - and that Kenya has instructed all its Cabinet members to return for resale all excessively expensive ministerial vehicles and has placed a ceiling on vehicle engine capacity of 1800cc or 1,8 litres for all Ministers, is the ANC government going to allow the successive display of conspicuous consumption to continue unchecked or is it going to reverse this display of greedy avarice? Even if we get less for a second-hand motorcar, it would be a wonderful example to the people that are suffering under poverty in this country.
Can we have a timeframe, hon Deputy President, regarding when these recommendations are going to be made by this task team? Thank you. [Applause.]