Hon Speaker, I would like to respond to the point raised by the hon member about clean environments: the polluted Kowie River in the Ndlambe Municipality. I experience that daily; I come from that municipality. It is very serious. It is indeed both a threat and a reality. The problem there is that the infrastructure is old.
Secondly, it was never meant to cater for all the people of the town. It was meant to cater for the white people in town only. Now you have an expanded population that draws from the same infrastructure. Now the infrastructure cannot cope. That is really the problem.
Related to that problem ... [Interjections.]
Order! Order, hon member!
In my view, it therefore means that it would be counterproductive to lay charges against the municipality, because the municipality really can do very little or nothing.
The municipality has recently acquired R30 million to try to correct the situation. In fact, it is simply holding it, because to correct it would mean it would have to overhaul the whole infrastructure.
The second issue I want to respond to is the deeds registration system. This is just a question. This is the issue that was raised by the hon Botha from Cope. I just want to say that we have scoped the situation, and we said this last week in the House. We have scoped the situation in terms of fraud, corruption and collusion. It is partly because of that that action has been taken against, for example, some of the Deeds Office officials, in Pretoria in particular, and KwaZulu-Natal.
We have roped in the Special Investigating Unit, the SIU, to take action against specific cases. We have also ordered a forensic audit so that in the long term we can go through that process and transform the deeds registration system as a whole. Thank you. [Applause.]