Speaker, in delivering her state of the province address, the Premier of the Western Cape seems to have drawn inspiration from the ANC in announcing her provincial government slogan of "Better together". As we all know, the ANC has consistently communicated this message and our commitment to the people, in both our local government election slogan that "Together, we can build better communities", and our national election slogan that "Working together, we can do more to create a better life for all." [Applause.]
It is a pity that she merely mouths the slogan without concretely improving the lives of the majority of our people who live in the Western Cape. The backlog in the delivery of housing, which is a major challenge and concern in the province, was relegated to the end of her address as an afterthought. Her comment that the problems in housing delivery were a result of problems with co-operative governance, indicates the reluctance of the DA to recognise and accept the ANC-led government's progressive policies, which are biased towards poor people. [Interjections.]
She neither mentioned how many government-issued houses have been built in the past, nor indicated how many are going to be built this year, so a comparison cannot be made with the actual delivery at the end of 2012. There were no projects targeting any black residential areas, or the Cape Flats, where the majority of the province's poor people reside. [Time expired.]