Chairperson, the DA is shocked but not surprised to find that 10 months after the Human Rights Commission had ordered the enclosure of toilets in Viljoenskroon, Moqhaka Municipality, those toilets remain unenclosed. More than 500 toilets remain unenclosed, proving yet again that the ANC-led council has little regard for the rights of residents to human dignity, privacy and a clean environment. What, however, can we expect when the contract to construct these toilets was awarded to a family-owned business, Danteb Building Construction CC, run by Mantebu Mokgosi, the executive mayor of Moqhaka at the time, and her husband? This is just one more example of how service delivery to the poorest of the poor, the unemployed and the desperate is hampered by the selfish greed of Public Service representatives doing lucrative business with state resources.
The municipality contracted Dilemopumo Construction and Trading to enclose these toilets. This company is doing such a bad job that recently built enclosures are falling apart. This comes at an additional, inflated cost of R2,559 million.
No government is perfect, but good governments are responsive and take the needs of the people seriously and rectify mistakes when they are made. That is what the DA aspires to do where it governs. Where the ANC governs, its cadres are plundering state resources while millions of our people continue to live a life devoid of human dignity. [Applause.]