Speaker, this morning The Cape Times reported on the continuous corruption in the Public Service. Yesterday, the Public Service Commission reported that the money that has been siphoned off within the Public Service by the Public Service to do business in the department has almost reached R1 billion.
They further made the point that there is a failure by leadership to ensure that this sickness and illness of corruption within the Public Service is rooted out. They made a point about the fact that there is the failure of the cooling-off period that has to be imposed on senior public servants in order to do business or engage in lucrative contracts with the state, but the leadership is actually failing to make this happen.
As we speak, we are worried that fighting corruption and the practical action of making sure that we root it out by introducing a cooling-off period, including in the legislation, is taking ages. We are wondering whether, as a government, you are walking the talk, because we are talking about fighting corruption, but when we have to do something like including financial disclosure of senior officials, we continuously fail to do so. What exactly do you mean by fighting corruption?