Last year, during the similar moment, I had the honour to stand here and exchange farewell messages with my colleagues. As I stand here today, once more, out of the total 64 members, permanent delegates of the NCOP, only 16 came back after the sixth national elections. While this is a strategic setback to the NCOP, in terms of the restock of institutional memory, it has also presented a golden opportunity for renewal and new thinking. This is profoundly critical for the organisational change, transformation and development of the NCOP as a catalyst for sound intergovernmental relations and integrated corporative governance that is entrenched in our constitutional democracy.