Hon Khawula, please allow the Minister to answer the question.
The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: On these issues of interventions into the 87 municipalities that were identified, we had actually worked on a particular programme of how to attend to them. We had a memorandum of understanding signed between the National Treasury and Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta. We then dispatched teams to various municipalities from national and provincial departments. These municipalities were instructed to correct budget as were not cash-backed. We also had to get the basic revenue recovery plans adopted by their councils.
Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs also identified a number of municipalities needing longer term interventions on governance and financial management. We have put up adverts to get expression of interests by individuals and companies with relevant expertise to be deployed to those municipalities to take over where the