Chairperson, the IFP supports the budget, with concerns. This department has the biggest challenges - as my colleagues, the hon members, have pointed out, there is the issue of the directors-general who come and go without taking the department forward because of a reason one would suspect may be from the Ministry itself. That is why the directors- general cannot stay in the office.
The department has been led by acting directors-general who have no powers to take the final decisions to steer the department forward. This was shown by the continuous pouring of funds to Ncerha farms, which seem to be a bottomless pit. Millions of hectares of viable farmland lie fallow. What has happened to subsistence farming? The department has to get its act together. I thank you.