It does not mean the maintenance of the status quo and acceleration of inequalities. Clean governance and improved services have everything to do with ensuring that government funds are used appropriately to benefit all citizens, irrespective of their colour. It means improving the lives of the poor and the previously disadvantaged. It means bringing clean water to those who, because of the dark complexion of their skins, were forced to drink from the same well as animals. It means making sure that those who were forced to help themselves in buckets and on fields get decent, water-borne toilets. It means that those who grew up playing in dusty roads get appropriate recreational and sporting facilities. It means that those whose cars were driven on roads full of dust and potholes get tarred roads like those in the so-called urban areas. It means that those whose movements were restricted and who could not make choices regarding where they wanted to live and work get such freedoms. It means that those who, for years, were forced to learn under trees will get proper schools. It means not knowing the stars and candles as the only source of light at night. We all need electricity; it is our right. It means an improved public transport system. It means talking more about Soweto as one of the good models and examples of how townships should be developed and how townships should be improved. It means talking more about our improved public health institutions, not private hospitals meant for and serving largely the rich.
We want to see more resources being released to develop areas like Nyanga, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu and Philippi. We want to see these areas being improved and developed like Soweto before celebrating improved services when such benefit old beneficiaries. A slogan like "Re direla botlhe", [we work for all] with nothing to back it up in practice, is being cruel to the truth.
Chairperson, I am satisfied that the committee has discharged its duties as expected and is satisfied with how the national revenue funds have been allocated. I therefore table the report for adoption by this House. [Applause.]