Hon House Chairperson, hon Minister the poor delivery of services by government to our people has become common course and so embedded in the very fibre of our government. What steps is the Minister taking to ensure that she debunks this way of thinking and to prevent this from continuing, because in this department for an example, you find that there is lot of toilets that are whether unfinished or service sites or it's housing and
all that, so what steps are you taking to actually prevent, you know that situation from happening in the future? We understand what has happened now, but for future purposes, what are the steps? Thank you.
The MINISTER OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, WATER AND SANITATION: Hon
member at this particular juncture I am certain that you know that I depend on you and every other Member of Parliament to assist in delivering the services. When your party goes out there and campaign for votes for next year, whatever, and what you are promising them, is going to provide you with this, that and the other. You can still do with us in government, because we will be here for a long time, but we need you to assist [Laughter.] We need you as Members of Parliament to assist us, come up with solution of what it is we can do in specific conditions.
What is available for government is the fact that we are able to directly go to the problem and make sure that it is done. What is available to you is continuously be there, to be the ears and eyes of government because it your people, our people which are suffering this, so I would like you in future, comrade that you talk about us. What are we going to do to solve this problem, both you and I? [Applause.] Thank you.
MS E L POWELL: Just to add the response that the hon Minister delivered on Stellenbosch. The Mandela City informal settlement dates back to 1994, it has been upgraded by Stellenbosch Municipality as recently as June this year. New toilets have been built providing each of the 183 households with their own private toilet base and wash bin. This is now one to one service which is far above norms and standards. A tender has gone out to replace the toilet doors and other informal settlements in the municipality that are constantly damaged by vandalism. In light of toilets, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, CoGTA, recently responded to a question that I submitted, noising that 1200 toilets are provided to the 15 000 residents in Lindelani informal settlement and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality at the cost of roughly a million rand a month. I visited Lindelani informal settlement last night, I can confirm that these apparent toilets are in fact no way to be found. If the toilets have now been distributed, does the Minister know where they are and if not will she commit to investigate?
The MINISTER OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, WATER AND SANITATION: You know
I am amazed that the hon member will stand up and repeat exactly what has been told me which I indicated to Parliament and has been challenged by the member of the EFF as not been true. So, what we
are going to do is I am going to ask the portfolio committee to go check whether indeed in Stellenbosch what you are telling us here is true or not true. If it is not true we are going to look for necessary consequences.
We are going to go to Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality as well; the matter that you are talking about has not been brought to my attention, we will also go to Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and found out if in fact there are any toilets and get the cost of that particular toilet but let's us not avoid the question we are dealing with now. The question that was before me was about the Nelson Mandela City informal settlement and the information that has been given to me seems to be incorrect, that's what got to find out and we going to go out and check on this.
Question 278: