Hon House Chair, the NFP welcomes the report tabled here today. Chair, this particular department has quite a nice name: Cooperative Governance. This means it has a responsibility to ensure that governance in the particular structures that it deals with is of the highest level and standard.
Yet, if you look at the Auditor-General's report, you would find that only 18 of these municipalities performed well. So, the question that we ask is: Is this department doing justice to achieve success in terms of the delivery of services on the ground to ensure that resources are used optimally to cut down on corruption and wasteful expenditure.
I think I have said it previously, that over R240 billion a year is lost in this country as a result of not getting value for money. Despite drawing this House's attention to that, very little or nothing is being done by this particular department to try and correct that.
Now, whilst we welcome the unqualified audit report - and I am not sure how they got that to be honest with you - what we find is that the consequence management as a result of the failures has not materialised. Very little or nothing seems to have happened about that.
However, more importantly, I want to talk about the issue of the Khoi and San since it falls under this department. There is an outcry from the Khoi and San community that
leaders are being imposed on them; they are not elected by the large masses of the Khoi and San community. I think it is matter that we need to deal with. [Time expired.] Thank you very much. The NFP will support the report.