Thank you, Chairperson. Minister, you've summed it up. Manual authorisations are a result of vandalism, theft, dodgy infrastructure and dodgy rails. And as you've said, the industry has been devastated over a period of time.
Hon Aucamp pointed out that we've had a drop from 2,7 million commuters using our system down to one million. One of the other big reasons for that, other than security, is the fact that it's unreliable. People can't get there on time. As you know, manual authorisations lead to massive delays and it messes up the schedule.
So my very hard question to you, Minister, relates to the war room you've started. There's a lot of talk in that war room, but today as we stand in Cape Town, people are not catching trains. They have to go elsewhere simply because the trains are not on time ... because they are being delayed. What concrete steps can you share with South Africa today that you are going to take in the short term to make sure that we sort out our system so that manual authorisations drop down to much less than the million that they are now? They are round about 60 000 a day at the moment. It's absolutely crazy. How are we going to get rid of that, Minister? What are you going to do to make sure we get rid of it so people
can slowly but surely start rebuilding their faith in the rail system as a commuter-based solution?