Deputy Speaker, I was saying that the Minister of Finance and I reported on this now, made an intervention which Presidency asked him to make, to get all the departments to delineate amounts of money that should be reprioritised for precisely this purpose. Now, that in a way is not really part of the new budgetary process is part of the current budget and these are amounts of money that have to be reprioritised to
address this issue. So there was no need for the Minister of Finance to address this issue. I can address it politically, which I am doing because this has been an initiative which the Presidency is driving, to make sure that we address the gender-based violence issue, it is firmly in our office and therefore we can speak about it.
In speaking about it, we are going to make sure that this money R1,6 billion is utilised by various of our departments in way which will address the interventions that we want. In this regard fortunately we've got a steering committee made up of women, who are going to be watching like hawks on how this money is utilised. At the same time there will also be evaluating the various programmes that need to embarked upon, including preventative programmes. Yes we want to get to a point where we will be to be able so successful with our intervention programmes to prevent this 53 year old man, which Rev Meshoe referred to, from wanting to go and sleep with this mother. We need to embark on programmes like that and I did allude to that and said, all of us, we need to participate in embarking on programmes that will deal with the moral fibre of our nation, because
when things like that happen is almost like Sodom and Gomorrah byanong [now], that's where we have arrived, where a young man or 53 year old man now wants to sleep with this mother, and is the most appalling, moral degradation situation that we can ever imagine. It needs to be addressed and we therefore need to address that, come up with preventative measures now, unfortunately some of these things like rapes, take place in confined places, in homes and are done by either people that the victims know and all that, but that does not detract from the fact that we have a responsibility not only as government but a society to deal with these challenges that we face. Our programmes will be aimed at doing precisely that.
Hon member, the good thing is that those preventative programmes are programmes that are going to be designed, crafted by women and will embark upon them and implement them jointly together with women of our country. So, it's not going to be the sole responsibility of government, it going to be responsibility of all us acting together and I hope all of us raise our level of consciousness and alertness when it comes to that. Thank you very much.
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