Chair, I would have thought that the hon Minister wouldn't stoop so low and just respond to vague and false accusations. However, I appreciate the way you responded, hon
Minister. Indeed, you can't be crucified for the size of your organisation. The issue that I wanted to raise is that we have a number of mining companies in the Northern Cape in particular that consistently failed to comply with the prescribed legislation. We have inspectors in the department that have a responsibility of ensuring that they monitor and enforce compliance. Now, I want to check with the Minister regarding the relation to these Trusts and how they plough back to the communities, because the Mining Charter and the MPRDA prescribed that they should plough back. So, I just wanted to check on the level of the Ministry what monitoring mechanism is done to ensure that those officials that are responsible to do that particular work do that work diligently and don't fall prey of these big companies in terms of monies and ensuring that communities benefit directly from these Trusts? Thank you.