I think it is a responsibility of Ministers and our director-generals to respond to findings made by the Auditor-General with regards to national departments. With regards to municipalities, I can safely say here that the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs has put in place a support mechanism to try and assist all municipalities to respond to the audit report.
Some municipalities have been placed under administration with a different kind of support from those that are supposed to respond to certain audit queries. Now, the interministerial Committee on Service Delivery at District Level is doing very well and the lead department there is Cogta. The Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs is working very hard to address the challenges that are there in municipalities.
Of course we must accept that from time to time the Auditor-General is complaining about leadership and governance which is a matter that all of us sitting here as different political parties must look at because this is not a matter that only affects the governing party. Some of the municipalities are governed by parties that are here and they experience the same problems. Leadership and governance failures are common across almost all our municipalities.
What I am saying is that Cogta has developed a myriad of comprehensive responses to respond to these challenges. What is good to note is that through this process, Cogta is able to unblock where there are blockages in terms of
service delivery. The interministerial committee is starting to make the necessary meaningful impact. Our visits to O R Tambo and to eThekwini are starting to give us the desired impact. Thank you very much. [Applause.]