The difference
between the question that you asked and what you are saying now is that there was attribution to ... for our President as having delayed. So I have cleared that. It was assented to in the same year that it was passed.
Then I articulate that, following the President's assent of that law, regulations needed to be developed. That took time. In other words, I'm with you on the delay thereof, including on the setting up of the unit. But on ... to respond directly to you now ... one, we have taken a thorough audit in terms of where the bottlenecks were in terms of developing these regulations to ... so that you operationalise the law as it was passed. And we are clear on those.
But, the law doesn't ... When there is a delay, it's like in a football match. When you pass the ball meant for your number nine and it goes to your number 10, you don't take your player out. What you do is, you coach further.
So what we do ... what we have identified is that this is where things went wrong. This is where there were delays. And we have undertaken ... and we are committing now to you that we are not going to do as they did. We are going to avoid all those pitfalls
and move ahead. As of now, I can assure you that I am meeting this team tomorrow, because the first thing that we need to do is to locate them properly, closer to the wishes of the Public Administration Management Act, Act 11 of 2014. We are discussing that as we finalise the organogram which we have developed since we came and we are finalising it so that they are not stunted somewhere; they are properly located and ...
So we will move such that we make up for all the other difficulties that we have come ... It is the same. If you take a plane from Cape Town to Johannesburg ... if there is a delay, you don't punish the pilot midair, because you will all fall. That's what I'm saying.