Thank you very much hon Deputy Chairperson and hon Deputy President, I am very glad that the national government is going to play a role in the provinces given that normally provinces will have their provincial growth and development strategies with key catalytic projects but the challenge with these projects is that the provinces would not have money to fund those projects because the transfers that are coming from the National Revenue Fund would
mainly address social services particularly in provinces that have Bantustan legacies.
My question, therefore, would be how the President is ensuring that government strengthens co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations in order to leverage the maximum benefit of funding through national department initiative in provinces in the interest of economic development. I thank you.