It is incorrect to say that DPME is a duplication of Stats SA. It just cannot be correct. It can only be said by those who are very ill-informed. [Interjections.]
The DPME ... Maybe before we even go to what it has done, the Media Development and Diversity Agency, MDDA, Brand SA and the Government Communication and Information System, GCIS, are entities that the President had determined to move from Communications to the Presidency. Indeed, to all colleagues who have debated here, we will
debate about these entities that are new in the Presidency when we debate on Vote 1 on 17 July, next week. For now, we are debating the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. That is Vote 8. So, I just want to make our colleagues understand that we will have an opportunity to delve deeper into these three entities.
The DPME is the custodian of what we all, as a country, decided to adopt in 2012 and that is the National Development Plan. That NDP, how we achieve it, and what our omissions in achieving the NDP targets by 2030 are in the work of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. [Interjections.] Again, that is free education. [Interjections.]