Thank you, Hon House Chair. Hon Minister, following the Minister's request in terms of section 22(2) of the Municipal Demarcation Act, the Municipal Demarcation Board has raised concerns that during the process of redetermination of boundaries many municipalities do not fully participate in the process. The question is, how can the department intervene or
assist in ensuring that there is maximum participation particularly from those affected municipalities? Thank you.
The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: Thank you. Yes, you are correct. We have started working with the Demarcation Board to make sure that when they go to a municipality, the municipality and the councillors in that municipality are informed. The community must know that they must participate. This is something that we are doing. Yes, they have raised that with us that when they go to municipalities they only meet with planners in the municipality and people don't know, councillors don't come, and then when the demarcation has been done they start complaining because they were not in the discussions. So it is something that we are working on as I say we are making sure that they are informed and we hope that they will indeed participate. There is a process of encouraging them to participate in those discussions. Thank you.