Thank you very much, Mr Speaker! I knew this would have some positive effect, but I hope Cope does not mistake me for a Cope member! [Laughter.] Although I feel like a fish out of water standing here, luckily, I do not have my blue shoes on. [Laughter.] Some of you who watched the adverts will know about the blue shoes and the yellow coat.
I am here to proclaim the IFP's unequivocal support for and co-operation with Census 2011. I have a few points that I want to raise. Firstly, there were reports that the Minister still did not have enough enumerators. Some were interviewed, but have taken up other occupations since then. So, can we just know if you have enough enumerators? Another concern would be the safety of enumerators. We know there are many volatile areas where there have been service delivery protests and other kinds of protests and I do hope that Statistics SA have carefully considered the safety of these enumerators when they go out.
I think the hon Trollip has mentioned foreigners in the country. I think it is a matter of concern that a number of them come across our borders. He mentioned two provinces, namely the Western Cape and Gauteng, but I think in KwaZulu-Natal you also get them coming across the borders from Mozambique. We know that a census is a wonderful tool to assist government in planning the distribution of resources; not only financial resources, but infrastructural resources as well. We know full well that any number of clinics and schools are overloaded because of the numbers of people that come into the area through rapid urbanisation, and Census 2011 would provide a mechanism for government to know exactly where to place these resources.
Mr Minister, in 1890 someone said, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics". With Census 2011 we hope that this is not the case after the whole exercise has been done. We fully support it and we say, "Viva Census 2011, viva!"