Chair, we really do believe that the diagonisation of the problem by all parties is correct. It is the categorisation thereof which is wrong because
once you start saying that the misuse of water is of the national Parliament it becomes wrong. Water is used by residents in the local areas, and not by the national Parliament. People that misuse and mismanage water are residents themselves and not the party or the national Parliament.
The issue of water and polluting is true, and is not done by the national Parliament or by the ANC, but it is done by the residents, business and farmers themselves. We believe that the nonrevenuing of water, not billing people, can only be addressed by correctly using the Water on Leaks people that we have employed. Of course, there is a way in which we need to correct them to work in a manner that will correct the situation. It is not correct that War on Leaks is a corrupt activity. It was a good organisation which needed to bring water in to the issue.
Unfortunately, most of the parties decided to put people who are not part of the committee to talk and then they missed the point. In the committee we all agreed that the interministerial task team, IMTT, was not active after
the Fifth Parliament and it must be activated. Just for your information, the interministerial task team has brought to us as a committee that all the Ministers that are in the cluster and the SA Local Government Association, Salga, have agreed that ...
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