The Chairperson of the NCOP, hon Amos Masondo, hon Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP, hon Sylvia Lucas, hon Chief Whip hon, Seiso Mohai, hon members, I bring with me from the North West Province a message of well wishes to all of you, who have been elected in this sitting.
Hon Chairperson, let me take this moment to point out that we come from a predominantly rural province that has witnessed in its own share of public protests in the last nine months as a results of a variety of community complaints; however, one strange phenomenon to emanate from this protests has been some sort of a paradigm shift of protests from urban and semi- urban rural areas to rural areas of the province. This is primarily due to the following issues which had been cross-cutting in almost all the memoranda relating to community protests that we attended to.
The main issue that continue to plague our people are provision of adequate clean drinking water, as well as improved rural road infrastructure linking them to major urban centres to name but a few.
I am highlighting these two examples that we in the North West are face with in our quest to provide a better life for our people. Notwithstanding the fact, that our province is still under section 100(1) of the Constitution, this in part overseen by an ad hoc committee of the NCOP. We are making steady progress in the recovery process to stabilise the public service in the Northern West, but I want to appeal that there is a dire need to place much more emphasis on the interventions in our ailing municipalities.
This should be done not only in the North West, but should jerk up service delivery in on all struggling municipalities across the country, as these are the cold face of service delivery. With those few remarks I would like to wish members of this House all the best as they undertake their legislative responsibilities on behalf of their respective provinces. I thank you, hon Chair.