Indeed, the member is correct that the current challenge that we have with the virus has affected budgets. We have had to reprioritise these budgets as departments. We had to cut off many other things which are not necessarily critical or urgent so there are quite a number of areas we had to reduce. Fortunately there are other areas which we could not implement or other programmes could not be implemented because of the problem. We did not athletics, we did not have music. All other social projects have been brought to a halt.
Those resources have been channelled to assist ourselves and provinces to prioritise programmes which will make us COVID-19 compliant. So, how will we identify the critical schools? We have taken the Education Infrastructure Grant, EIG resources which were meant for building new schools. We are taking that money to help us supplement water as I said we have a contract with the Department of Water and Sanitation. We agreed with them on, on time delivery. We did not want do deliver water on the fourth and come back and find our tanks stolen or taken away.
What is currently happening Madam Speaker is that the Department of Water and Sanitation in provinces is busy rolling out and delivering those tanks? It was deliberate that the deliveries will only start on 25 May when we are close to opening and when there is activity in schools especially with the current violence or even distraction of our infrastructure. It would not have been wise to go into schools when it was still very quiet.
Now that there is activity from this Monday, we are rolling out infrastructure that we think is vulnerable and that process is going on even over the weekend we do expect them to have deliveries. It was deliberate not to deliver even before the 25 to protect those assets.
Question 140:
The DEPUTY MINISTER OF SPORTS, ARTS AND CULTURE: Speaker, the
Legacy Trust has indicated to us that it did not receive
R1 billion from the FIFA World Cup, rather they had received R450 762 816 million; and this money was paid to them in three tranches: the first amount was paid in September 2011, the second one was paid on 26 September which was twenty million and the last one was paid on 16 April 2012 and it was about one-seventy... [Inaudible.]
Now, this amount, in total, of course, it was then paid to SA Football Association, SAFA: nationally, regions and local. It was also used for bursaries, it was also paid to the local football associations and it was also used for the development through football organizations; health and education. But the details ... they have given us the full details of the breakdown and we can submit that [Inaudible.] Thank you very much.