Hon House Chair, we are equally concerned that after all these procurements which are happening at short notice because of the emergency. We do not end up with problems of procurements which have not been done properly. I was happy that we were working with the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation and provinces themselves were procuring and the Department of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation has been procuring tanks even for us before we even ordered or joined on their tender.
The advantage of this process was to manage the cost so that we do not buy water tanks for R15 000 and somebody buys it for R10 000. The price that we are receiving is the price that has been agreed across the government. I can say it here House Chair that different provinces have made very good arrangements with their municipalities so that we are not going to be sending water from the Department of Basic Education. Mostly, the Department of Basic Education and their municipalities have the arrangements of delivering water to the communities will include the schools to make sure that we can save costs if there is a tank going into an area to supply water and can also provide water for school. So, all those matters that the member has raised have been considered to make sure that we can manage the cost; ensure that there is no duplication but make sure that there is uniformity. More importantly this is to make sure that by the time we finish the process we do not come back with lots of difficulties about wrong procurement or corruption.
Question 122:
The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: Hon House Chair, some of the municipalities have complied, but the lockdown is still continuing so we haven't done a comprehensive assessment of whether every single one of them has complied. We must also remember that there are different things: there are things that they can't have complied with because part of regulation 6.7 talks about revenue collection, and part of that revenue collection includes licensing for drivers' licences, renewals and all that. Transport is only going to open that service on 1 June, so municipalities could not have complied with that part, even though that falls under revenue collection. A lot of them would have complied, but we have not received responses from every province in terms of compliance. Most provinces have said that the municipalities have complied. Thank you.