Hon member, I am not going to answer you on how and where people relieve themselves ... [Laughter.] ... because that is a very private matter. [Laughter.]]
I agree with you. It will be good if these two were going together; the clean audit and proper performance, what has been done to spend our money. That's a good thing and this is what we are trying to align as we try to do everything to co-ordinate and monitor.
The performance monitoring mechanism and evaluation will partly deal with that issue to look at exactly what happened as you disbursed the money.
At times somebody could make a false report. One accountant told me a story that I could not forget, when he said that at times people could make numbers talk. I did not understand what he meant. It means, as you made the example, that the audit can be clean but the results may not reflect that. So, we do need to align that kind of work. I thank you. [Applause.]
Countries identified as high potential trading partners and details relating thereto
18. Mr M G P Lekota (Cope) asked the President of the Republic:
(a) Which (i) countries have been identified as high potential trading partners and (ii) of these countries have been visited by him accompanied by a delegation of Ministers and business people, (b) what was the selection criteria for the business delegations to each of these countries, (c) what benefits were derived in terms of job creation and poverty alleviation and (d) what was the total expenditure to the state of these official visits?