Hon Chairperson, hon Ministers and Deputy Ministers, and hon members, last year, the Fourth Democratic Parliament, which was aptly characterised as an activist Parliament, took the correct decision to establish an Ad hoc Committee on Co-ordinated Oversight on Service Delivery. The establishment of this committee was intended at finding empirical evidence on the underlying reasons for the so-called service delivery protests, which engulfed our municipalities in South Africa. The committee was ushered in under the theme: Working together to ensure the delivery of quality services to the communities.
Ye ke tabataba e swanet?ego, e bile tshepedi?ong kamoka, komiti ye ya nakwana e be e nolofat?a t?homi?ano magareng ga dikgoro t?a mmu?o wa boset?haba, dikgoro t?a diprofense le ditirelo t?a tshepedi?o go swana le Eskom le Sassa magareng ga t?e dingwe. Se se bohlokwa kudu ke gore, komiti ye e ?omi?ana le dikomiti t?a diprofense go lekola gore ditirelo di a abja, gammogo le bomasepala le set?haba. Tsenelelano ye e bont?hit?e go ba le mohola go netefat?eng gore mahlakore kamoka a set?haba a lemoga bohlokwa bja t?homi?anommogo go potlaki?a kabo ya ditirelo.
Ka ntle ga dikatlego go bont?i bja dimasepala, go nale ditlhotlo t?e nt?i t?e di t?welelago t?eo di t?welago pele go hlori?a kudukudu dimasepala. Le ge go le bjalo, ditlhotlo di amana gape le tshepedi?o kamoka ya mmu?o mabapi le thekgo ya boset?haba le diprofense go dimasepala. Tlhotlo ya ka mehla yeo e hlagi?it?wego ka maatla ke set?haba, e bile hlokego ya karabo ya mmu?o go matshwenyego ao a hlagi?it?wego ke maloko a set?haba. Dit?haba di belaela gore, le ge go hlagi?it?we matshwenyego ka mangwalo ao a balegago le dimemorantamo, matshwenyego a bona ga se a rarollwe. (Translation of Sepedi paragraphs follows.)
[In the whole process the ad hoc committee made it easier for the national government, provincial government, Eskom and Sassa to work co-operatively. This ad hoc committee works co-operatively with provincial committees, municipalities and the public to ensure service delivery. This integration has made the public aware of the importance of co-operation in speeding up service delivery.
Municipalities are encountering many challenges, including lack of adequate support by the national and provincial government. The main challenge raised by the public is lack of response by government to their concerns. The public is concerned that even after taking effort to raise their concerns in written form and in the form of memoranda they are still not attended to.]
The country witnessed intense community struggles, clashes with the police and the destruction of municipal buildings and houses of individual councillors. As Parliament, we need to condemn this behaviour; we need to underscore the fact that local government is at the coalface of service delivery. As such, frustrations are directed at them individually and to the community infrastructure. This is untenable and must come to an end.
There are systematic, structural and government or community interface problems crippling municipalities. Based on evidence, challenges which beset municipalities are not the functional areas of municipalities but provincial government and national imperatives. A thorny issue of incomplete houses is a provincial government competence. Another challenge, that of unemployment and lack of skills, is a structural challenge, which government in general has to respond to urgently.
A pressing challenge concerns the relationship of accountability between ward councillors and ward committees on the one hand and communities on the other. Councillors are accused of lack of responsiveness as well as the inability to champion community interest in council, and thus accountability to the people.
Go nale tlhotlo e nngwe e bohlokwa e lego hlokego ya hlokomelo ya diprot?eke le tshenyo ya neo t?a melao ya taolo ya phepokgolego [supply chain management regulations]. Mathata a mant?i ke diprot?eke t?eo di tloget?wego di sa fela mola 100% ya t?helete e lefilwe.
Borakontraka bao ba nago le molato, ba swanet?e go ngwadi?wa go lenaneo la difiwa la Letlotlo la Bo?et?haba la basenyi go ba thibela go hwet?a mo?omo o mongwe mmu?ong. Go swana le ba?omedi bao ba itokollago mo?omong ka mait?hirelet?o goba ka lebaka la dinyaki?i?o t?eo di dirwago kgahlanong le bona, le bona ba swanet?e ba ngwadi?we ke kgoro ya Pu?otiri?ano le Merero ya Set?o, CoGTA, go ba thibela gore ba se hwet?e mo?omo lefelong le lengwe ka ntle go sephetho sa dinyaki?i?o, ba na le molato wa go jabet?a goba boradia, gape ba swanet?e go ngwadi?wa lenaeong la CoGTA go thibela phatlalalo ya basenyi go tloga go masepala o mongwe go ya go o mongwe.
Go nale mengwako e ment?i ya Lenaneo la Kagoleswa le T?wet?opele, RDP, yeo e sa fet?wago dikarolong t?e nt?i t?a naga, go fa mohlala, kua Nokeng t?a Taemane go la Gauteng. Tlhohlo ye ke se?upo sa gore Kgoro ya Bodulo bja Batho e nepile ge e nyaki?i?a dithentara le go thuba mengwako yeo e senyegilego ka lebaka la bofokodi bja mo?omo wa baagi. Komiti ya Nakwana e swanet?e go thekga lenaneo le go pho?olla bothata bjo bo lego gona gona bjale.
Tlhotlo ye nngwe ye thata yeo e nyakago ?edi ya mmu?o ke pelaelo\ ya gore dikgoro ga di ye dikopanong t?a diIDP goba ba romela ba?omedi ba maemo a tlase bao ba ka se kgonego go t?ea diphetho. Mokgwa wo o nyaka hlokomelo ya t?hoganet?o go netefat?a gore mmu?o o ineet?e go tsela ya mohlakanela ya thlabollo.
Diprofenseng t?e dingwe go nale maano a thomilwego go netefat?a gore diMEC di amega thwii lenaneong la kgotlaganyo ya diIDP, gagolo kua KwaZulu-Natal. Se se laola gabotse Mahlomo a Dikamano t?a ka gare t?a mmu?o... [T?hwahlelo.] [Nako e fedile.] [Legoswi.] Ke a leboga. (Translation of Sepedi paragraphs follows.)
[Another pressing challenge is a lack of projects monitoring and the contravention of supply chain management regulations. Many problems are caused by incomplete projects that have already been paid for 100%.
The contractors who are found guilty should be blacklisted at the offenders' programme in the National Treasury to make it impossible for them to get another job offer from the government. The Department of Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, must also blacklist employees who commit fraud and resign to protect themselves or to avoid investigations against them. This should be done to prevent them to get another job offer before the completion of investigations and to stop the spread of corruption from one municipality to another.
There are many houses in the Reconstruction and Development Programme, RDP, that are still incomplete in many parts of the country, for example, Nokeng tsa Taemane in Gauteng. This proves that the Department of Human Settlements is right in investigating tenders and demolishing poorly constructed houses due to poor workmanship. The ad hoc committee must support this programme to solve the existing problem.
The fact that government departments do not attend integrated development planning, IDP, meetings and are also delegating junior staff members who cannot take decisions should be attended to. This matter needs urgent attention to ensure that the government is committed to integrated development.
There are plans in place in other provinces like Kwazulu-Natal to ensure that the Members of the Executive Council, MECs, are fully involved in the IDP programme. This controls effectively foundations of internal relations in government ... Thank you. [Interjections.] [Time expired.] [Applause.]]