Chairperson, as part of the human settlement strategy we urge provinces and municipalities to ensure that when they do housing allocation for new projects they should also take into account the people who live in informal settlements and the backyard dwellers. That would help them not to allocate houses to people who are in informal settlements only and ignore the backyard dwellers. If they did so, it would mean they were telling people that they must go and occupy land before they are given a house.
So, as we are getting on with the N2 gateway project, which is the pilot project, there are 70% of people who are already staying there, and 30% will be allocated to the backyard dwellers. This would help those people to benefit from projects that government is giving to our people so that we don't have a separate system.
We encourage provinces - and this is just a policy now that we are still piloting - to have this kind of mind-set so that all the new projects benefit both the backyard dwellers and those who are in the informal settlements.