Yes, hon member, it is our intention to do all we can to try to fill the vacancies as soon as possible, especially at municipal level, starting with the City of Cape Town, if possible. [Interjections.] Everybody wants to come and work in Cape Town. [Interjections.] No! They just want to come and live in Cape Town, not to live under the present government that is governing the City of Cape Town but just to live in Cape Town for its God-given beauty. [Interjections.]
In general, hon members, part of the work that we are doing in the deployment of unemployed graduates is to meet these municipalities where there is a genuine problem in recruiting people. For instance, where we have vacancies for clerks, that work ends up being done by teachers and therefore takes up valuable teaching time. The Minister of Education collaborates with the Minister of Public Works to make sure that when we recruit people for the Extended Public Works Programme, we recruit people who have recorded skills or are trainable and could play a role in providing those administrative services, we will use those people to fill those positions. We will train them so that they become fully qualified clerks. In fact, hon member, the Minister for the Public Service and Administration and I have this as one of our key activities to embark upon, at least in the first half of the year. I think the challenge is in the public sector. But we would also like the private sector to be a bit more aggressive about how they recruit so as to create these many instant jobs you and I are looking for.