Sihlalo, ndiyavelana noKgo?i. [Chair, I feel pity for Kgoshi.] We have been having meetings to deal with the problems of accounting and dealing with the problems of the Auditor-General in the department. I could come here, Kgoshi, and give you a very beautiful picture to make you happy, but come next year, the problem will not be solved. It's a problem that has been there for a long time. Unfortunately, there is also a problem of capacity, which we are also dealing with. I am very sorry that I am giving you bad news, but I also have to be honest rather than say things that I know are not possible. You know the seriousness of lying to Parliament. That would be very serious. [Laughter.] I don't want to come and tell you lies. It's something I would like to avoid. Besides that, my nature, as Ngconde was telling me, does not allow me to lie.
I am saying that these are the problems. For instance, we are busy now with a system to have a proper system of dealing with what we call the reconstruction of our financial systems, especially at the logistics level, but even with that, we gave it to our guys; it took them a year. When they were supposed to report to us, we found that what they were reporting to us was not as good as we thought it was.
Now we had to go out and say that we should get outside assistance. So, Kgoshi, unfortunately, we would be very happy to give you good news and say there will be no audit qualifications but the truth of the matter, from what we can see, is that unless something dramatic happens, we are going to take longer than we would like to sort out the issue of audit qualifications in the department.