Chairperson, perhaps, I can understand that kind of interjection because the truth sometimes bites. But I rise here to make these particular points. This is an ambitious project, which is a necessary intervention for us to make.
The Western Cape, as a province, salutes the national government. It salutes the national Minister for making this kind of intervention. Without this intervention, without this pilot project, the Western Cape remains a poorer province. We should all be grateful for the kind of intervention that the national government has made.
We have to face the challenges that we have, and these include the lessons that we learned in terms of the capacity of the city to do certain things, because this is a project that has to deliver 22 000 houses within a three- year period, and the city can only deliver less than 7 000 houses in that period. This will therefore help us to improve our capacity as a province and also as this city. As a government, there is a national programme that all of us have to follow.
It does not matter who runs the City of Cape Town, we are going to force them to do the kind of things that they are constitutionally obliged to do. They have to provide land and they have to ensure that services are put in place. I thank you, Chairperson.