Now it is 2014, and the people of Langa, Daveyton, the Zenzele informal settlement, Rustenburg, the Mpho Khunou informal settlement and many other settlements across the country, are still trapped in uninhabitable structures. The promise made by the ANC was just a way of playing with people's feelings. The ANC is full of promises and is excellent at shifting the goalposts. The question that I would ask the ruling party pertains to its promises that by 2009 it would have eradicated the bucket system. Amazingly, the bucket system is still in place. What happened to those promises; have they been fulfilled? No. It is clear and evident that the ANC is incapable of fulfilling its promises. [Interjections.]
People in the Eastern Cape, in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Westville, Salamntu, the Dongweni informal settlement and many others, are still using the bucket system.
The only thing the ANC has done that is of good quality is to build the Nkandla palace, while our people are homeless or staying in small, poorly built RDP houses, with disappointment.
The palace is surrounded by people living in a poor and terrible state. Some are still on the waiting list for houses, and every day they watch with envy the luxurious Nkandla. Is it the better life? Is it "a good story to tell"? [Interjections.] Ultimately, does it reach the level where tenders and the use of consultants will be eliminated?
Recently, the Lwandle communities of the Western Cape were evicted from state-owned land without any display of remorse. This community's eviction is a clear indication that people want land and housing, and they have been patiently waiting for more than 20 years, post-1994.
Land is a problem for the current government to advance spatial development and build houses for its people. A realistic, practical solution ...