Thank you, hon Deputy Speaker.
Dankie vir die antwoord, agb Minister. Ek wil egter vra watter riglyne u departement het om seker te maak dat alle werkloses in die gemeenskap 'n gelyke kans het om werk te kry in die verskillende werkskeppingsprogramme. Met ons oorsigbesoek in die Wes-Kaap was munisipaliteite se antwoord hierop dat 'n databasis bygehou word en die rekenaar aangewend word om name te trek.
Dit wil s dat raadslede en politieke partye geensins betrokke is by die proses nie. Slegs in een geval het die burgemeester duidelik laat blyk dat hy hom nie laat voorskryf nie. Hulle doen aanstellings soos hulle voel.
My vraag aan die departement is dus: Watter vaste riglyne is daar om te sorg dat die belastingbetaler se geld aangewend word om die werkloses op 'n gelyke basis te bereik en dat partylidmaatskap nie 'n rol speel nie. Ek dank u. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Thank you for the answer, hon Minister. However, I would like to ask what guidelines you department has in place to ensure that all unemployed people in the community have an equal chance to obtain work in the various job creation programmes. During our oversight visit in the Western Cape, the answer of municipalities to this question was that a data base is kept and that a computer is employed to draw names.
That is to say that councillors and political parties are in no way involved in the process. In only one case did the mayor make it clear that he would not be dictated to. They make appointments as they feel they should.
Accordingly, my question to the department is: What fixed guidelines are in place to ensure that the taxpayer's money is applied in such a way as to reach the unemployed on an equal basis and to ensure that party membership does not play any role. I thank you.]