Deputy Speaker, let me just perhaps make a contribution of free advice to the hon Steenhuisen. One of the basic skills in advocacy is sometimes to understate one's case. Sometimes it takes one a whole lot further. The hon Steenhuisen has stated his case in very wide, and I think ultimately, quite empty terms.
Yes, we understand that poor financial systems create an environment that is conducive to corruption. That is a very different thing to saying that there is a causal link, in the sense that every time there is a qualification or a disclaimer that equates to corruption or some form of criminal activity. That, in fact, is a very dangerous way to put the question, because it is a fundamental misstatement of what auditing is all about.
Why is it dangerous? It is dangerous because, on the one hand, a municipality can have an unqualified audit, and yet there can be the most terrible corruption and criminal activity going on. It is exactly because an audit is not meant - unless it is a forensic audit - to find criminal activity. So, if you say that because an audit is unqualified we can relax, that is a very dangerous thing.
Conversely, there could be a whole host of reasons why a municipality or any other institution gets a qualification or a disclaimer. It might have nothing to do with criminal activity. Then to cast aspersions on officials who might be honest and well meaning but simply do not have the capacity, do not have the resources to do their work, I think does a grave disservice to a very serious issue.
On the question of the Anti-Corruption Inspectorate, I think we have addressed that matter in another question. We have explained that in terms of the Constitution and the law that unit cannot have investigating powers in the way that the police do. For that reason, the department is engaged with the Hawks and the Special Investigating Unit, and has entered into agreements with those institutions in terms of which this anticorruption body will co-operate with that. I can provide the hon member with more a detailed response at a later stage as to the successes achieved. [Time expired.] [Applause.]