Mr Speaker, when the hon Minister Gordhan cracked down on the abuse of state resources yesterday, there may as well have been a backlog of Nongoma behind him, because the way in which the ruling party and its progeny, the NFP, campaigned in Nongoma over the three weeks leading up to yesterday's by-election speaks loudly of the abuse of state resources.
It also speaks about what is to come in 2014. [Interjections.] Do you want to meet me outside? [Laughter.] At the height of the by-election campaign, a storm of government activity suddenly blew into Nongoma. Millions of rand from the state coffers were spent in three wards over the span of three weeks. Government functions, complete with musicians, disc jockeys and radio personalities ...