Speaker, I should like to thank the hon Deputy President for the response.
The issue that I would like to focus on first is the protection of land rights for women in rural areas. As you know, women are at the forefront of food security in rural areas. Are there any measures relating to this?
Second is the issue of enhancing rural people's asset base by ensuring that people who own land also have rights over the mineral resources. The current situation is that there is no obligation in regard to the landowner's rights on that land at the same time. Therefore investors can come in and invest in the mineral resources without having any obligation to get into a partnership or an investment deal with the landowner.
Last is the question of paralegal institutions of credit for rural areas. Here, for instance, I would like to refer to a case that we had yesterday involving a report from the Small Enterprise Finance Agency, Sefa. Out of 210 disbursements made by them, 90 went to Gauteng, seven to the Eastern Cape, four to KwaZulu-Natal and six to Limpopo. Those are rural areas. There is no access for them. That is really the issue that I would like to raise. Thank you.