Thank you very much, Speaker. I also thank the Minister for the response. We appreciate the complexity of the situation in the Department of Home Affairs.
My follow-up question, Minister, is this. I did not quite understand how many applications for permanent residence currently constitute the backlog that you spoke about, which is to be cleared in December.
Secondly, we also know that associated with the applications for permanent residence has been the issue of corruption or criminal activity, where people "marry" using the names of South Africans who do not know that their names are being used for them to marry. I just want to understand whether the system is able to weed out some of those corrupt practices that have occurred. I want to know if you are the ones who adjudicate on that and whether any action has been taken with regard to the people who are complicit in that.