Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to thank the hon members for supporting the Bill. By the way, I have no problem with the DA, because they say that the Bill is in line with their policy, but they will not support the Bill. [Laughter.] It is not clear what they really want.
They go on to say that in the Western Cape they have already started implementing some aspects of the Bill. That is what the hon Trollip said. We understand that and we agree because that is the truth - they have started doing that. However, what he wants to do is to claim that the Western Cape has led us in this direction, which is actually not the point here. The point is that we want to transform the South African society.
We thank the hon Madisha for the points he made, particularly the emphasis that he laid on areas of interest that will follow with regard to oversight. Thank you very much for that.
We accept the interesting comments made by hon Cebekhulu, and we thank him very much for that. But the hon members before me have already made comments concerning the centralisation of power, hon Groenewald.
You know, the way the Bill is structured, it is a Bill of the whole government and not just a national Bill - it is a Bill of the whole government.
Secondly, at the national level, we have taken the responsibility of ensuring that we help build capacity, both at provincial and municipal levels. We are already working with provinces, helping them to develop legislation that is in line with the context of this Bill. We are also helping some municipalities developing their bylaws; we are actually working on that.
We do admit that we do not have the capacity that is required in terms of the planners that would be required to implement the Bill, but we are working together and we can achieve that, because it is not just national government, but all of us. We have to build the capacity that is required to do this.
We thank you very much, hon Deputy Speaker, for supporting the Bill and I hope that the DA will change its mind during the next 20 seconds. [Laughter.]
Debate concluded.
Bill read a second time (Democratic Alliance, Independent Democrats, Freedom Front Plus, Congress of the People, African Christian Democratic Party and United Christian Democratic Party dissenting).