Deputy Speaker, we are currently finalising an assessment of protest marches as part of profiling the municipality in terms of the local government turnaround strategy implementation - in this regard responding to the factor of accelerating service delivery. We will accordingly produce a report by the end of November.
Guided by the trend analysis and through our own experiences as we engage with protesting communities, we have found that most of the grievances that the people raised on average relate to the following areas: electricity- related questions such as allegations of high tariffs; the long waiting time for access to and the use of electricity consumption in some areas; sanctions on this as a default mechanism for cost recovery; water supply shortcomings; housing delivery questions relating to long waiting time or allocation; administration anomalies; unfinished projects; quality leadership of municipalities; and in some instances, questionable responsiveness. Thank you very much. [Applause.]