Mr Speaker, the province of Limpopo finds itself in a dire situation. It is now May, five months into the school year, and school textbooks have yet to be delivered to schools up and down the province. Learners are being denied their constitutional right to an education by a corrupt and a broken provincial government.
There are hospitals in that province that have no soap, no gloves, no cleaning materials; hospitals where women have to give birth in dirty beds. There isn't enough food for patients. There are not enough nurses to service the hundreds and hundreds of patients who stream through the hospital doors on a daily basis. Again, the people of the province are being failed by an administration that is corrupt and that is broken.
It is clear for all of South Africa to see that Limpopo is now a failed province, failed by an ineffective government and failed by a weak premier. I am going to ask the President to answer a straight question with a straight answer. [Laughter.] Does he agree that the time has come for the fiddling while Rome is burning to come to an end; and for the Premier of Limpopo, Mr Cassel Mathale, to do the right thing and resign? Thank you very much. [Applause.]