Thank you, hon member Van Lingen, for the question. Our response is as follows.
No, the national department has not conducted an on-site audit of resident owners in any of the provinces since the housing beneficiary occupancy audit, initiated in 2008. The study initiated in 2008 covered 262 668 housing units, representing 10% of all housing units completed between April 1994 and June 2008, across seven of the nine provinces. All district municipalities were represented.
Although the study needed to cover 262 668 - that is 10% - no suitable bids were received from the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape. The sample of these two provinces, representing together 55 590 of the total of 262 668, was scheduled to be conducted during the 2010-11 financial year, but due to insufficient funding could not proceed.
So, in terms of the findings, 53% of the occupants are approved beneficiaries. For example, it was 68,9% in Gauteng, 47,4% in the Western Cape, 59,7% in KwaZulu-Natal and 60,2% in the Free State. This means that the occupant's identity number and name are registered on the housing subsidy system as those of an approved beneficiary who received the housing subsidy from the government.
Of the approved beneficiaries, 34% are occupying the houses allocated to them in terms of the housing subsidy scheme, which is, therefore, a perfect match. This means that since being allocated a house, these beneficiaries have never relocated or given their houses to their relatives or children. So, they are still the same people who were living in those houses. The balance, 19% of the occupants, cannot be matched with the houses approved to be allocated to them in the housing subsidy scheme. Therefore, the variation there is 19%. I thank you.