Thank you, sir. This forms Programme 3 of Mineral Resources' budget summary. Minerals regulation forms part of a very important area of work in implementation within the public services' mineral resources, including the implementation of relevant transformation policies to date in an effort to keep up with the desperate needs of our small mining communities that have yet to see significant proceeds and benefits in terms of an economically developmental state for historically disadvantaged South Africans.
Recognising what the Minister has already said, progress in the development of an electronic licensing system, which is said to be the resource administration system, will certainly go a long way in proving government's technological efforts to ensure that targets are met timeously.
We hope to see these changes, so that we in the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources can see the difference in trying to make South Africans proud through the achievements of mining in a developmental democratic South Africa. I support Budget Vote 32: Mineral Resources. I thank you, Chair. [Applause.]