d) What was the role of Nurcha, were they not owned by government? How many contractors did they finance in this area? Did they have offices in the Eastern Cape region? What about the Ecdc contractor funds where bill of quantities of contractors were rejected as underpriced by Ecdc accredited quantity surveyors and they were not assisting contractors to price according to them? Why were the accredited Quantity Surveyors not calculating for every contractor that would need Ecdc funds so that the contractors submit would submit well calculated documents? Why were contractors not give start up capital to kick start projects for initial material and initial salaries because that was where contractors suffered. They were saying all contractors that need funds to do their work must be funded through a government led scheme like contractor bank e.g. the land bank for farmers .Contractors were not paid and if they had project start up funds and used their appointment letters and orders to source government finance, things would have been better but they insisted that they needed a political programme to this effect.