We raised with the SIU at the very outset the need to speed up the investigations. Unfortunately, as members must know, the SIU is challenged resourcewise, moneywise and in other ways. To investigate all 25 municipalities in the province is no easy task. We have done what we can to put pressure on them, but obviously as politicians there are limits to how much we can interfere in the corruption investigation processes which belong basically to these investigating agencies. It is not just the SIU that is investigating those municipalities in your province, but, also in different ways, the Hawks, the SAPS and presumably also, though I cannot prove this and I do not have the evidence before me - that is why I said "presumably also" - Sars and the Financial Intelligence Centre, etc.
However you are right, there are not enough conclusions of investigations. The process needs to be speeded up. I think we should be held to account for what we can do, and all we can do is to put pressure on the SIU. But they keep telling us that, besides the North West, they have the rest of the country to contend with, and, given the scale of the task that they have to attend to, they unfortunately cannot move faster. This is a matter that we need to address with the Department of Justice and the Ministry of Justice; their securing from National Treasury more funding and resources to ensure that the SIU is able to act faster. We are very clear, as Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, that the process needs to be accelerated.
In respect of people being deployed and the like, as the Department of Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs we are in fact going to Madibeng and other municipalities from 15 October. We are engaging with the MEC and the Premier in this regard, and you know that the situation there is extremely challenging. The political terrain is extremely complex and it is not as if we can find easy technical or governmental answers to what are fundamentally political problems, primarily of course within the majority party.