Mr Speaker, thank you, and thank you, hon Deputy President, for the response and the initiatives that are being taken. As the IFP, we welcome this announcement, but yet I think there are unintended consequences that may arise.
We can put in more money and more tablets to protect the vulnerable, but we find reports such as:
When thieves broke into Nonhlahla's home they took her most valuable possessions, her antiretrovirals, which in urban legend are key ingredients in a narcotic called "whoonga".
Mr Deputy President, we know that it is a myth that ARVs are used to produce "whoonga", but yet drug dealers continue to perpetuate this myth and vulnerable people are being robbed. Criminals attack people who go to clinics to collect "whoonga". There have been serial murders in KwaZulu- Natal, where people have been killed for ARVs. I would like to know, amongst other things, what would government do to ensure that these people who deserve the treatment are actually protected from these criminals and drug lords? [Time expired.]