Deputy Speaker, submissions of special pensions applications closed on 31 December 2010. Therefore, no applications from people applying in their own right were received since 1 April 2011.
However, a total of 1 978 applications were received after the closing date of 31 December 2010 and were declared as late applications. A total of 9 924 applications were received from the under-35 group since January 2009, ending 31 December 2010.
The number of applications processed as at the end of July 2011 is 7 185. The remaining number of 2 739 applications are still at a political verification and research level. Most of the applications received by December 2010 were incomplete, as applicants were only submitting these forms to meet the closing date deadline.
A total of 5 667 applications were received in December 2010. Only 3 440 of these applicants were from Africans that were under the age of 30 or over the age of 35, and do not qualify now. These applications came from all provinces. Thank you.