Mr Speaker, Cope welcomes the call by the Public Prosecutor, or PP, Thuli Madonsela, to boost her office's functions, resources and outreach programmes in the Limpopo province. With its 5 million people, Limpopo province has one office of the PP, in Polokwane, with a staff of 16, half of whom make up the investigation unit. Cope agrees that there are capacity problems to be addressed.
Recently, the province has been riddled by a number of allegations of corrupt activities from the premier's office, right down to suspicious tender procurements, allegedly influenced by Julius Malema and his family trust. [Interjections.] Calls were made to Thuli Madonsela's office to investigate delays in the processing of identity documents, abuse of social welfare grants, shoddy and incomplete housing and road projects, among other infringements.
With the increasing amount of work that the PP has been involved in and the media glare on its activities and pronouncements, it is the constitutional right of the people of Limpopo to be serviced optimally by this office. [Interjections.]