Mr Chairperson, in September 2008 the Auditor-General released a report on entities connected with government employees doing business with national departments. The Auditor-General revealed that more than 2 000 government officials were involved in corruption worth more that R610 million. A year later, in August 2009, Parliament debated a motion on this very matter, urging Minister Baloyi to take disciplinary action against those officials. Another year later there was still no action. In September 2010 the DA submitted a private member's Bill to restrict officials from doing business with their own firms.
Minister, while you are still consulting, the Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille, has signed into law the Western Cape Procurement (Business Interests of Employees) Act, restricting government employees with financial interests and entities from doing business with the provincial government. Now, the question is why Minister Baloyi has still not introduced a law to prevent government employees from doing business with their own firms?