Chairperson, hon members, Minister, Deputy Minister and guests, as the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements we visited six provinces as part of our oversight to find out the reality of service delivery on the ground, or perhaps the lack thereof.
In Khayelitsha, I had the experience of wrapping myself in a blanket and sitting on a toilet in full view of the crowd. Afterwards, I wished that I had asked the hon Steyn to take a photograph of this event. I might have made a small fortune selling it to the DA to use in their election campaign. They could have interspersed the pictures of the golden girls with ones of me sitting on the toilet, wrapped in the blanket, with the slogan: This is how we deliver to all. [Applause.] [Interjections.]
In all seriousness, it really was a humiliating experience. But I want to say that on other visits that we made, and looking at the toilet situation, we found in all the provinces that toilets were overflowing, sewage leaking out of the pipes, flush toilets with no water to flush and broken toilet bowls. It is a sad indictment of some of our delivery ...