Chairperson, I rise on behalf of Cope to give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes the urgent necessity for the Department of Public Works to investigate and report on the disappearance from duty of two officials following a revelation that they had been unlawfully issuing school transport contracts under a tree;
2) acknowledges the serious negative effect that this has had on learners living on farms in the affected rural areas; and
(3) recognises the necessity for the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and other relevant committees to pursue this matter and for the Minister of Public Works to take steps to locate the offenders and to lay charges against them.