Thank you, hon Lees. Chairperson, as I tried to explain, as recently as February 22 to 24, the South African facilitation team went to Zimbabwe to meet with a number of agencies and bodies, including the human rights commission and political parties - Zanu-PF, the MDC's Tsvangirai, Mutambara and Ncube - and all of them agreed to a working timetable aimed at producing the road map to the next elections.
The next elections are viewed by all parties as a watershed election, and therefore they have to prepare for them thoroughly to ensure that there would not be any more violence and intimidation during the course of the election campaign. Hence the team had to meet with the human rights commission as well, not just the electoral commission and the political parties.
According to their work plan, the facilitation team is meant to go back to Zimbabwe by 10 March, so that they pull together this road map; it is only on the basis of that road map that the election date can be set.
I think, sometimes, either out of enthusiasm or frustration, some of the political parties in Zimbabwe even threaten to pull out of the inclusive government and that kind of stuff. The reality is that they are all committed to producing this road map towards the elections and to ensuring that the elections are indeed free and fair. I thank you.