Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to respond regarding the issues of demarcations, in relation to inner and outer boundaries in preparation for elections, in many areas we addressed. There were two late requests in the North West, Matlosana, in which the area called Molopo raised the issue that it was not happy with the merger of those municipalities. One municipality has a population of about 6 000 people. It is called a municipality because of the past. Kagisano and Molopo are very small areas. They raised these issues very late in terms of the preparations for elections.
The other area was Mangaung in the Free State where it was felt that they were not ready to be made a metro because there were areas that must be addressed. Even at that level - in August when the wards were supposed to be submitted by 1 September to the Independent Electoral Commission, the IEC, for the IEC to do its work submitted by the Demarcation Board - it became clear that it couldn't happen because that condition could not be met.
Areas that we believe are not related to local government elections, but that can destabilise if they are not handled, are cross-boundary areas or areas where people want to move from one province to the other: Ga-Mothibi, Balfour, Moutse and Matatiele. Those are the areas that we believe need to be attended to and be addressed soonest, so that when we go to the elections, there won't be challenges and problems. Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker.