Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay and serious contempt reports that the Mpumalanga department of agriculture has failed to distribute 85 tractors worth an estimated R34 million;
2) further notes that the tractors donated by President Jacob Zuma were part of a R500 million government Masibuyele eMasimini programme which seeks to provide black farmers with hi-tech farming equipment;
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such a degree of irresponsible and reckless usage of public funds and undermining of the President's commitment to fight rural poverty, food insecurity and unemployment; and
4) calls on the Mpumalanga Premier and the responsible MEC to ensure that this incident is investigated and that those responsible are made to take full responsibility.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.