Hon Deputy Speaker, the current housing infrastructure in Gauteng has sufficient capacity to provide water and sewerage to three million people. Currently we have 10 million residents living in the Gauteng area.
The infrastructure is clearly incapable of supporting and sustaining such a large resident base, and must be upgraded and expanded as a matter of urgency if we are to avoid the social and health implications that normally surround such areas of infrastructure.
The IFP therefore urges the Minister of Human Settlements and his department to regard this matter as critical and to attend to its resolution as a matter of the highest priority. I thank you.