Chair, as I have indicated, additional measures have been put in place for all of us who are in this House, our councillors, traditional authorities and leaders, or anybody within a particular body, to enquire on a continuous basis from Sassa.
Firstly, if by any chance any one of our members of society may not have received a letter or may not have an address, an enquiry can be made through the councillor, a traditional leader and through whoever to find out from the offices of Sassa whether such a letter was released. This is allowed. We are aware and we also understand the situation under which our people function or live. Some of them do not have addresses. But those are some of the measures that we think will help us if all of us act and help those who do not have postal addresses. You will be informed in this regard just by enquiring.
Secondly, when it comes to the second stage, where a particular member may have been left out or removed from the system, there is an appeals process that allows any member of society to still come to Sassa and report that they have been removed from the system and that they need to be reinstated. When such an application is made, the entire amount that remains behind is paid over to the particular person upon reinstatement because this would be correcting what had gone wrong. It could be an administrative process or something, but such cases are indeed very few.
The influx that we see from our people approaching Sassa just to enquire is indicative of the fact that they accept and know now that there is a review that all of us need to do. We had cases where people were reinstated into the system, hon member. Thank you very much.
Measures to assist small and emerging contractors in Northern Cape through programme of human settlements and plans to assist contractors
53. Mr R J Tau (ANC) asked the Minister of Human Settlements:
Whether his department has any measures in place to assist small and emerging contractors through his department's programme of human settlements in the construction of houses in the Northern Cape; if not, what plans does his department have to assist these contractors; if so, what measures? CO269E