Chairperson, thanks to the hon Tau for the question. In responding to the question, I want to say that we do have the support that we give to emerging contractors. The National Urban Reconstruction and Housing Agency, Nurcha, and the National Housing Finance Corporation, NHFC, which are housing support institutions, are in place to assist those emerging contractors. If emerging contractors are building gap housing, they can ask for assistance from the NHFC.
In addition to that, we have the Youth Build programme and the Women Build programme. In the Northern Cape, women emerging contractors are building 100 units in the China Square area. Youth emerging contractors are building 15 units in Upington. This is the kind of assistance that we are trying to give.
At the same time, we have asked - because of the new mandate of social amenities as far as human settlement is concerned - that all provinces must have emerging contractor conferences to ensure that people are aligned with the new ethos in terms of human settlements. We are going to have a national human settlement emerging contractor conference to ensure that we give better assistance in accordance with the new mandate of the department.
But we want to cite the issue of shoddy work done by some emerging contractors - not all, but some. In this situation, government does not get value for money. This is not the route we want to take. We will not continue engaging with contractors that do not give us value for money in building the quality housing units we want.