Hon President, in the progress report addressed to you in respect of the Framework Agreement with regard to measures undertaken to improve infrastructure investment, the following statement was made:
The government has recognised that corruption reduces the impact of public programmes, contributes to higher than necessary costs and may also result in poor quality work, which requires construction to be redone.
All parties are committed to rooting out corruption. My question to you, Mr President, is that contracts for infrastructure work in Limpopo were granted to companies of Mr Julius Malema, where he is a director, and where work done by him will have to be redone owing to the collapse of a bridge. Will the increased costs incurred be investigated by the government? If not, why not? And if so, when?
And I want to know whether this company owes money to any other company. Also, there are many default companies that will be placed on the tender register to disqualify them from future tenders, so will such companies be required to pay damages?
It is simply not good enough to say that we must bring the evidence to light, because it is the government's responsibility to investigate, since it is the government that awarded the contracts. [Interjections.] Thank you. [Applause.]