Chairperson, the evaluation is a very broad range. Amongst the issues that are being looked at is that we are not just trying to understand whether there are vacancies or not. Because, I could take my cousin or sister and make her a municipal manager. There is no vacancy, because there is somebody whose warm body is in that box in the organogram, but she may be totally incompetent to do the job.
And so, you need a very thoroughgoing area of work and it is just one of those things, Chair, that you must allow this work to happen. I think, periodically Parliament needs to be told that the work is underway but you are not going to ripen this apple by squeezing it.
The work must continue and I think Parliament needs to know that the work is underway. Perhaps, Minister Shiceka would be able to come at a different time and talk about what the parameters of the evaluations are, because it is being done. But getting through this entire process is fundamentally important. Of course, there is a timeline and these things must be done well in time for the 2011 elections.
So, the clock is ticking against this process and I want to assure members that it pleases government no more than it pleases the opposition benches that these things are happening and that the first level services provided by local government are as infrequent and are of as poor a quality as too many people are experiencing in South Africa.