Deputy Chairperson, I would like to hear the response of the hon Minister in the light of the following facts. Firstly, the City of Cape Town has a clear policy forbidding officials from cutting off water to residential properties; secondly, the City of Cape Town has the largest free water allocation for the poor in the whole of South Africa; thirdly, the City of Cape Town's records show that it logged and responded to all 90 of the complaints of water failure it received over the past three months from the Mitchells Plain area; and further, there is no hard evidence of residents being deliberately left without water for extended periods.
What action has the Minister taken in response to the sworn affidavits by Mitchells Plain residents? What action has the Minister taken regarding the statements made by Mitchells Plain residents that are recorded in the paper and interviews by the media that ANC activists actually asked them to shut off their water at the stopcock ahead of the Minister's visit to the area in order to mislead him about water cuts? This was reported in the paper and I want to ask the Minister to respond to that, please.