Hon Chair, I would like to thank the Minister for a very frank and honest answer to my question. But my question had two parts, hon Minister - namely the long term and the short term. What you have given us now is an exposition of your plans and interactions in the long term. But in the short term, our findings are that particularly in municipalities where strife and riots are the order of the day and of course where, in terms of my question here that referred to Operation Clean Audit, there have been no clean audits forthcoming for some time, this type of political interference is taking place at this very moment.
You have a short-term plan to deal with instances like these in the interim, whilst interventions are taking place by the MECs and whilst the NCOP is conducting visits to ascertain whether interventions are acceptable or not - whichever party it may be? Will it become clear that the strife and bad governance in that municipality is because of officials interfering with executive decisions because of their political superiority?