Madam Deputy Speaker, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the IFP:
That the House -
1) debates service delivery protests taking place in various municipalities around the country. There are 51 and the number is rising according to government's response to an earlier IFP question. It is the highest number since the new local government system was established in 2000;
2) also debates government's failure over a number of years to recognise and respond to the formative causes of the crisis we are facing; and
3) discusses the validity of government's spin doctoring and its refusal, in public at least, to recognise that there is indeed a crisis in local government.