Thank you, sir. What we see is that our people cannot differentiate between the councillors at local government level and us as Members of Parliament as well as those from the National Council of Provinces.
This means that with regard to the procedure of this Government of National Unity, it is clear that we have to communicate well with our councillors and inform them of the way in which we do our work, and also inform them at all times what the Government of National Unity is going to do, for example, what programmes are in the pipeline, even in the provinces. That creates problems because our people end up asking for services from the councillors when that is the responsibility of the provinces as well as national government, which results in disagreements.
The Integrated Development Planning programmes are also not well communicated; hence civil society does not know what should be prioritised. The municipality will be guided by them. They are submitted but only to discover that they are known by the councillor only and that civil society out there does not know about them. Hence, when you engage in conversation with them they will tell you that their problem is with regard to water. That is not known by everybody. I assume this is a major problem that we are facing with regard to our councillors. Thank you.]