Chairperson, of 31 municipalities, there was one protest in the Cape Town metro that was organised by the ANC, but there were spontaneous instances of unrest because of poor service delivery in the 30 ANC-controlled municipalities. Our leader and a number of us visited almost all these hot spots, and we could see that there was no service delivery. It is clear to us that the ANC is not ready to govern in those municipalities.
Mr Minister, seeing that a municipality needs skilled and experienced officials to deliver services, would you agree - and give out this message - that the ANC must start to appoint people on merit and not employ cadres and, in some instances, have positions vacant for long periods because there is no cadre available? [Applause.]