Deputy Minister, the DA believes that the provision of quality health care to all South Africans must be one of our chief priorities. Sadly, this is not the case in the Free State. Earlier this year, the Free State Health department refused antiretroviral medication to new patients due to its dire financial predicament. In addition, the department halted all nonemergency surgeries as part of intense cost-cutting measures. Even as a Free State hospital turned away Aids patients in desperate need of medication, the provincial government was in the process of spending R49 million on the Mangaung African Cultural Festival. Does the Deputy Minister not agree that the continued inappropriate appointments of unqualified persons into key positions have led to this fundamental incompetence and meltdown of health care in the Free State? I thank you.