Madam Speaker, could the Minister explain why a total moratorium has been placed on the taking on of reservists, with no date announced for its lifting? Could the Minister also tell us whether the same moratorium relates to patrollers? We have a number of citizens offering their services to SAPS, expecting no payment at all, and yet we have this huge blockage that has developed.
Certainly, I have heard that patrollers, while not asking for salaries, are given certain food parcels as a sort of gift for doing the work that they do. It is of great concern to citizens who are proffering their services who are turned away. I would like to know when this turning-away process is going to stop. Also, why is it that you are even considering allowing reservists without driving licences to be admitted through the back door, as it were, into SAPS when we already have such a huge problem with SAPS members who do not have driving licences, even today?