... hon Jeff Radebe and the hon Deputy Minister Buti Manamela have not come to address the portfolio committee on their plans. Instead, they sent officials who could not answer some of the questions we wanted answered at the portfolio committee level.
The monitoring and performance of both the Minister and Deputy Minister in this department requires to be looked at because it is not satisfactory. The executive should at all times be available for parliamentary oversight, even when they currently hold the parliamentary majority.
The core function of this department is to monitor the performance of individuals and the national, provincial and municipal government. However, the output is not satisfactory. Provincial and municipal governments are not carrying out their duties. Procurement processes in these two spheres are either outrageous or just a method of securing tenders for certain individuals whose output is not inspected. Roads are left unfinished, subjecting the lives of our poor people to more difficulties.
Umzekelo wale nto ndiyithethayo ziindlela zelali zakuCofimvaba apho abantu basathwalwa ngeeleli ukusiwa ezibhedlele nasemangcwabeni. [An example of what I'm talking about is the roads of the villages in Cofimvaba where patients and corpses are carried on ladders to hospitals and graveyards.]
Make no mistake, all these roads were at some point ... [Interjections.] ... under construction, but nobody cares about what the money was used for. [Interjections.]