Hon Chair, the hon Swathe has referred to this amount of money, and has said that it would mainly go to salaries. Actually, we got R289 million, I think. Of that R289 million, R250 million will go to service delivery. That is what the hon chair of the portfolio committee is asking. I am happy that he has asked this question, so that I can explain the points further.
Now, of the R250 million that he has referred to here, R90 million will go to fencing, for ploughing and grazing land, across the country, or rather, in the nine provinces. So that is service delivery, in our view, and, in agreement with the provinces, that money will be used to create jobs. But there will also be an element of quality control, for which we have an agreement with the Ministry of Public Works, so that we can make use of the Independent Development Trust. Of course, in Mpumalanga we are using their trust. There is a trading trust in Mpumalanga, where we have already provided, between August and now, 260km of fence. In KwaZulu-Natal we are using Ithala. So we are creating jobs through that. In the Eastern Cape we are negotiating to use Asgisa EC to ensure that the quality of the fence that we are erecting is good. So this is what is going to happen all over the place in terms of that.
With regard to the remaining R160 million, we are working with Fort Hare University, which is helping us in doing other things. Amongst these other things, we want to develop an agripark, particularly in Mpumalanga, because there is plenty of water in Mpumalanga. We have discussed the possibility of getting land there with the Premier a couple of weeks ago. We will get land, actually, to create an irrigation facility, and then we can start producing vegetables there. But we also want to encourage, with that same money, food gardens, so that people can sell there. We want to create a market through the agripark, as well as a processing plant, so that we can process vegetables into vegetable soup. So we are going to create social infrastructure.
We are also intervening in health facilities. If we get to a rural area where there are no clinics, or the mobile clinics come once a week or so, or don't come as often as they should, this relates to the problem of the roads infrastructure. We are intervening there. So that money is going to go to food gardens, to roads, to fencing gardens - because this we must do - and to water.
The hon Minister for Agriculture has really done government a lot of good. Consider, for example, the refining of water in places such as Masha, where you have water constraints, not just because water is scarce, but because of the quality of the water. So the Minister has come in, but the Minister of Communications also has come in, in relation to the e-centres to follow. The Minister of Energy is coming in for electrification in all these places. So we are not working in terms of creating this infrastructure ourselves. We create opportunities for other departments to come in and do the work themselves.
The R160 million will certainly be spread a little wider than the one place, that is Masha, but across the provinces. Also, we will initiate, and the other departments will come in and complete the job, whether it concerns health facilities, or schools, or other things. We will do that in Mpumalanga, because the Department of Education may not be ready yet, but we are ready to assist there in Mpumalanga. There is one school where children from seven grades have to study in one room, and we have to intervene there.
So the money is not going to go to salaries. It is not correct to say so. Thank you. [Applause.]
Vote No 28 - Minerals and Energy - put.
Vote No 29 - Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs - put.