Department of Social Development have been filled.

And we, again, further, looking forward to ensure that all other positions are filled. But we also raised and we need to impress this particular point about the fact that they need to be capacitated and capacity development need to happen so that the national government, at a time that they exit the North West province, they leave a very strong legacy in terms of service delivery and accountability. And that can only be achieved if that particular area is given the necessary attention; and we welcome that.

We also welcome the fact that the national government is prioritising the promulgation of the new legislation that will ensure that interventions are done in a consistent, coherent and balanced way, and there is a modality that government follows in cases that there is an invocation of section 100 in all the provinces. And that will necessarily apply in respect of municipalities where in which section 139 interventions are invoked by the provincial government. This, in our view, we

think it will go a long way in terms of dealing with those particular issues.

Lastly, Chairperson, I want to talk to how we did our work as a committee. We were robust, we were clear in terms of our articulations, we were exercising independence and we were looking at issues, not from party political point of view, but as true representatives of this particular House, we worked in unison; and I think in the main we agreed with the thrust of this report and we agreed that the challenges that are facing the North West province need to be dealt with appropriately; and we all agreed in unison that we needed to extricate the North West province from the quagmire that it was finding itself in; and this, we agreed as political parties but I don't know what has happened, at the time that we adopted the report some political parties summersaulted.

I don't know what has happened when we are debating here; is it because now we are going to the Local Government Elections? Because in the main, political parties are now showing their colours, they pander into political populism, they attack the report, they direct vitriolic attacks to all the good work that we have secured; and I don't think that this is a good

spirit in which we must attend to the issues that are facing us.

But that will not deter us, we will move forward and we are grateful of the strides that the national government has made under Dr Nkosazana Zuma. Throughout the process the Inter-Ministerial Task Team under her leadership was able to intervene, was able to help the committee, was able to solve whatever the issues that were facing us and in that sense we really appreciate the contribution that they made, to arrive at a point where we submitted a report before this particular House.

But going forward, hon Chairperson, I think what has happened in the North West should be a lesson for the country. It should be something that must never happen again, it must be something that must be avoided, that a provincial government acted in the way that the provincial government of the North West acted; we don't need that.

Our people are yearning for service delivery, our people are yearning for better and quality education, they are yearning for healthcare facilities, they are yearning for road infrastructure and this is what the government, at all

material times, must do, to ensure that whatever it does, it doesn't plunder the resources of the state, it doesn't pillage what is not belonging to them and those who are entrusted with the leadership responsibilities must act in a way that will emulate two regions that we visited in the course of our oversight work, we went to the Dr Kenneth Kaunda region and today we all paying homage to Dr Kenneth Kaunda for the indelible contribution that he made in bringing about freedom, not only to