- of course the Constitution provides for their oversight,

especially by the national government provides a rare opportunity that we can agree on either weaning off or conditional hand over.

Whereas section 100 intervention was necessary and doing well even in the face of some challenges, it would be not in the interest and spirit of the Constitution to seek to permanentise it particularly over the present electoral period of the sixth North West provincial administration. It is overshadowing the sixth North West provincial administration even when it is no longer for redress especially when it is only for sustainability of what has been achieved because such sustainability should help in the institutionalisation of capacity and transfer responsibilities and build internal or localised capabilities.

Hon Chair, it would be an error, a serious constitutional omission not to seek to enable the province to manage its affairs with national government playing oversight. The intervention should be supported even with allocation of funds so that the intervention itself should not only depend and use resources made available for services. This is a request that could be made to financial and fiscal commission established through the Financial and Fiscal Commission Act, Act 99 of

1997, flowing from section 214 of the Constitution to provide for proactive, expert and independent advice on promoting a sustainable and equitable intergovernmental fiscal system, IGFR, system, through evidence-based policy analysis to ensure the realisation of our constitutional values that any continued and permanentised intervention wouldundermine.

The discussion paper on the proposed principles and objectives of the local government equitable share formula may need to be taken to logical conclusion to give relevancy to the intended redress efforts on the municipalities. Importantly, challenges enveloping the municipalities are being responded to and IGFR multidisciplinary teams made up of national and provincial government departments and other state agencies have put in place progressive plan of action [Time expired.] Thank you very much, hon Chair.

Mr D R RYDER: Mr Chairperson, as I worked through this report, I thought back on the long hours of meetings and the substantial commitment of time and resources that each member of this committee, and the support staff, have put in to the process since we started. I considered the long hours, and felt decidedly underwhelmed by what we have achieved todate.

Hon Dodovu's introduction today also voiced the frustration

with the slow progress that we have made.

I went back into the Parliamentary Monitoring Group, PMG, records of our meetings - and perhaps let me acknowledge the PMG and their excellent work done in service of democracy - but while going through the records and discussing them with colleagues, the realisation dawned that we were an ad-hoc committee without clear direction. We have a star studded cast, but there is no plot.

This committee has picked up the reins from our predecessors in the Fifth Parliament, without adequately reviewing our purpose or our focus. We jumped on the bus and forged ahead without a clear destination in mind. The result has been hours of review of process, without a scorecard to mark it by or a goal-line in sight.

Hon Visser was quite right in her speech earlier. The key performance areas and more specifically key performance indicators of the administrators need to be set, with the inputs of our