On the provision of access to clean water, for example, it pointed out that a percentage of households with improved source of water increased by less than 4% points between 2002 and 2019. The increases were mostly notable in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Despite these notable improvements, access to water actually declines in five provinces between 2002 and 2019. The North West is amongst those provinces, where in such areas such as Madibeng, there continues to be water supply challenges.

The report also shows draws attention to the fact that approximately one quarter of households consisted of a single person, while three fifths had fewer than four members. The North West has the highest incidents of single person household, while households which contained more than six members were most common in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mpumalanga. This must highlight that the dynamics of service delivery differ across provinces and it is the responsibility of provincial and local governments to tackle these challenges.

The central point from the General Communist Secretary is that, while there have been great strides made in service delivery over the years, there are instances where other provinces lagged behind and there is a need forintervention.

This intervention is meant to raise the standards of service delivery, to bring them in line with the minimum national standards. It is in this context that we must understand the section 100 intervention in the North West.

The report highlights, as correctly pointed out, that there are instances where service delivery has collapsed or has not met satisfactory standards as reflected in the report from the Inter-Ministerial Task Team which was also tabled for this House by the national Chair.

The report also highlighted the issue of inadequate human resources capacity. The challenges that we are faced and reflected in the Auditor- General's report in terms of a critical vacancies such as Chief Financial Officers and senior management roles, is an issue that was also reflected in the report.

The 2020 Local Government Week also reflected on this challenge, including instances where appointments were somehow compromised. We must be deliberate about building a capable human resource as part of our commitment to building a capable and developmental state with professionalised public services. This must be done in order to ensure that we are capable to respond to the demands and the complex realities of service delivery.

The Auditor-General 2019-20 report also reflects that there are issues around general capacity for proper financial management and internal audit. So, it's a matter that is also reflected in report, but we are also calling upon the sixth administration leadership to deal with these issues, but also to mitigate the usually overpriced financial consultants when it comes to audit because there is no in- house capacity built by these consultants.

Service delivery does not only improve the quality of life for our people but it is also a public investment by the developmental state, so it is important that as our commitment to building a developmental state, the provincial government must also attract investments in the province and creates value chains in order to build local economies.

It is important that we also emphasise the issue of localisation, which is very critical in ensuring sustainable and inclusive local economic growth, as the Minister has indicated. The state at a local government level has not taken up optimally the developmental role of providing support for Small, Medium & Micro Enterprises, SMMEs. The reality is that most municipalities still don't procure local goods and services from local producers and this compromises not only job creation, but the creation of local value chains and sustained economic activity.