Hon Chairperson, in addition, in 2018 there was non-compliance with supply chain processes with persistent lack of consequence management for transgressions and the ever

increasing unauthorised irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditures. At the time, the provincial government had systematically outsourced service delivery by irregularly appointing the project management units involving hundreds of millions of rands, especially in the departments of Human Settlement, health, agriculture and public works.

In most of the municipalities in the North West, the municipal services were in the state of collapse and the municipalities were unable to render basic services such as water and electricity while roads were in terrible conditions.

Prior to placing the North West under administration, President Ramaphosa did appoint an inter- ministerial task team to conduct extensive engagements with stakeholders. After the Cabinet took a decision to intervene in the North West, it deployed the assessment teams to conduct rapid diagnostic analysis of all provincial departments.

It was on those bases that Cabinet intervene in ten departments; five under section 101b with administrators deployed to run the departments while five other departments were issued with ministerial directives in terms of section 101A of the Constitution.

In this regard, the President appointed an inter-ministerial task team under the leadership of Minister Dr Dlamini-Zuma to be accountable to the Cabinet and to regularly report to the NCOP.

To give effect to the implementation of the intervention, a memorandum of understanding together with the implementation protocols were signed with the province to provide the framework for governance during the intervention.

It is our committee's view that the national executive fully complied with the Constitution by giving the NCOP a written notice of intervention within the prescribed period of 14 days.

Accordingly, the NCOP has also complied in terms of section

- by setting up an ad-hoc committee in order for it to regularly review the intervention and to make appropriate recommendations to the national executive.

In discharging its mandate on behalf of this House, the ad-hoc committee interacted with a variety of stakeholders including the IMTT itself, National Treasury and Auditor General. It also met with all the law enforcement agencies whichinclude

the National Prosecuting Authority, the directorate of crime investigation the Hawks, the Special Investigating Unit, SIU, as well as the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, IPID.

In addition, the committee undertook an oversite visit to the North West in March this year, where it interacted with the Premier and its executive council, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, labour unions, traditional leaders, religious fraternity and other community stakeholders, like the Madibogo community forum.

During our oversite visit, we went to Dr Kenneth Kaunda and Nyaka-Modiri Molema districts where schools, hospitals, social development centres, the road and bridge projects and the local airport were visited. This was done to follow up on the work of our predecessor committee which visited the