Mr MKMMOEIMANG: Thank you national Chair, let me also rise on behalf of the ANC to support the report as tabled by the ad hoc committee Chair, hon Dodovu. Indeed, to understand the context of the report, allow me to quote what the great father of the National Democratic Revolution said. Ntate Sisulu said that:

'Every organisation engaging in a National Democratic Revolution constantly has to isolate and search for solutions crucial both to its continued existence and to the success of revolution as a whole. In a certain sense the story of our National Democratic Revolution is a story of problems arising and problems overcome'.

This is what he said in one of his writings in 1976. I think the report as tabled by the Chair, clearly articulate the challenges that we are faced with in the province of North

West. But of course, what the report also record, reminds us of what the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China said when he said that:

'History is the best textbook. History faithfully records every country's journey and also give inspiration for future development'.

The lessons learned from this is that the sixth administration will be able to use the report as basis to avoid the pitfalls and the potholes as alluded to in the report. Indeed, some of the democratic forces in 1994 was without a doubt a milestone in the transformation in the South African society and definitely it articulated the type of the state that we want. We have said in 2007 that as the ANC, we are committed to building a capable and developmental state. Therefore, it becomes important that the challenge that we are faced with in the province must be articulated against what we want as a developmental state.

Indeed, our understanding of a paradigm of a developmental state is located in the spirit as articulated in the Constitution and in the vision laid out on the National Developmental Plan, it is a state with vertical capacity, it

is the state at the centre of it focusing on a socioeconomic transformation, and it is a state with a professionalised public services. These characteristics are issues that we just had to oppose to what was happening in the province, which necessarily forced us to say there is an intervention to ensure that socioeconomic challenges are addressed.

We had to intervene to ensure that capacity what seems to be the issue is addressed. Of course, we can't run away from the fact that some of the provinces were built out of the legacy of Bantustans and we all understand that what we have inherent in those Bantustans and homelands, was an inheritance of socioeconomic problems like lack of water, lack of proper human settlement, no electrification and, generally lack of other socioeconomic infrastructure.

Therefore, this provincial government was confronted with those legacies. It is important to also indicate that there are peculiar issues that had to be taken into account, particularly as reflected in the General Household Survey, 2019, to be able to understand the issues that are isolated in the section 100 intervention. This General Household Survey tracks the progress of development and identifies persistent service delivery gaps over a period of 18 years andcontained

information across a wide variety of issues such as service delivery, education, and economic development.