- needed hospital infrastructure maintenance backlogs including kitchen equipment, mortuary equipment, laundry services and other general hospital infrastructure in the North west;
- • that there must be continuous engagements with labour unions and committees with a view of maintaining labour peace and stability that will contribute to improved service delivery;
- • that the ultimate exit strategy should address the change management imperatives, such as skills transfer, address capacity challenges and capabilities of the North West government to function effectively, strongperformance

monitoring, establishment of independent governance, as well as accountability structures and institutionalising new standard operating procedure;

- • that this exit strategy should take into account that a successful intervention provides for adequate period of transition to ensure stability during the post intervention period;
- • that the IMTT submit an exit strategy to the NCOP prior to withdrawing the intervention, this will allow the NCOP to make its own assessment on whether the strategy addresses all the systemic issues raised in the committee report;
- • that all the role players including the NCOP, government, civil servants and other state structures should

contribute in helping the North West province to stabilise.

Hon Chairperson, it is vitally important that political parties, especially, are stable and function effectively to play their role. The participation of civil society also needs to be strengthened and contribute more to ensuring that the province is brought back to normality and function effectively.

Lastly, that the process be expedited promulgation of the legislation which regulates intervention in terms ofsection 100 and section 139 of the Constitution.

It is the considered view of this committee that sufficient progress has been registered in bringing about stability in the North West province. However, the magnitude of the outstanding challenges which still persist, the committee is of the view that continuous and regular monitoring of intervention as required by section 100.2.C of the Constitution must be made until intervention is ended.

Once the intervention is ended, the NCOP should ensure that

Parliamentary sector committees of this NCOP obtain this report to follow up on the set recommendations made by the ad- hoc committee inquiring into the North West section 100 intervention. With that, we want to heartily thank all the participants, all the role players, including the staff of this legislature, that helped us to arrive at this point that we are able to present the report before you, hon Chairperson. We therefore wish to thank everybody who assisted the ad-hoc committee in the performance of its work. Thank you verymuch.

The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL

AFFAIRS: Hon Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP, Chairperson of the Select Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, hon Dodovu, Deputy Minister of Cogta, hon Bapela, members of the provincial executives, representatives of South African Local Government Association, hon members, let me thank you for the opportunity to participate in this debate and provide context to the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the section 100 Intervention in the North West Province.

The debate occurs under very difficult circumstances because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which