Besides, a key element of the reconstruction and development programme is to use public investment to build our society, to build the capacity of our factories but, more important, to build the capacity of our people. You learnt here, even as you debated and argued amongst yourselves, the TLCs and the District Councils, the Department and the unions, the Moutse people and those from Kwa-Mhlanga, inside and outside your project steering committee. You learnt that if a plan is to become a finished project, there comes a time to stop arguing and get down to work. It is an important lesson. This leads to the second thing I want to refer to, the sustainability of the projects.
Sustainability is a big word for a very simple concern.
I want to know, when I come back in a year's time, whether water will still be flowing from the taps. In one project I know, in the Eastern Cape, the water stopped flowing not long after the work finished. It is not the job of the national department to run your water supplies. I know that the Minister has insisted on this. The Constitution describes that the job of providing water is the local government's responsibility.