Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there was no need for them to set up other structures to deal with the land issues.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

You can say to this unemployed family, people are indigent, that they must pay for water and this and that and refuse removal and so on. They have no money. We may very well say that, but does the municipality have the capacity to do it? So, that's why we said that we need to have a thorough look at the functioning of local government and that will include the financing. So that this poor person does indeed access that water.

Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.