Chairperson, I hereby give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
(1) thanks the Minister of Health, Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, for having a very successful National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which started on 1 October 2000;
(2) is aware that breast cancer is a scourge that affects all women regardless of race, creed or colour;
(3) notes that in South Africa the awareness of breast cancer is very low among black women, so symptoms are discovered late, leading to a high mortality rate among this group of women, far more than any other group of women;
(4) further notes that risk factors include hereditary factors, not having had any children or having one's first child in one's thirties, being over 50, having a high fat diet and prolonged use of hormone replacement therapy;
(5) also notes that unlike the USA and Britain, South Africa does not have a specific policy on screening for breast cancer using regular mammograms, but all South Africans are always encouraged by the department to do regular self-examinations and to seek medical help should a lump be found; and (6) considers actively participating in publicity campaigns against this traumatic disease.
Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council calls upon the Government and the people of South Africa to -
(1) support the international search for genuine peace in the Middle East in spite of attempts, including terrorist action, to derail the process;
(2) discourage attempts to divide South Africans and to carry Middle Eastern divisions into South Africa and to inflame opinion, which is not helpful to the process of supporting and building a fair and lasting peace in the best interests of all the people in the region, or of world peace and national unity; and
(3) show real understanding and sympathy for the legitimate aspirations and claims of elected governments in the region and to support the efforts of peacemakers, including the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to get the peace process back on track.
Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
(1) noting that -
(a) the Democratic Alliance is fully aware of the human rights atrocities committed by the apartheid state against our people before 1994;
(b) the struggle of the people of South Africa is not dissimilar to the struggle of the Palestinian people against oppression and exploitation;
(c) the landless masses of South Africa suffered a similar fate to that which the landless people of Palestine have suffered; and
(d) the essential tenets of the apartheid system were not unlike the essential tenets of the strategy of the Israeli state against the people of Palestine; and most fundamentally, the death of Muhammad Al-Durra, an innocent 12-year-old Palestinian boy, in the hands of his father, caused by live bullets from the brutal Israeli security forces, is a repeat of the death of Hector Peterson in Soweto in 1976 by live bullets from the brutal apartheid security forces,
(2) calls on the Democratic Alliance and its leader, Tony Leon, to -
(a) state categorically whether they see a comparison between the apartheid struggle and the struggle of the Palestinian people;
(b) condemn the brutal human rights violations committed by the Israeli state against the people of Palestine;
[Interjections.]
(c) undertake to viciously fight against a repetition of our apartheid history ... [Interjections.]
Order! Hon members, order! Hon member, you are making a long speech. Can you make your motion shorter?
I am almost finished, Chairperson. I continue:
... wherever it rears its evil head, especially as it does so now in Palestine, to save humanity from such pain and suffering; and
(d) undertake to publicly communicate the abhorrence that millions of peace- and freedom-loving South Africans ...
[Interjections.]
Order! Hon member, can you sit down. Hon members, do not provoke emotions from either side. This exchange results from the exchange of emotions and interruptions. I am not going to call anyone to order, because there are interruptions from both sides. Continue, hon member.
Chairperson, I continue:
... feel towards the brutal Israeli security forces.
Voorsitter, ek gee kennis dat by die volgende sitting van die Raad sal voorstel:
Dat die Raad kennis neem van -
(1) die DA se stewige vertoning tot dusver in die plaaslike algemene verkiesingsveldtog;
(2) die ongekende toenemende ondersteuning vir die DA en die entoesiastiese wyse waarop die leierskap van die DA ontvang word in voorheen sogenaamde ``no-go zones'' dwarsdeur die land;
(3) die totale oorheersing van die DA in die Kaapse Metropool asook die oorweldigende steun wat die DA se burgemeesterskandidaat, mnr Peter Marais, onder alle kiesers in die Wes-Kaap geniet, veral ten opsigte van armoedeverligting en AZT;
(4) die totale chaos wat binne ANC-geledere heers oor die aanwysing van kandidate en die flou vertoning van hierdie party tot dusver in die munisipale algemene verkiesing;
(5) die toenemende afname van kiesersvertroue teenoor die President, asook hulle ontevredenheid oor mnr Mbeki se hantering van landsake en onskynlike opsigtelike afwesigheid uit die RSA; en
(6) die ANC se totale onvermo om 'n beter lewe vir al die mense op grondvlak te skep en hul gebruik van die Palestynse-Israeli- konflik om sekere voordele daaruit te haal wat hoegenaamd niks met Suid-Afrika te doen het nie. (Translation of Afrikaans notice of motion follows.)
[Mr C ACKERMANN: Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council notes - (1) the DA's strong showing up to now in the local general election campaign;
(2) the unprecedented growing support for the DA and the enthusiastic manner in which the leadership of the DA is received in former so- called "no-go areas" throughout the country;
(3) the overall dominance of the DA in the Cape Metropole, as well as the overwhelming support which the DA's mayoral candidate, Mr Peter Marais, enjoys among all voters in the Western Cape, especially in respect of poverty relief and AZT;
(4) the total chaos within ANC ranks about the nomination of candidates and the poor performance to date of this party in the municipal general election;
(5) the growing decline of voter confidence in the President, as well as their dissatisfaction with Mr Mbeki's handling of matters of state and his seemingly conspicuous absence from the RSA; and
(6) the ANC's total inability to create a better life for all at grassroots level and their use of the Palestine-Israeli conflict in order to extract from it certain benefits which have nothing at all to do with South Africa.]
Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
(1) requests the support of the President for a call to the end of all senseless and brutal killing in Africa, in the Middle East and wherever it occurs; and
(2) calls on all South African parliamentarians not to use the hurt and death of others as a cheap political trick in the Council.
HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear!
Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move: That the Council -
(1) notes with regret the escalation of the cholera epidemic in KwaZulu- Natal;
(2) commends the Department of Health and the joint crisis committee for their prompt handling of the outbreak of cholera in the affected areas;
(3) urges the Department of Health to provide effective drugs to the cholera patients in rehydration centres;
(4) expresses condolences to the families of the deceased; and
(5) calls on the private sector to play a more prominent and active role in the provision of water and sanitation to the disadvantaged communities.