Chairperson, let me first salute the women of South Africa during this, the women's month. I also want to congratulate the women of South Africa for their achievements in tourism and business particularly women in the rural areas; women in finance and women in agriculture. We have gone a long way since 1994 in terms of developing and empowering our women in South Africa and I'm sure we'll hear more about this during the Women's Parliament, next week.
I would like to respond to the hon Nel that, indeed, the syllabus has left him behind. We are working together with the farmers. A week ago we had a meeting with the three farmers' unions, including AgriSA and National African Farmers' Union, and we agreed that we are going to work together on various issues including food security strategies, evictions and land reform, which includes our restitution programme.
I want to reassure the hon member that indeed, the farmers have agreed to work with us in this area and mobilise their constituency to ensure that we fast-track land reform and meet our targets on land restitution. It is in all of our interest to fast-track this programme, in particular, restitution, so that we can get started with the programme of nation building and reconciliation in South Africa.
On the matter of Mrs Nkabinde, it is quite clear that she is not an independent thinker; she has simply regurgitated all the propaganda that she has read in the press and is simply reading it out to us, without doing her own independent research and assessment of what really happened.
I also want to say, "viva" to the heroes and heroines who launched the South African National Civic Organisation, Sanco, and built the youth movement of South Africa. [Applause.]