Thank you, Chairperson; working together, we can do more.
The hon member is right when he says that 500 000 jobs have been unpacked by the Minister of Public Works. I want to inform the hon members - I don't know why they are not aware of this - that most of those workers, including those involved in past EPWPs, were trained by the Department of Labour.
Hon Willie Madisha knows that, because Cosatu, Fedusa and Nactu had a job creation trust. He chaired that trust. In fact, I reminded him many times that he never commended the Department of Labour. Yet, in all the reports that he provided, the training was done by the Department of Labour. Their training was done by either the Department of Labour or the Department of Environmental Affairs, but they never, not even once, expressed their gratitude to this government of the ANC.
This is for the benefit of the hon members so that they know that you have to win elections - sometimes I must just brag a bit. On page 25 of the manifesto of the ANC it says the following, and I'm going to read it slowly to you because we must implement this:
In order to avoid exploitation of workers and ensure decent work for all workers as well as to protect the employment relationship, introduce laws to regulate contract work, subcontracting, outsourcing, address the problem of labour broking and prohibit certain abusive practices ...
And therefore, sir, whether you like it or not, ideologically we are poles apart. The ANC will do it. That's what I want to tell you: I represent that organisation. I may not be a member of the NEC, but I am a member of the