Deputy Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Deputy Secretary-General of the African National Congress, Comrade Thandi Modise, was sworn in as the Premier of the North West Province on Friday, 19 November 2010;
2) further notes that Premier Modise's political activity began in 1976 when, as a student, she was jailed for 10 years for fighting the apartheid regime, and she has served the ANC in various capacities, including as a member of the African National Congress Women's Executive Committee since 1994, and as deputy president from 1994 until 2004, Speaker of the North West province in the last term of Parliament, and she was elected Deputy Secretary- General of the ANC in Polokwane in 2007, and chaired the Portfolio Committee on Defence, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence, and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Ratification of the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women in the National Assembly; and
3) takes this opportunity to congratulate Premier Modise on her new deployment and wishes her well in our national quest to build a better South Africa and advance the lives of our people.
Motion agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.
Deputy Chair, I just made an interjection to say that we should give it a try but I don't think she will succeed. [Laughter.]
Hon Watson and the rest of the people in this House, can we keep to ourselves our personal objections to whatever is said. [Interjections.]
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No, that is fine, keep it to yourself.
Deputy Chairperson, I think hon Watson has not learnt from what the President said to him on Friday. [Interjections.] He must take the lesson from that.
[Inaudible.]
Can you allow us to proceed? Thank you.