Deputy Speaker, last week the hon Dreyer from the DA spoke in this House about the plight of the poor when questioning funds spent in Nkandla. Another colleague of hers from the DA expressed similar concerns when questioning road construction in KwaZulu-Natal. Not to be outdone, the leader of the DA went on nothing more than a cheap publicity- seeking oversight visit on Sunday.
Yesterday, more than 2 000 poor farm workers right here in the Western Cape protested about the slave wages that they receive. [Interjections.] In the typical, hypocritical fashion of the DA, nothing was said about these poor people's plight, which is a clear sign that the DA would rather seek publicity than to deal with real matters of super-exploitation of farm workers in the Western Cape. Our advice to the DA is to sweep in front of their own doorstep before they concern themselves with that of others. [Applause.]