Deputy Speaker, let me thank the member who has just spoken about the Queenstown massacre. On Saturday last week, 17 November 2012, which was the exact anniversary of the Queenstown Massacre, I had the honour to be deployed by the National Executive Committee of the ANC to be part of the commemoration and celebration of the lives of these comrades. This, indeed, is a reminder of the role played by our activists in their various localities in the struggle for liberation in our country.
UBaba uNgcana owayewusihlalo walo mhlangano mhla ziyi-17 kuLwezi wadutshulwa ekhanda ngamaphoyisa ayeholwa ngelinye iphoyisa lobandlululo okwakuthiwa u-Van Vuuren esontweni. [Mr Ngcana, who was the chairperson of the meeting held on 17 November 2012, was shot in the head whilst in church by the police officers who were led by an apartheid policeman called Van Vuuren.]
I am convinced that as a country we do need to embark on a local history project, and that Government needs to play a leading role in order for the heroic deeds of our people to be told. We can forgive, but must never forget, so that our country will never again descend into such barbarism.
This is even more important in the wake of an ideological offensive to try to wipe the history of apartheid and its brutalities from our history. When the people of KwaMlungisi, eKomani, were being butchered, none of today's democrats had the guts to march to P W Botha's house in protest against this. Thank you very much. [Applause.]