Speaker, at the risk of offending the hon Lekota, let me come in on the meat-labelling issue. As you yourself said, Sir, the issue is that the consumers have the right to know what it is that they are eating. That includes if they want to eat horse meat, then they must be told that what they've got is horse meat and they can be happy to eat horse meat. If they want to eat water buffalo and they are told it is water buffalo then they are happy to eat it. However, the issue is eating something else and it contains those products, then there is a problem with the labelling.
What we are doing as government and the Department of Trade and Industry is that the National Consumer Commission is conducting an investigation to see whether any of those suppliers were in contravention of the existing labelling requirements. Secondly we have issued out for public comment, a proposed strengthening of the notice so that consumers can be much more aware of what it is that they are consuming. Also, that the wording on the labelling enables the consumers to discern whether or not they are consuming a meat product that they are happy to consume.
Let me say that this is not unique to South Africa, it is international. There are global value chains on processed meat; we do not slaughter kangaroo or water buffalo in this country. Those are coming in as imports. The horse meat issue in the European Union also shows that this is an international issue. We are committed to ensuring that consumers have the right to choose what they consume and to be informed about what it is that they will consume. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, of course that does not take away your constitutional right, hon Lekota, but of course according to the Basotho, horse is transport and they do not eat transport according to them.