Hon Speaker, with respect to the statement on Chapter 9 Institutions, we would agree that the Public Protector must play her role as a Chapter 9 Institution with full appreciation of the obligations related to that responsibility. However, we would urge that parties don't recognise that responsibility only when it suits them, but hold to it all the time, in all cases to be handled by the Public Protector or any other Chapter 9 Institution.
We certainly welcome the reference by the DA to the Goldman Sachs report, and we wish they had appreciated the important advances that have been made by South Africa since the advent of democracy, and with the leadership of the ANC in this country. The report acknowledges the advances made, not just in the economy, but in education, services delivered to the people of South Africa, and building a sustainable democracy in our country.
Finally, we wish to assure the hon member of Cope who spoke on the National Development Plan, that it will be an ANC-led government that implements that plan. We assure you that we will win the elections in 2014, and that we are committed to the National Development Plan. Thank you. [Applause.]