Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) recognises the World Day of Social Justice marked on 20 February, and this year's theme being "the gap between the poorest and the wealthiest around the world is wide and growing";
2) acknowledges that this is a topic near and dear to our hearts and that, as a nation, we are ranked amongst the top countries in the entire world in respect of huge disparities between the rich and the poor;
3) further acknowledges that the aim of the United Nations, UN, was to promote the objectives and goals of the World Summit for Social Development;
4) recognises that social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous co-existence within and among nations;
5) further recognises that South Africa upholds the principles of social justice; promotes gender equality and the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants; and advances social justice when it removes barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability;
6) calls upon the government and all its departments collectively to work together in the spirit of social justice as this is a societal issue that requires all to give it as much attention as can be given; and
7) applauds governmental efforts to date for the establishment of the early childhood development centres, ECDs, in every ward of the country, especially in the poor areas identified through Project Mikondzo, but urges that more be done in the furtherance of the bigger goal of bridging the inequality gap.
Agreed to.