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Continue hon member.
Thank you House Chairperson. I hope it was nothing I said. House Chairperson, fellow members, ladies and gentlemen, the year 2019, what a year! I think we can all agree that half of this year was spent saying, wow, what was that? And the rest of the year flew by so fast that it's hard to believe that we are here, the end of the parliamentary term, the end of the year and most astoundingly, we are at the end of a decade.
It has been a year of many changes. We have had two state of the nation addresses in one year because of a general election. We said goodbye to friends and colleagues, and we welcomed new friends and colleagues. We were collectively glued to TV screens as we watched the Zondo commission go about its business, sometimes confirming