the past five years. Tax revenue is estimated to be about R150 billion less. What is the most astonishing and disgraceful is that roughly 600 000 fewer jobs were created.
Minister, regrettably, under the ANC government, with widespread crime, state capture and corruption, we agree that we are walking through the darkest valley.
You concluded that, in the future, we "shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace and the mountains and the hills shall break forth with singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands."