Hon House Chairperson, on the comments made by members with regard to issues of crime and some of the incidences that happened in the recent past, there is no immediate threat to South Africa on its national security and its constitutional order. There is no immediate threat. However, there are issues that we need to attend to that bothers on the threat of social stability and the social cohesion. Those issues have to do with the issue that was raised about basically the lack of fear of consequence of breaking the law, such as killing of police and doing everything that undermines the authority of the state. That is the biggest problem that we have and I think we are attending to that issue.
There is an issue about xenophobia and the fact that government has not responded. The recent attacks we have seen, I do not think we must glorify them and give them any nice names. It is
pure criminality. For an example, if you look at what happened recently in Ekurhuleni over the past, let us say three days ago, we made this last week, the attack on the shops around the area of Katlehong, Sontonga Mall, there is no foreign national who owns any shop there, it is all South Africans. Therefore it is important that when we make this, we do not in our articulation glorify this criminality. We must speak in one language in terms of how we undermine and condemn this criminality.
The last issue is that there is no evidence before us that suggest that these recent incidences are acts of xenophobic attacks. The evidence before us in fact for example we have 12 people who have died, two of which are foreign nationals, 10 are South Africans. A number of incidences and shops that were looted in Johannesburg that we spoke about last week is nothing else nothing else, but a competition of walker market. For what we have now identified are kingpins behind these attacks. When people attack a liquor store there is a tavern owner who is readily available for them to sell. So, there is a competition of a market that we are dealing with. Thank you very much. [Applause.]