Honourable Speaker, a decade ago when I was inducted into the South African Parliament, I was shocked and dismayed to hear some ANC members insult their opponents in the House by calling them dogs.
Sadly, today as I bid you farewell - at the end of my ten years of national service - the situation has deteriorated. These days the slur of choice is racist or racists.
That is what the Chief Whip of the ANC, Hon Jackson Mthembu, recently called all the members of the Democratic Alliance, in deference of his bereavement, I