Hon House Chair, in South Africa today we are facing an economic crisis. Our people do not have access to land or the means of production, but at the same time there are no jobs. What this essentially means is that for millions of South Africans there is no way to survive besides dependence on the government social grant. For the last 25 years, the ANC government has done nothing to achieve the economic liberation of black South Africans from centuries of white oppression and exploitation. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows that South Africa's expanded unemployment