Hon Chairperson, today we will hear a lot of vapid ANC jargon about economic transformation and serving the people. It is all very hackneyed, hollow and hopeless. The truth is that the ANC couldn't care less about serving the people. It is only interested in serving those inside its own tent, the ANC insiders.
If you are inside the very important person, VIP, section of the ANC tent - like many Ministers in this House - you are part of a corrupt empire on which the sun never sets. It is an empire where booze, braai packs and bribes are sponsored by Bosasa. If you are on the outside, well, as any number of ANC flunkeys have cautioned over the years, it is cold outside the ANC. That is why, under the ANC, black economic empowerment has enriched a few ANC fat cats at the expense of the majority who remain excluded and poor. That is why, under the ANC, you have to flash your black, green and gold membership card if you want a job in the public service. And that is why, under the ANC, the only thing the so-called developmental state has developed are the bank balances of ANC cronies who captured and plundered state-owned enterprises like