We have been crying about the lack of transformation in sport for the past two decades and we have done nothing to entrench sport development in rural areas and in townships.
Makazole Mapimpi comes from a rural area, with a deep culture of playing rugby. There are thousands more Mapimpis in the Eastern Cape whose skills need to be nurtured, but the system excludes them. Twenty-five years into democracy, the ANC government still backs this racism.
The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture is a dismal failure in this regard. There is no vision and plan, no ability to develop our sport and arts and culture. Therefore, we reject this Bill. You are going to support it and you are going to support anarchy. The EFF will never be part of anarchy.
Thank you, hon Chair. I don't think the House realise what a culture of a certain ethnic group means and what it is. It is where you come from. If you do not know where your roots