House Chairperson, the ANC commends and welcomes the decision by the executive authority to take the necessary steps and deal with this issue of the Secretary to Parliament. We also welcome the decision and recommendations of the Chairperson of the disciplinary hearing, we support it as the ANC. Hon members, yes the process took long but, I want remind this House that ...
Siswati:
...ngitsi emalunga aleSishayamtsetfo saVelonkhe. Ngitsi lekufanele sicinise imitsetfo, kutsi uma umuntfu nangabe atfolakala anelicala lekukhwabanisa, uma amiswa emsebentini kwesikhashana, angaholelwe, angalitfoli liholo. Siyicinise futsi lemitsetfo kutsi uma sekulandzelwe yonkhe lemigomo lekufanele ilandzelwe, loyo
muntfu - uyeva Steenhuisen - atfolakale kutsi ukhokhela tonkhe letimali leti latikhwabanisile ngoba njengoba sonkhe sihleti lapha sibhadala intsela kantsi iyasilimata kakhulu. Leyo ntsela incedza bantfu labahluphekile.
SiyiPhalamende, singemalunga etinhlangano letehlukahlukene siyakhala kutsi asiniketwa timali letifanele, letanele. Ngiyacabanga kutsi ngekucinisa leyo mitsetfo kutawenta kutsi bantfu labaningi basabe kutsi bantjontje esikhwameni sahulumende nome sePhalamende. Ngicabanga kutsi loko kufanele kucale kulo lePhalemende, kuningi lokufanele sikulungise. Yebo singema lapha sitsi hhayi [cadre deployment] hheyi kucashanwa ngekutsi ulilunga layiphi inhlangano noma kunalabo bebahudvula tinyawo ekutseni lelicala lingacedvwa, akusilo liciniso.
Lebekufanele kwenteke kutsi kulandzelwe imitsetfo ngendlela yakhona kute lentfo ingabuyi emuva ishaye yona Iphalemende kutsi ifanele ikhokhele umuntfu ngoba bangakahambisanga kahle tintfo.
Angitsi ngitsi lesishaya imitsetfo levikela labantfu labonako lebaniketa litfuba lekutsi bahambe nabo bente
lonkhe loluhlelo kutsi luhambe kancane, ngoba banemalungelo ekutsi bativikele. Kufanele siyishintje leyo mitsetfo sente siciniseko sekutsi siyayicinisa, kute kuphele lokukhwanabanisa lokukhona, ngoba loko kungumdlavuta lolimata live letfu. Bantfwana betfu bayalimala ngetindzaba tekukhwabanisa ngoba kunetinsita lekufanele tiye kubo nebantfu labahluphekile, abakhoni kutitfola ngendzaba yekukhwabanisa eveni letfu. Ngiyabonga. (Translation of Siswati pragraphs follows.)
[... we are the members of this very National Legislature. We are the ones who must reinforce the laws, that if anyone is found guilty of corruption, if one is temporarily suspended from work, must not get his salary.
We must also make sure that when all the procedures have been followed, that person - do you understand hon Steehuisen? That person must be made to pay back all the monies he defrauded and as we are all here we pay tax and it is not a nice thing. That tax is helping the poor.
As Parliament, we are members of different parties and we always complain that we are not being allocated enough funds. I think by reinforcing strict rules will make those people deter from stealing from the government funds or from Parliament.
I think that must first start from this very Parliament, there is a lot that need to be fixed. Yes, we can stand here saying no to cadre deployment, no to employing people according to party affiliation or there are those who are dragging their feet so that this case may not be finalised, that is not the truth. What was supposed to have happened was to follow all the procedures accordingly so that this may not come and hit back to Parliament and make Parliament to pay that person because Parliament did not follow procedures properly.
We are the ones making the laws that protect people who do wrong and that gives them opportunity to drag the process because they have rights to defend themselves.
We need to change those laws and ensure that we tighten them so that this corruption must come to an end, because that is a cancer that is killing our country. Our children are adversely affected by corruption because there are services that they and the poor must get, yet they cannot get them because of corruption in our country. Thank you.]
The House adjourned at 16:50. -----------------------