Can I start by saying, I requested the secretary and the table to clarify to me at the moment when I ruled - was it correct or was it incorrect - Because, there was no correspondence to that effect in front of us. We were correct when we did that ruling as there was no correspondence.
Subsequently, I received a handwritten letter here on my table of which I still said it cannot be my issue. It should be something
that the whip should have clarified and it should have been reported to this House through the Chief Whip.
The Chief Whip is now reporting that the secretary subsequently said that he was contacted. In fact, the secretary said after the ruling, he was contacted and people showed him that there was a kind of correspondence. It's not about whether I was wrong or right, it is about what is the way forward now.
If the Chief Whip say, in terms of the way forward, this person can participate, it is not for me to say yes or no. I just work with what is in front of me and what has been clarified by the Chief Whip. It seems as if it is not clear for the DA whether the member... and I have subsequently heard from the secretary that the name of the member is hon Dylan Michelle.
I am just saying it because ordinary English have become so distorted that when I say foreigner someone think I am speaking about something else. But when I went to school my teacher taught me that vreemdeling [stranger] is foreigner. And a person that I don't know is a vreemdeling [stranger] to me. No. English is my fifth language, so don't come and tell me I was... A foreigner is a vreemdeling.
It is because you distort English in South Africa. That is where this thing is coming from. If you go to the dictionary and you say, antonym or synonym you will see the synonym for stranger is foreigner. Go and check that.