House Chairperson, maybe let me start with hon Boshoff, I thought you were present during the Sona debate when we explained the things that we are repeating again today. I think it is not worth it to repeat.
There is one point I want to address. You say we must follow the Western Cape. We live in Khayelitsha, Nyanga, Gugulethu and the cape flats and there is no change. I am sure the youth of Gugulethu, Nyanga and Khayelitsha will tell you that the braai cafs, which we needed to support them to do a franchise, has taken five years for the Western Cape to remove the red tape. That would not have
happened ... [Applause.] ... if those young people were in Constantia and related areas.
We shouldn't be selective and claim easy victories. You then said Small Enterprise Development Agency, Seda, and Small Enterprise Finance Agency, Sefa, are not working together. We articulated here measures for Sefa and Seda to work together. We mentioned that at a minimum, we are going to use common templates to apply for businesses. I thought it was a problem of the fighters. Maybe, I should have said 'same application forms' so that approval is easier. [Applause.]
When we throw around statistics, we must be factual. We said something about municipalities ... and you said we did what? It will take us 20 years ... we have done 133 municipalities with regard to training because we accept the responsibility that businesses and small businesses in particular operate at a local level.
You are saying to us that we ... Maybe, I should also ask the question, hon Cloete. Hon Cloete, you said the department is not necessary. Contradictory to that, you said small businesses are the engine of the economy. Then somebody goes into detail about the how the German economy is driven by manufacturing and all that. It's
like you never listened to Minister Patel when he was presenting the focused areas of this administration where he spoke about manufacturing, agriculture ... I don't need to list them. The President has also done the same. I think we shouldn't be opposition for the sake of opposition. We should be opposition that builds because we are loyal to South Africa.
Maybe I must ask. Beneath the overalls, what are we wearing because I am wearing Ara Emporium from 27 Boxes, in Melville, Johannesburg. It is made by a black young woman.
Xitsonga:
... wena Mathevula, tshama kahle ehansi u miyela, u yingisela. Ku va u tekela ehansi mabindzu lamatsongo a swi vuli leswaku a ya na nkoka. Loko a wu langutile u tlhela yingiserile, a wu ta swi twisisa leswaku mabindzu lamatsongo hi wona ya pfunetaka eka ikhonomi ya hina. Hambi ku ri eGermany laha u vulavulaka hi kona, BMW, Audi na Mercedes Benz a va kurisi hi ikhonomi ya Germany kambe va langutisisa eka mabindzu ya misava hinkwayo. Ikhonomi ya le ndzeni ka tiko yi kurisiwa hi mabindzu lamatsongo ni ya le xikarhi. Hikwalaho ke, hi fanele hi dyondza ku yingiselana.
English:
Hon Mfayela, we are not talking about plans; we have articulated to you the exact measures we are doing to implement the plans. We have spoken about eight incubators across the provinces, the TVET colleges having the rapid incubators and digital hubs. Maybe we didn't give you details on the digital hubs.
Already, the Department of Education and Vodacom have worked on 72 youth centres and those are the ones that we are expanding on. We are not talking about starting anew; we are renewing those that were there. They are in all your provinces, hon members. There is one in Makhado, Alexandra ... I won't list them as they will take my time. I need to deal with your ...
Hon Cloete, you said private sector is staying away. You should have listened to the complete speech because we also said the private sector is coming to the party. It has offered to partner with us on the blended financing model and to engage us and we signed agreements on the Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises, SMMEs, supplying the value chains of their businesses. So, they are not staying away anymore. They are responding to the thuma mina and khawuleza message of our President. [Applause.]
Hon Boshoff, let me come back to you. You said to us SMMEs must be exempted from Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, BBBEE. Those exemptions are there. We committed in the Budget Speech that we are going to assist them to ensure that they access them easily because we have spoken about one-stop shop of supporting SMMEs to say ... and we said we are not the co-ordinator of small businesses for government, we are the co- ordinator of small businesses for South Africa.
Our part is to ensure that wherever a small business, it must be supported whether in the private sector or government, they will find it from us. [Time expired.] It is actually Minister, ma'am. [Applause.]