... Yes, I do walk my talk. Hon Chairperson, it is very easy in the morning tomorrow for members to read the Hansard and look at the utterances of members and the rulings that we make. It will not take the legal expect to see the correctness of our sessions from the Chair here. It doesn't require a rocket science. Not at all. And we will do it with the greatest pleasure. Because this hypocrisy is in out of order and it must be called out of order. It's in writing. You run the risk of people seeing in writing your own misrepresentation what you could have read. You should read what your members are saying and what your rulings are saying.
Our conduct in the House must be consistent with our suggestion that we must demonstrate to the people that we will handle their affairs properly and consistently. That we recognize the necessity to draw from each other's insights across the
boundaries of political parties. It's an appropriate rule to handle to things that are confronting us.
Madam Speaker, thank you for your leadership. The announcements you have made that you referred to here about delegations to my colleagues, the House Chairpersons as well as me, is really appreciated, it enables us to hit the road running. These areas are crucial to the work that are partly covered in our legacy report. In other words, the work we have done for example around what is refereed to as e-Parliament of the so called 4th Industrial Revolution. In May last year we held a seminar and that seminar was significant for two reasons, that already inside some of the departments especially of economic development were already exploring with other departments what are the challenges we are facing in terms of these developments and what can we do. Some of those issues were shared with us and other departments. Hon Pandor, at the higher education already initiated what now exists, a panel that is responsible for co- ordinating efforts to deal with matters that we were calling for a national strategy to deal with matters. Our principal reason
for doing so was so that we attend to the vulnerabilities that are brought about by this so called 4th Industrial Revolution.
There is a risk as a result of automation. Decisions that are made not within and by us necessarily but elsewhere that has an impact on the number of people who continue to occupy their jobs, that if they are suddenly rendered without jobs as it is happening in many organisations thus have a route externally to South Africa that those people we already have to deal with as the list of unemployment grows. We have a necessary responsibility as public sector, as Parliament, as the executive where this is appropriate to interface with the private sector so that these matters of vulnerability, of the risk to the public that is employed that required to be employed is acted upon together. So that certain decisions are deferred for later application whilst we are building capacity for the employability of the people. This is a crucial strategy for dealing with the inevitable risks that we are confronted with. We can't wait for those to happen. Thank you very much for giving us that responsibility. We are saying it here that we should invite people with interest in this particular area so
that we must share insights. We will do so appropriately at the right forums.
The most important part of that is that we ourselves as an institution deal with people's data. Deal with your data as members, personal information and so on. We should not be at risk of this information being stolen, used abusively without our intervention by our administration working with us to protect that. So that it is in our hands and we are able to sovereignty not only of the work we do here as an institution but as the country we are assured by the executive that we are acting appropriately to protect ourselves but act appropriately also to take advantages of the new opportunities.
A long time ago others like Marx argued for the necessity to deal with the problem of alienation, to deal with the problem of drudgery of hard work. If a machine can do with and people do more interesting cultural things and so on, why not? So this is an appropriate intervention to deal with matters of developments in this area.
A lot of our people have migrated to cyberspace. They are constituting part of our constituency that we must service so we must be able to interact appropriately with them where they are at whilst we are attending to matters that confronts us.
We really appreciate this responsibility. Not only that we also are clear that questions of language policy - the creative use of our indigenous languages and the philosophical and wisdom they carry must be available to all of us and all of our people so that we beat the boundaries that were created by tribalism and the attempts by colonialism and apartheid to render us apart, ununited even though for all intents and purposes we are orientated to the same gravitation towards humaneness and human practice. Despite those insignificant - so to speak- attempts fascists' tendencies that we must beat and defeat.
Chairperson, we are inspired by the need to identify opportunities effectively. The Speaker has outlined a couple of those things that we must work and interact with the staff so that they provide the necessary support to the work we do. There are many talented people in this environment irrespective of
race, colour, creed and age because we build on the strength of all of them in their diversity to ensure that we prop up and support as the Speaker said what we have responsibility to.
Asserting our humaneness is necessary to deal with the problems often characterized as xenophobic and fight of people from outside of this country. We have a proactive responsibility as Parliament to consistently and publicly express our disgust as those actions. People must know that we benefited from the hearts of others in the world for our freedom. We must protect theirs consistently as well. I thank you. [Time expires.]