Agb waarnemnde Voorsitter, baie dankie vir die geleentheid om hier te staan. Ek wil vir agb Mulder s dat hy baie warme kole in die Huis gegooi het. Ek het jou daar gehoor.
English:
Before I get to my speech, I have a reminder to the DA. I just want to say on my way there say to the EFF, I decided not to take what they were saying serious. As I was listening to them, I was reminded of "tell no lies, claim no easy victory", somebody who sounded like a scratched record playing with words, in populism dream land. One think that I really took seriously
hon Speaker, is the fact that he justified the disruptions in Parliament. That is serious and we must act on that.
I want to go to hon Julius of the DA. Last week hon Cele stood here and announced that the National Government is bringing re- enforcements of police and soldiers to the Cape Flats. As the ANC, I have all the confidence that he is going to stabilise and he will leave that place better than what it is. It is not going to solve the problem because of the following: What he is dealing with are root causes of social ills. Those social ills the DA in the Western Cape, instead of using the money that is allocated to install street lights, money to build communities, money to ensure that there are amenities, returned that money to the Treasury. They have returned over R1,7 billion in the previous year. Money that could have helped in Philippi to install street lights, to ensure police that police has an access to deal with issues of crime. Today we are sitting here, young lives have been lost and most of them women.