I will take up your offer and we can go through the Rules together. It is time that we also take the best practises, even from those with different ideological views on board and implement it. On Tuesday and today, you reiterated the importance to remove red tape, which is commendable. There are certain municipalities and provinces that have done a much better job in reducing red tape. In the Western Cape, there is a very good unit that we can learn from and roll it out. It does not mean that everybody must apply the same, but it is something that will help every single business across South Africa.
If you don't want to listen to provinces, in Parliament, a brilliant Private Member's Bill was introduced last year, by a DA colleague of mine, yet it was shot down, not on the merits of the case, but because it came from a different party. In this NCOP, especially, the margins are very, very close. If we are going to start taking our hands and work together to improve, we will make great progress.
We have a few suggestions. Unfortunately, my time is running out. I am going to touch on just two of them. There is a Jobs Bill that will be introduced now, which focuses on two areas critical to economic recovery - foreign investment and SMMEs.
Before, I finish, I will reference another quote. It is slightly amended. It is one that you used in this House and in the committee again: The South African working age population is in a critical condition, on life support in the ICU. You will remember it.
Minister, I plead and beg, please let us take hands, across party- political lines, with all the sectors, public and private, and ensure that we take us out of the critical unit, the ICU, stabilise us and take our country forward. Thank you.