Hon Chair, hon Dr, Minister and sister, when you were given the great honour to be our Minister of International Relations on the eve of commemorating President Mandela, we saw you realising his dream of a free South Africa which we all know he said will only happen when occupied Palestine is free.
Hon Minister now is not the time to talk about the two state solutions. We do not want a solution for Palestine; we call for freedom for the Palestinians. The same freedom South Africans enjoy today. One man, one vote!
We cannot thank the leadership of the international relations enough, for the position on the Palestinian struggle. It was the Palestinians who facilitated the huge arm shipment of weapons from Libya via Angola and then in a Russian truck and more trucks to South Africa where former Defence Minister, Modise, took delivery. We should send weapons to Palestine. The truck is still here.
It is disappointing that the African renaissance and the International Co- operation Fund budget has declined over the years. Does that help our President as Chair of the African Union, AU, to take further the dream of brother, Colonel Gaddafi, for a united Africa?
However, we still have former President Thabo Mbeki who will support him and we are waiting for the identification of a site
for a Pan-African Parliament which we hope will be within a stone's throw from Parliament in District Six, the hub of the resistance in the 1960s. This was the dream of President Thabo Mbeki.
Judge Fikile Bam was arrested in District Six. The great African intellectual, Archie Mafadi spoke about the African Renaissance in District Six. So, Minister we are waiting for you to take the lead and take forward the African Renaissance.
Minister, we have to express our disappointment on your silence on the untimely death of the first democratically elected president of Egypt. We also want to suggest to you that you look into Pakistan for the nuclear energy to help us with our electricity crisis.
Our hopes lie in you, in negotiating a settlement between Morocco and the Western Sahara the ambassador which Aljamaah hosted recently because they are both close to our hearts. [Time expired.]