Hon President I want to alert you to a challenge that South Africa is facing which is worse than climate change and that is the chemical poisoning of our rivers
and the pouring of raw sewerage into our rivers, killing our marine life and creating toxins that are causing nearly a million people to die a slow death in Khayelitsha. So, Mr President I hope you will consider this harm to the environment and save part of the planet for our children.
Hon Speaker, Comrade Chair the President can be assured of Aljama's support for his vision of a prosperous and peaceful South Africa as espoused in the National Development Plan (NDP). We want a rollout of 10 million jobs. Decent and next generation jobs Mr President and not stone aged jobs.
Aljama wants to ask the hon President to establish incubation job hubs at schools, colleges and universities as we notice that the corporate world is a lame dark in creating the jobs we need. It is in these hubs that new revenistries will be identified like we identified for the internet.
The 4th industrial revolution demands hon President, a cyber civilization with free data and free 5G connectivity. We say hon
President be brave and make coding the 12th official language of South Africa
Mr President we've heard earlier on how important the National Health Insurance (NHI) is and it's not necessary to debate it anymore. We need to bring the NHI to life, it is not right for one to die because one is poor and then have the advantage to live because you are rich.
The 6th Parliament has disappointed the country's vision for a democratic Africa by being quiet on the untimely death of the first democratically elected President of Egypt. I'm also disappointed that the Defence Force allows a Colonel to introduce his clam phobia into its ranks. For ten years no Colonel objected to a Muslim Major Sis Fatima Isaacs wearing a modest plain scarf not even covering her ears and her military beret and he has started to court marshal her. I thought the Defence Force is free from sexism, poor attitude towards women and is clam phobia. This Mr President is a blot on SONA