Madam Speaker I want to congratulate you and the Deputy for your election this afternoon and I want to promise you that I will behave. Mr President I remember 25 years ago when we first arrived in this House. There was a relatively young man who was leading us in writing the final constitution,
and that was you. I'm not saying you're not young anymore [Laughter.] During that time Mr President, we were in a country with unprecedented hope. We only wanted the best for our country. In fact the whole world joined us to bring an end to racial division and class division. Now, following a decade of despair, the formally young man that he turns to Parliament to lead us but what is way down on you Mr President, is the expectation of our people. The expectation that we will see a mature government, a government of integrity, a government that can deliver better services, that can deal with inequality and injustices. So, I would like to congratulate you Mr President on your election of the first office of our land. And I want to offer to you the support of GOOD and the love of GOOD. The love is not unconditional Mr President. You may get unconditional love from that side of the House but we would like to see the whole government accountable in a constructive way. In a way that can build this country to ensure that the most vulnerable and the poor people in our country deserve better I think the elected has spoken and we must respect that. I do hope that we can all agree that it's unacceptable that we had such a low voted turnout. And we must interrogate why, because God forbid,
if 25 years into our new democracy many of our people decide to stay at home. So, I'm sure Mr President we can progress by bringing and making our people more responsive to our democracy and participating and as GOOD we will be there to help. May God bless Africa and may God bless the leaders of Africa. I thank you.