Speaker, the national minimum wage was from the very start rushed not properly thought through and did not take into account the opinion of stakeholders. As a result, the Bill is badly written as a number of mistakes which is why it had to be amended less than a year after the President signed it. Most importantly, this Bill does not guarantee a living wage and dignity for the South African worker. Anybody who thinks that a R20 minimum wage is acceptable is deluded and has never had to face a pain of working and giving all for 12 hours and yet you still end up seeing your family go hungry. That is nothing more than glorified slavery.
The National Minimum Wage Bill is a microcosm of the ANC rule for the last 25 years. The ANC with their fake communists, you talk left and you walk right. [Laughter.] You claim that this Bill and their original act will serve the interest of the working class, but in reality it will ensure that capital in South Africa will continue to have access, to cheap and expandable black labour under the guise of radical rhetoric. However, the ruling