House Chair, Mr President and Mr Deputy President, is he in Moscow? While the President announced some laudable and notable objectives in his state of the nation address last Thursday, perhaps the most glaring disappointment was the way in which he simply glossed over the epidemic of crime sweeping our nation. Every single day across South Africa, while the President tells us to watch this space, 57 of our citizens are murdered, 137 women are sexually assaulted and 685 homes are violated. This is a national crisis on a grand scale. Our citizens are not safe in their