... provided that such measures are in keeping with the limitations clause. [Applause.] The question is: Why would the Leader of the Opposition tell such a demonstrably blatant untruth? Perhaps it was not the President playing a game of smoke and mirrors, but rather the hon Mazibuko trying to create the smokescreen referred to by President Nelson Mandela in his statement to the ANC's Bill of Rights Conference in 1991. He said:
A simple vote, without food, shelter and health care is to use first- generation rights as a smokescreen to obscure the deep underlying forces which dehumanise people. It is to create an appearance of equality and justice, while, by implication, socioeconomic inequality is entrenched.
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Of course, President Mandela understood first-, second- and third- generation rights not as opposites, but as complementary, mutually interdependent and reinforcing. [Interjections.]