Iqiniso liyababa. [The truth is a bitter pill to swallow.]
It is not easy to accept. The problem is that if you want to say something, you should allow people to scrutinise what you have to say. If you want to scrutinise others, allow yourself to be scrutinised. That is what being in government means.
I want to speak on the issue of race. The ANC stands for a nonracial society. We have always stood for that. That is why we fought for South Africa to be a democratic society. [Applause.]
Hon Mnqasela, about the issue of young people becoming poorer and poorer, just like in Animal Farm: Today I am a black young woman who is proud of the ANC government. In the past I would not have been able to afford to buy a house. I would have been told that I was a dependant. I would not have been able to be here because my colour did not agree with that of others. I wouldn't have been able to afford to be where I am. That includes you, sir; as a black person, you wouldn't have been here, irrespective of whether you belong on that side or not.
It was the ANC that championed the democracy of this country for you to benefit as an individual. [Applause.] Before you stand up and talk about being poor and the differences, you should look back.
We need to reflect on where we come from. We can't deny that. I grew up in Soweto. Today you are saying that the ANC government should make sure that schools have facilities. You gave us those small schoolyards. Their old apartheid system gave us the schoolyards, which are so small that one couldn't even build a soccer field. [Interjections.]
What do you expect the ANC government to do? We are stuck with that township, with small schoolyards that are surrounded by buildings and houses. If you were to expand those schools to build laboratories and libraries, you would have to demolish the houses around them because there is no space. That is the result of the apartheid system.