House Chairperson, from the beginning the ACDP has been one of the parties that called on everybody for every day to be Mandela Day; where helping others would become a way of life, because we all agree that Mandela's exemplary leadership of caring for others should spur us all on to do more. We should also move away from greed, selfishness, nepotism, corruption and the temptation to care only for our own communities while neglecting others.
It is in light of the above that I find plans to spend more than R1 billion of taxpayers' money on building a new town in Nkandla to be reckless and insensitive to the suffering of our people. Millions of South Africans still do not have access to basic services, such as water, proper sanitation and electricity, and thousands of schoolchildren still do not have textbooks and school buildings. Former President Mandela cared for all the people of this country and not just for those from Qunu or the Eastern Cape. Therefore, the ACDP calls on this government - which is planning to do something that, I believe, Mr Mandela would not want us to do - to stop the plan that they are trying to implement and rather use that money to build more much-needed schools and houses for the homeless and to give all our people access to clean water, proper sanitation and electricity.