Yes, hon member, that is a special case and we would like South Africans to understand it. I was in Hazyview and saw it with my own eyes. Fortunately, I also worked in Bushbuckridge in 1985 and saw what happened.
During the Mozambican National Resistance, Renamo, and Mozambique Liberation Front, Frelimo, war, lots of people from Mozambique came to South Africa. They now have been there for about 40 to 45 years. They are virtually South Africans. There is no question about it. Many of them don't even know where Mozambique is. They are around the area of Bushbuckridge.
We are busy preparing a memorandum which must go to Cabinet, which must allow us to naturalise them immediately so that this problem comes to an end. Whether we like it or not, they aren't going anywhere. Presently, in Mpumalanga alone, there are 57 000 school kids who aren't documented. We said all of them must be at school.
The process that we are engaged with in Bushbuckridge with the Cabinet will find them at school already. They are not going to be a problem after this circular by the Minister of Basic Education. Once the Cabinet discusses this memorandum, anybody who came from Mozambique 45 years ago and stayed around Bushbuckridge ... but we are busy processing them because we aren't opening this to anybody but them only. We need to get profiles of each
one of them. Who came when because amongst them are those that their grandfathers are the ones who came here. The Cabinet will pass the memorandum and give them the naturalised status. Thank you very much. [Applause.]