Thank you, House Chair. Someone said to me that we are living in interesting times. No, I think we are living in very scary times. Over the last couple of months this House has sat through the President's state of the nation address and the Budget speech.
President Ramaphosa has spoken on more that one occasion of his dreams and the need to dream. Well, in order to dream you have to sleep and quite frankly with the current state of South Africa, how any member of this Cabinet can sleep is beyond me. They should be lying awake 365 days of the year
asking themselves what have we done? How did we end up in this unholy mess? Can we ever forgive ourselves?
Yes, I am aware that this debate is on Tuberculosis, TB, and the theme is; united in fighting Tuberculosis, TB. Just days before the global conference on this subject hosted right here in South Africa we are having an emergency sitting to get your approval. Really, does this indicate to the rest of the world that we are serious about this issue? 10 years ago we pleaded for a caucus to be established to discuss plan and to address the TB crisis in South Africa. Our plea fell on deaf ears ...