The key question or challenge facing our democracy is the continued resistance to or lack of fundamental transformation in socioeconomic power relations, the relations of production or the ownership of the means of production. Poverty, unemployment and inequality remain the burden of the African people in general and the working class in particular.
These challenges are what should be at the centre of our work here. The politricks and unseemly conduct that sometimes plays itself out in this House does not advance the struggle to realise the promise of freedom, that is, a fundamental change in the material conditions of our people.
Yes, the revolutionary morality enjoins us to serve the people wholeheartedly, guided by the Leninist dictum of ``Everything for the people and nothing against the people.'' It enjoins us to fight against corruption and the waste of public resources for the struggle to improve the welfare and wellbeing of the people. That struggle - that gigantic struggle - should not be clouded by these sorts of debates we are having now. I thank you. [Applause.]