Voorsitter, die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste is 'n baie belangrike departement wat die taak het om seker te maak dat die burgers daar buitekant veilig is, omdat die mense wat in die tronk behoort te wees wel in die tronk is en dat daar nie gebeur waarna verwys is met die moord op dr Heyns nie.

Om dit moontlik te maak, het 'n mens baie bekwame amptenare nodig in die departement wat weet wat hulle moet doen. Ek weet daar is ook baie bekwame amptenare in die departement, en daarvoor het die departement wat hy noem 'n billike en gelyke indiensnemingsplan. {Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.} [Dr C P MULDER: Chair, the Department of Correctional Services is a very important department which has the duty to ensure that the citizens out there are safe because those people who need to be in prison should indeed be there and that nothing takes place as was mentioned with regard to the murder on Dr Heyns.

To achieve this one needs many capable officials in the department who know what they should do. I am aware that there are many capable officials in the department, and in order to operate efficiently the department has what it refers to as a fair and equitable employment plan.]

But we have a problem.

Daardie plan is nie billik nie, en hy is ook nie gelyk nie. Op hierdie oomblik is daar minderhede - wit- en bruinmense - wat amptenare in die departement is wat daardie departement na die hof moet neem, omdat hulle nie aangestel word nie aangesien daar teen hulle gediskrimineer word, omdat hulle wit en bruin is. Wat doen die departement? Hy gebruik fondse uit hierdie begroting wat ons vandag moet goedkeur om die duurste advokate aan te stel om hand en tand te veg dat daardie mense nie bevorder word in die departement nie. Dis totaal onaanvaarbaar. Ons sal nie die departement se begrotingpos kan ondersteun nie. Baie dankie. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)

[That plan is not fair, and also not equal. At this moment there are minorities - white and coloured people - who are officials in the department who have to take that department to court, because they are not appointed because they are discriminated against because they are white and coloured. What is the department's reaction? It uses funds from this budget which we have to approve today in order to appoint the most expensive advocates to fight tooth and nail that those people are not promoted in that department. That is totally unacceptable. We will not be able to support the department's budget vote. Thank you.]