Ke a leboga Mmusakgotla, maloko a Ntlo e kgolo e, mo boemong jwa mokgatlho wa ANC ke rata go leboga Maaforika Borwa otlhe a a dirileng go tlala seatla gore demokerasi ya rona e tie, le gore naga ya rona e ntle, ya molalatladi, e gole, mo dingwageng di le sometlhano tse di fetileng.
E ne e se phoso gore bagaetsho ba re Freedom Charter ke se re tla tshelang le sona dingwagangwaga. Tota e fetogile nnete 100%, tota ke dira phoso, tla ke re 120% gore Freedom Charter e be e bua dilo tse di amang batho ba rona; tseo di kayang gore batho ba rona ba tshwanetse go nna le botshelo jo bo botoka, eseng metlholo e e dirilweng mo dingwageng di le makgolo a mararo tse di fetileng tsa gore batho ba bo rona ba sotliwe; se se dirwang ba sa gopolwe, ba gopolwa fela fa ba fiwa masaledi a a sa ba kgotsofatseng.
Gompieno ga ke tle go bua ka dipalopalo. (Translation of Setswana paragraphs follows.)
[Ms L L MABE: Thank you, Madam Speaker and members of this august House. On behalf of the ANC I would like to thank all South Africans who worked hard to strengthen our democracy, and who enabled our beautiful rainbow nation to grow in the past fifteen years.
It was not a mistake for our people to say that the Freedom Charter is something we will live with for years. That turned out to be a reality of 100% - pardon me, I'm making a mistake, let me say 120% precisely - that the Freedom Charter refers to the things that concern our people, those that mean that our people should have a better life, not the ridiculous things that were done in the past 300 years of abuse. They were only considered when they received the leftovers which did not even satisfy them.
Today I am not going to talk about figures.]
I am not going to talk about figures, but about what concerns our people. There are those who know that I like figures but today I am not in the mood. I just want to state forthrightly that beautiful and great ideas and plans cannot be fulfilled without financial resources.
The enthusiasm and the political will are what we need to ensure that every year, when the Minister of Finance presents the Budget, it will be able to achieve the best for our people. I repeat: "political will" to ensure that wherever we are deployed in particular by this great movement, which is a congress of the people - the real congress of the people - we will do our best to ensure that our people have a better life. [Applause.]
There is a tendency in certain corners to isolate Comrade Trevor Manuel, the Minister of Finance, from the ANC, from ANC government. I don't know where this comes from. Comrade Trevor, the Minister of Finance ... [Interjections.]