Thank you, Chair. What I would like to say to the other speakers in the debate is that, yes, as the Speaker said, we must all join hands in fighting child and women abuse and we have a national 365-day plan, as the ANC spokesperson said.
However, what have we done in this country over the last few years? Despite all this fanfare of 16 days of activism and the 365-day action plan, we actually scrapped the very units that were there to investigate cases of abuse and rape against women and children - the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences, FCS, units.
Why did we scrap them when they were doing an excellent job in investigating the rape of women and children? What we need to do - it is a pity the Minister is not here - is to reestablish these units, as I have said before, and strengthen the sexual offences courts so that specialised prosecutors and magistrates that deal with children's cases in particular can work together and develop places where children can give evidence from behind a one-way mirror or a CCTV camera so that they are not intimidated by seeing the person who actually abused or raped them. I think we need to look at these aspects a lot more seriously as Members of Parliament and forget about party politics, please. Let's get specialised units for children. Thank you very much. [Applause.]