Hon member, earlier on in the life of our democracy, we hosted the Rugby World Cup the finals of which are going to be played in France on Saturday, this time around. During that time in 1995, we were able to host that tournament and we were able to provide protection for that tournament and as a consequence of that, we were asked again to host another world cup tournament when, in 2003, we hosted the Cricket World Cup.
Apart from that, in 1996, again - this was earlier on in the life of our democracy - we were asked to host the African Cup of Nations. Again, we provided very good protection for that tournament.
Now, between 1995 and 2003, crime levels were higher than the situation is today, but we were able not only to give good protection to those events but, in fact, we protected the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. The United Nations, coming as they did from Seattle - do you remember the problems of Seattle, Genoa and Melbourne - to South Africa, found that whereas in Seattle, Genoa and Melbourne there were big problems, in South Africa we were able to provide significant and effective protection. The United Nations asked us to assist in training people for the purposes of that kind of protection.
I want to say to you that we are not going to do anything new, except that this time around we are going to be assisted by the various nations of the world to protect 2010. To go around raising statistics of this, that and the other is not part of that plan. [Applause.]