Thank you, hon member. In terms of current employment levels, in automotive assembly we have 35 000 people employed and in components manufacturing we have 70 000 people employed. In the service industry of the automotive sector we have 100 000 people employed.
While I cannot give you figures of the sorts of employment levels that we would expect to attain, let's say over the period for which we intend to double the volume of production, I think from the current employment trends it should be expected that we would be able to generate a lot more employment across the entirety of the value chain in automotive assembly and in components manufacturing, especially where we are growing the manufacture of components locally, as well as in the service industry because the size of the sector will actually be expanding.
Progress made to stop the eviction and violation of farmworkers
324. Mr D M Dlali (ANC) asked the Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs:
What progress has been made to stop (a) the eviction of farmworkers by white farmers in particular since a nongovernmental organisation's report on the matter on which the media reported and (b)(i) the human rights violations and (ii) beating of farmworkers by white farmers in northern KwaZulu-Natal (details furnished)?