I am very happy to withdraw the word "bunch". I think that the point is made, nonetheless. [Laughter.]
This brings me to Henry Kissinger - if we are talking about national sovereignty. Between 1969 and 1977, Kissinger - and I hope I have got some added time, because I was stopped there - played the leading role in US foreign policy. [Interjections.]
During this period, the United States developed a strategic perspective on Southern Africa. It does have everything to do with South Africa, as the "Tar Baby" option. It argued that the Portuguese colonial regimes in Mozambique and Angola, Ian Smith's regime in Rhodesia and the apartheid regime controlling Namibia and South Africa were all here to stay. These regimes, it argued, were the only effective agents for constructive change.
Last year, Premier Zille boasted that when the former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, visited South Africa in 2010, he asked to meet her. I am quoting from her speech:
He asked to meet me, to discuss the DA's growth, and he described our success [the DA's success] as a project of international significance.
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Deputy Chairperson, I rest my case. Thank you very much. [Applause.] [Interjections.]