Chair, this debate is very timely. It goes to the core of the economic heartbreak we are currently experiencing. I say "heartbreak" deliberately, because no one finds any joy in seeing the ANC slowly but steadily destroying South Africa's economy. And "destroy" is exactly the right word. [Interjections.]
The ANC's policy agenda, typified by this report, is actively destroying jobs in South Africa. Furthermore, it is actively discouraging investment. When a government takes decisions that discourage investment and place obstacles in the way of growth, then that government is effectively boycotting its basic mandate. It is boycotting growth and job creation.
There is only one possible outcome of the ANC's current economic policy agenda: more unemployment, more poverty and more economic decline. That, in turn, means that the ANC will never be able to satisfy the expectations of its voters, and so, inevitably, it will lose a democratic election.
HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear!