Hon member, small employment agencies in South Africa have a track record of decades of placing hundreds and thousands of South Africans in jobs. [Interjections.] [Applause.] They work efficiently to match demand with available skills. [Applause.] What you propose is to kill all of those businesses and replace them with a massive expanding government department. That is not job creation - that is tinkering disruptively.
Let me get back to the SMS quickly. The SMS said to me that the ANC has created jobs since 1994. The hon Nchabeleng tried to spin the same statistics today. The truth of the matter is that, one in three South Africans who are of economically active age are unemployed; three million of them have lost all hope of finding a job. They don't even look for a job any more because of the policies of this government. So, frankly, the SMS was grossly misleading.
The fact is, this Bill benefits big business and big labour. It is another demonstration that the ANC has become the party of big business and big labour working in unison to protect their elites. My party, the DA, stands up for entrepreneurs who work day and night to grow their business, stay competitive and create jobs. We stand by them and that is why we oppose this Bill. [Applause.]