Thobela ...
English:
Had the President of our country attended this sitting and I wish he had, I would have risen to say to him; Mr President, I thank you but blame you. I thank you for having given us this Minister of Finance who has risen to acknowledge momentous challenges that our country faces, but I blame you for those problems faced by our people. I would have said to him that unemployment will rise as state-owned entities kick out our people. I would have said to him that workers here ... [Inaudible.] ... state will be kicked out. I would have said to him that workers, for example, at the South African Airways, SAA, and elsewhere will loose their jobs from this week.
I would have said to him that you promised the people of South Africa that there will be free quality education, which is not the case because, for example, more than a
million children go into grade 1 but only 500 000 write matric. There is no proper health system, no electricity, etc. I would have said to him that, Mr President, we say that bureaucracy is big and the Ministry and your party here, has risen to say, yes, this is correct. However, you are the problem, Mr President, because you have put into place an extensive, extremely big and the biggest executive in our country. That is a follow up to what Mr Zuma has done.
Under, Mandela, under Thabo Mbeki, we had less than 30 Ministers but we now have four rugby teams that form the executive. I here speak of the Ministers and the Deputy Ministers who get more than R2,5 million per year and we are talking about more than R4 billion. When we talk about the creation of jobs etc, we can't, because all these monies that is exactly where it is going. We have amongst others some of the Ministers who buy cars for more than R1 million. We can mention their names. You, Mr President, are going on to keep these people here. Some of the Deputy Ministers we don't even know them. These are the people who have lots of money, who have many houses in Pretoria and in Cape Town, lots of expensive
furniture ... [Time expired.] ... many body guard and we are not getting anywhere. Mr President, I blame you. We can't go on like that.