We need to break economic dependency by thinking much more aggressively about plans that target the relocation of production itself. This is what the EFF means by protected industrial development - produce ICT electronics locally and protect them.
Foxconn, the Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, has set up a plant in Brazil, for example, and has created employment for local Brazilians, including engaging in skills transfer. Why don't we engage these multinationals with sound deals of industrial protection and benefits, with the condition of local production and skills transfer?
Usaasa has been given a total of R1,3 billion as a subsidy for the roll-out of set-top boxes for needy families or households. All these will be produced outside South Africa. Usaasa still has to tell us how it will distribute them and whether it has identified those households. However, all these set-top boxes come from outside, while there is a real opportunity for local production.
Finally, Chair, on a much more important note, the Post Office, by the way, is complicit in the oppression and killing of Palestinians. Its employment of G4S means we are directly supporting a company that guards the apartheid wall in the West Bank, and runs prisons that hold underage children and Palestinian political prisoners without trial. Two years ago, the workers of the Post Office asked this department and the Post Office to immediately divest, and stop its contract with G4S in order to honour, protect and advance Palestinian freedom. [Time expired.] I thank you. [Applause.]