No! [Laughter.] A realistic and a practical solution is for the government to expropriate land without compensation and distribute it equally amongst the most deprived African communities who are desperately in need of land. [Interjections.]
Again, the notion that the National Development Plan, NDP, is the hope for addressing the South African human settlement problem, now and in the future, is a pure fallacy. [Interjections.]
Today we still have many South Africans on the 1996 waiting list, which is, in essence, a false promise. People in the Eastern Cape's Nelson Mandela region, Silvertown informal settlement, Kwazakhele and other parts of the country, have been desperately waiting for houses for almost more than 20 years and nothing has been forthcoming.
To claim to deliver housing according to the NDP is just playing with people's feelings. Certainly, the NDP is only a ploy that seeks to make false propositions. South Africans are anxiously waiting for quality, spacious, efficient and sustainable housing. The impression ...