Agb Adjunkspeaker, laat ek dan in my moedertaal praat. Ek is nie Engelssprekend nie. My moedertaal is Afrikaans. Ek het ges: Die agb Minister praat twak. Sy twak is nat. [Tussenwerpsels.] Hy weet nie waarvan hy praat nie. Dit is so eenvoudig soos dit. Ek sal dit nie terugtrek nie. Ons is politici en daar is baie mense wat partymaal ook vir my s dat ek nonsense praat, en ek moet dit kan hanteer. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[Dr P J GROENEWALD: Hon Deputy Speaker, let me speak in my mother tongue. I am not an English-speaking person. Afrikaans is my mother tongue. I said: "Die agb Minister praat twak. Sy twak is nat." [The hon Minister is talking nonsense. His powder is damp.] [Interjections.] He does not know what he is talking about. It is as simple as that. I will not withdraw it. We are politicians, and sometimes other people also tell me that I am talking nonsense, and I have to be able to deal with it.]