Mr Speaker, the passage of this Bill has been procedurally questionable from about two weeks ago when the orders, obviously, went out from Luthuli House that it must be passed by the end of this Parliament. From the beginning of this process the ANC has drafted in new members into this committee who were chosen, not for their expertise on mining or on legislation, but for their ability to toe the ideological line of the ANC left-wing kleptocracy against all notions of reason.
These new players have had a huge influence on the proceedings of the committee. We have had a scramble of last minute amendments, suddenly summoned meetings and most recently a confused session where ANC members were effectively allowed to decide on what the DA's objection to this committee report should be.
Let me be clear, the DA stated the reason why it voted against each of the clauses it did vote against in committee sessions and this was not captured in the committee report which is a travesty. This report contains numerous mistakes; we counted at least 17 of them so far. This report even invents a new word which it uses frequently ... [Interjections.]