Hon Speaker, from what one is hearing here, the ANC is concerned, because it would appear as if the opposition actually wants to throw out the Constitution of our country now. You want to throw out the equality clause. That is what the equality clause is saying and that is what the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Bill is giving effect to. [Interjections.] In fact, what it is doing is actually putting down the legislation in support of the Constitution that demands that there be legislation that spells this out very clearly. May I read just one aspect of the equality clause in section 9 here in our Constitution? It says:
(5) Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.
The reason why you are all in the papers these days, in an internecine party battle in the DA, is because your own party members disagree with you. They do, and you know it. [Applause.]
Secondly, you are shifting members all over the committees because you are trying to drumbeat what amounts to a British conservative policy in our Parliament. In addition, you have the nerve to bring back this Bill after saying you agreed with it in one party, and what do you say now? What do you say here? You say that you want to omit Parliament and let us specify each little House. How many Houses has Parliament got? Two! Of course, the British conservatives continue to think that there is one House, and you are taking your cue from them.
The ANC continues to support the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Bill, and as for these technical amendments, they are superfluous. If the Auditor-General was here, he would say they were fruitless. Thank you. [Interjections.] [Applause.]