Speaker, back in 1993, Nelson Mandela told us that the ANC may well do to us what the apartheid regime did to us. That is what Nelson Mandela said. Hardly anyone of us could believe it, but today, as I stand here, I can hardly believe what is being done in the name of the ANC. [Interjections.]
Here is an Act, put in place by the National Party of old, intended to protect their state institutions because, at the time, the aim of the guerrillas was to attack state institutions, and not citizens. Therefore, in order to do that, they wanted to protect state institutions. What we see now is that that legislation, intended at the time by the National Party to protect state institutions, is now being used to advance corruption.
Now, public funds are being used to put in place and give an inheritance to those who happen to have occupied an office for a while. Why is it that President Nelson Mandela's private home did not become a national key point? Why is it that the homes of President Mbeki did not become national key points? Why is it that the homes of all the others did not? [Interjections.] And that, for this one, this particular one, huge amounts of public funds are being put into that?
The Waterkloof Air Force Base, the prime air force base of our nation, is not a national key point, but Nkandla, a private home, is a national key point!
Nothing can be more ridiculous than the fact that we are faced with an administration that is determined to enrich itself in the limited period of time it is in power. Again, we must say here that all of us who want justice feel that there is a need to scrap this legislation; there is a need to introduce new legislation. Let us say that it is a commendable initiative that one of the opposition parties, the DA, has taken the initiative to begin to put this in front of the people. [Applause.]
Men and women who are committed to corruption will condemn those who stand for what is right, trying to intimidate those who stand for what is right by referring to questions of colour and things like that. You have come to a point in this country when you are faced with a nation that fought apartheid, disregarding race. Today, we will fight corruption, disregarding race.
Men and women on this side of the House, who are opposed to your corruption, must never be shy to say that you are perpetrating the worst things against the people of South Africa. [Applause.] The poor of this country are left without food, without jobs and without everything, whilst you batten on this. It is the same, as we said yesterday, with you stealing money, doing all sorts of corruption, removing the credit card, and keeping yourselves in place. This kind of thing is not going to blind anybody.
Asikhumbuzeni abantu baseNingizimu Afrika, masibakhumbuze ukuthi wathi uMandela, "uma nisibona senza lento nisikhiphe embusweni ... [Ubuwelewele.] [Uhleko.] [Ihlombe.] (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[Let us remind South Africans that Mandela said, "if you see us doing that you must remove us from power ..." [Interjections.] [Laughter.] [Applause.]]