Thank you very much. I just have a few brief responses. Firstly, I just want to explain to the hon McIntosh that the voters' roll will have two segments. The first would be for South Africans who reside in South Africa, and the second segment would be for those South African citizens who ordinarily do not reside in South Africa.
It is the citizens who live abroad who will be able to register for the elections at the missions of the South African Republic abroad. It is only this category that would be required to have an identity document and a passport to register. It is not the situation, as the hon member has alluded to, where people travel abroad but are ordinarily resident in the Republic.
Just to repeat the point that the hon Gaum and others have made, we have approximately 22 000 polling stations in and around the country, with about 23 million voters. Clearly, if one allows every voter who is outside their province to vote on the provincial ballot, the logistics of this exercise would be an absolute nightmare. The prospect of mistakes with regard to ballots getting lost in the post would be huge. Why on earth would we take something which is not broken and try to break it? [Interjections.]
For your information, hon member, we are in the business of running legitimate elections. If you allowed citizens who live abroad and have not lived here for many years to vote and to choose a provincial legislature that they wish to vote in, this could create huge opportunities for political parties to fix the outcomes of provincial elections. Let us be honest about it. [Applause.]
It is an open secret that the DA intends asking all of its supporters who reside overseas to vote on the Gauteng ballot. Plainly speaking, this is called vote rigging! Not in this country! [Time expired.] [Applause.]
Debate concluded.
Question put: That the Bill be read a second time.
Bill read a second time. (Democratic Alliance dissenting.)