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Ntate Motau, morenaka, monokotshwai ha o butswe ho ya ka takatso ya tshwene. Batho ba Gauteng ba re ba eme tsii; ha ba sitinyehe, ntate! Lehae la bona le leholo ke mokgatlo o moholo wa ANC. [Mahofi.] Ba itse re o jwetse ba tlo o phoqa! (Translation of Sesotho paragraph follows.)
[Hon Motau, sir, things do not always happen the way we want them to. The people of Gauteng are standing firm; they are not going anywhere, sir! The ANC is their home. [Applause.] They said we should tell you that they are going to disappoint you!]
We must congratulate all voters for turning up during the by-elections that took place throughout the country. We must never take that matter for granted, because exercising their democratic rights is what we would like to see them doing every time.
We would also like to congratulate those who preferred and chose to give the ANC the majority in the outcomes of those by-elections. [Applause.] They certainly know what is best for them in our country, given the history. [Interjections.]
We must condemn, without hesitation, the killing of a councillor in Ulundi and others in our country. We hope that elections ...