Hon Speaker, allow me to begin this afternoon by answering the hon Ngcobo's question. We love Madiba. [Interjections.] We join the President and the rest of the nation today in wishing him a speedy recovery. [Interjections.]
A very huge thing today is that we had the hon Motshekga talking about our "KnowYourDA" campaign pamphlets, and yesterday the hon Jeffery also alluded to it. We are delighted that people are reading the material. I hope people will be able to learn something. It was pamphlets yesterday, the YouTube video today!
I really think that the biggest problem is that the ANC is jealous, because they cannot implement their own "KnowYourDA" campaign. [Interjections.] This is for a simple reason: They would not be able to decide which ANC to do the "know your ANC" campaign on. [Applause.] [Interjections.]
Would it be the rabid left of Nzimande, the SACP and Cosatu, who hate the National development Plan, NDP? Would it be the national party leadership who sits on the ramp? Or would it be the market-centrists like hon Trevor Manuel, the hon former Minister of Finance, who loves the NDP? You can see that it is an impossible choice for the ANC. [Interjections.]
Perhaps this confusion is best illustrated today by what the President had to say about the unions. The President told the House today that the ANC does not pick sides, but a few weeks ago his Minister of Mining, the hon Shabangu, said that an attack on the National Union of Mineworkers, NUM, is an attack on the ANC. No wonder people in this country are calling it the "African National Confusion". [Interjections.]
The hon Manuel had a go at us about Khayelitsha. We say here today: Yes, hon Manuel, we will go with you to Khayelitsha, on one condition - that you join us on a tour of the rest of the provinces that are run by the ANC. [Interjections.] We will take you to the Eastern Cape, where children have to put up with those mud schools. They suffer under the yoke of the ANC's oppression. You have done nothing about it! [Interjections.]
Every single child in the Western Cape has a textbook in every single subject! [Applause.] [Interjections.] We cannot say the same about Limpopo, colleagues. [Applause.] Those children suffer under the tyranny of the ANC administration in Limpopo. [Interjections.] Perhaps when we are in Khayelitsha, we can visit the Centre of Science and Technology, Cosat, the seventh best performing school in the Western Cape, in Khayelitsha, under the DA! [Interjections.]