Thank you, Chairperson. I would like to address one specific point, namely the department's implementation of its affirmative action programme. Clearly, we also have a problem with regard to this aspect.
On 25 April 2013, there was a Member's Statement in the House and in his response the hon Minister said the following:
Nowhere in the Employment Equity Act does it say that there shall be an ethnic group preference area.
That is what the Minister said; and that is his point of view.
Then he said that all people are going to have equal access to promotion everywhere. Now, we clearly all know that that is not the case.