Hon Chairperson, today I will be concentrating on the Minister and her department's achievements. At a fundraiser for the ANC, they successfully sold the then director-general for R100 000 and the Minister for R250 000.
They achieved a hotel bill of R1,54 million in one year. They achieved chartered flights for R1,64 million in one year. They achieved wasteful and fruitless expenditure, for example the R36 million spent on the Makhathini Cotton Gin, which still led to 62 000 jobs lost downstream. They succeeded in placing the poultry industry under serious threat due to the one million chickens imported into this country every day. They achieved placing the potato processing industry in crisis.
This department further succeeded in failing the red meat industry. They achieved doing nothing about the R430 million a year lost due to stock theft. Furthermore, they achieved nothing when it came to the R1,3 billion loss in relation to predators. They failed to monitor the high levels of brine injected into chickens that actually causes health risks. [Interjections.] I will get to you now, Chairperson.
They succeeded in ensuring that South Africa lost its foot-and-mouth disease-free status, but to the ANC government it's a joke. They also failed to establish the independent meat inspection services. I want to ask the Chairperson how it is possible that the National African Farmers' Union, Nafu, got a meeting after they paid with nine sheep and one cow.