Sihlaloa ohloniphekileyo, uMnu UMaynier, uyabathanda abantu bakowabo. Ingxaki ke ngoku ndiza kuthetha isiXhosa esintsokothileyo esi siza kumenza angayiva le nto ndiza kuyithetha.
Isizathu sokuba ohloniphekileyo, uMnu Maynier, aziphathe ngolu hlobo - yiyo loo nto ndisithi kukuba uyabathanda abantu bakowabo. - bBabini kuphela abantu abaphaya kuMkhosi woKhuselo abanike ikhefu elikhethekileyo abemnye owakuthi. Yonke into engalunganga nembi kubo kufanele ukuba yenziwa ngumntu omnyama. Ukuba ngumntu omhlophe owenze into engalunganga ... (Translation of isiXhosa paragraphs follows.)
[Ms N R MABEDLA: Hon Chairperson, Mr Maynier likes his own people. The problem is that now I am going to speak the version of isiXhosa that will be too complex for him to understand.
The reason hon Mr Maynier behaves the way he does is because he likes his own people. Of the three people in the Defence Force that he gave special leave, only one was black. Everything that is wrong and that is bad is attributed to a black person. If it is a white person that has done wrong ...]
... it is nice and good.
Ndizama ukutsho ke malungu ahloniphekileyo. [That's what I'm trying to say, hon members.]
As I make a call for the resourcing of the Air Force function, in particular, I shall in the same vein point out without fear of contradiction that, external to the framework of our negotiated settlement, the need still exists to deepen the transformation of the Defence Force. By transformation I refer to the formal and substantive components thereof, because it is our conviction that there is always a dialectic link between form and substance. Substance exists in a commensurate form as much as form shapes and comports substance in its particular and generic characteristics.
Our posture in terms of peacekeeping missions is underpinned by the Freedom Charter's unequivocal clarion call for South Africa to strive to maintain world peace and the settlement of all international disputes by negotiation, not war. The Freedom Charter further asserts that peace and friendship amongst all our people shall be secured by upholding the equal rights, opportunities and status of all.
To illustrate the point I am making, allow me to take you down memory lane. The ANC took up arms against the unruly and aggressive apartheid regime in 1961. Even as it consolidated the armed struggle as one of the pillars of the national democratic struggle in Morogoro in 1969, the ANC has always been about saving lives, not destroying them. The ANC has, even before the abolition of the death penalty by the Constitutional Court, bowed to the entrenchment of the right to life in the Constitution. [Interjections.]
The mission and force design of the SA Defence Force, SADF, was to squash the activities of liberation movements in general and the ANC in particular. It is trite to mention that the SADF became a destabilising force in the region, in particular, and on the continent, in general. I want to assure South Africans, in particular, and Africans, in general, that when South Africa undertakes peace missions, she does so in order to bring stability to the region and the continent. She seeks only prosperity and peace for the African.
Phambi kokuba ndigqithe, mandibuyele kumnumzana uNhanha we-Cope. Umnumzana uNhanha we-Cope uthi akasoze aluxhase olu yoHlahlo-lwabiwo-mali. Asothukanga ... [Now let me come to hon Nhanha from Cope, who said he was not going to support this budget. We are not surprised ...]