South Africans, what we are saying and are going to continue to say to you is that we have taken on the responsibility to make sure that we create the Southern African Development Community Brigade, which is your responsibility as members of the Defence Force. You have the responsibility to create a Pan African military force, where our honourable Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is presiding. Those responsibilities are going to go ahead. We will give you the support.
We do understand that without South Africans in the multilateral structures in which we are engaged, we won't be able to assist you to become leaders in the military on the African continent. We will give you our support. We understand very squarely that we have the responsibility, as our members have been pointing out, on the peacekeeping missions. That is a new development and we will be able to deal with that in relation to the type of resources that should be given.
The ANC is fully responsible, and fully behind you. We will always be behind you, because we created these types of policies. We did not make a noise, but created policies and we are reflecting on them. As the Ministry said, we will continue to improve the Defence Review, because it is our responsibility as Members of Parliament. We are not going to shrink from that responsibility.
Our conferences in Mangaung and Limpopo have directed us what to do. We will give our responsibility to that. That is where our loyalty lies. Our loyalty is not based on the noise that you make in Parliament. We know where we are coming from. We know how far we have travelled with hon Minister Mapisa-Nqakula, and we are not going to shrink from that responsibility.
We know how much we have contributed to saving the lives of our people. The ANC supports the Budget Vote. [Time expired.] [Applause.]