Cheers! [Laughter.] You never took part in the struggle when women were marching in 1956.
Hon Connie Diemu, you talk about many disabled children being denied their right to attend school. I would like to tell you, hon Diemu, that the Department of Basic Education has made great strides in the schooling system, in inclusive education, by having full-service schools in the nine provinces. I would say to you: Stop lamenting. It is time for you to go and read the reports on basic education, and you will find the truth there.
The DA talks about the wage Bill and about the department taking long with implementation. I am saying that as soon as the wage Bill is out, the line departments will get their frameworks, indicators and guidelines. Do not put the cart before the horse: you know that this is a process, but we will get there. At least something is being done. With you, nothing is done; women are just left in the veld.
As far as travelling is concerned, I hear you talking a lot and crying out that South Africa has gone with a large entourage, and you don't even know why that happened. Yes, we all acknowledge that there was a situation where overspending became the order of the day. You know just as well as we do that South Africa is not an island. As South Africans, we have international treaties and, as a result, we have to comply with those treaties. There is no way in which international events concerning women, children and people with disabilities can happen without South Africa being represented. The only thing for us to do is to look at the way we do things, things such as prioritisation and the number of people who go travelling. But we cannot sit down and say that we are not going.
I am pleased to announce to this House that this year, South Africa was able to produce a first report on women issues. It has complied with one of the expectations of the international conventions that we have. So, for you it seems as if everything is wrong and everything is blue. You don't see anything that shows life for us.
We have the National Council Against Gender-based Violence. I don't know why you are crying, because you are forever saying that there is no co- ordination and that we are working in silos. Now that the Minister has tried to introduce a body that will promote co-ordination, you ask how it can start. Why don't you adopt the saying that we will cross the bridge when we get to it, because she made it clear to you that she has asked for donors and, as we speak, she has received donor assistance. So, I don't know what it is with you. It is as if everything just has to be scratched, and you start nowhere. I don't think that is how life should be.
One other thing is that it seems as if you are forgetting that all the hardships and the inhibitors you are referring to are inherited from your legacy, which you are now supporting. This is the reason you become impatient, because the apartheid legacy ...