Well, if I understood the speaker, he is actually raising issues about how great a lack of understanding there is regarding what we are doing, which leads to questions that, when they are asked, the owners tend to disown when they are answered, and where they themselves may not be very, very clear about what they were asking. He was just making a very important point. I agree with the point. [Interjections.] [Laughter.]
Necessity of affirmative action and BEE against background of President's promise to help white people
6. Adv A de W Alberts (VF Plus) asked the President of the Republic:
In light of his visit to white squatter camps in Pretoria in 2009 and his promise to help them, why are measures such as (a) affirmative action and (b) Black Economic Empowerment that impoverishes white people still necessary when statistics indicate that more black people own property than white people do and that an equal number of black and white people own shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange?