Mr Speaker, I'm really pleased to hear from the hon member of the IFP that what the leader of his party was doing was supporting small business in Cape Town by buying flowers on Valentine's Day. I think it is very commendable and I had no intention of criticising that noble act. I think it is good that we add that because we are able, as the ANC, to indicate the vast amount of things that we've been doing to support small business, build infrastructure and do a whole range of things. It's good to know that the IFP has also made a contribution, that of 15 bouquets of flowers, to the New Growth Path and development of South Africa. [Applause.]
The hon member obviously completely missed the point of what I said. By the way, I don't live in Rondebosch, but for security reasons, I'm not going to tell the IFP where I live. [Laughter.] It is an old habit, which may now be outdated but, certainly, back in the day, it was important not to reveal to the IFP where one lived.
The point of the gentle criticism I was making to the leader of your party was that he completely missed one of the key points that the President was making in the course of the state of the nation address. It was not about flowers. It was that, in the course of the state of nation address, he condemned - as the ANC does - the use of violence, the burning down of property, the killing of people in the course of strikes and other protests. That is what he said.
The leader of your party came out of the state of the nation address and told the public broadcaster that the President had failed to say anything of the sort. The key point I suggested is that the leader of the party should consider the Pope Benedict XVI option, and I would like to repeat that suggestion. [Applause.]