Hon President, hon Deputy President, hon Speaker, hon members and distinguished guests, February 3, 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Mbashe. Eventually Poqo, PAC, lost 12 of its cadres at the gallows. Msholozi Baba, as your government commemorates the raid on Liliesleaf Farm, please give a thought to the fallen heroes of Mbashe. Let us remember our heroes and heroines on nonpartisan lines.
The PAC wants to applaud you, Msholozi, regarding women's rights, especially the 50-50 approach. In this respect, the ruling party is streets ahead and it deserves compliments. [Applause.] In a country like ours, where women constitute 52% of the population, 50-50 is still an underrepresentation of the women. [Applause.] Legislation alone is not enough to liberate women from the yoke of male domination. A female inferiority complex and the male superiority complex cannot be legislated against. Yet, these are the two pillars of patriarchy. We have to work on our attitudes in our public and private lives.
On the mother of all questions, the land question, the PAC welcomes the reopening of the lodgement of restitution claims; lest we forget that every indigenous African is a legitimate land claimant, with or without documentary proof. Our DNA code is sufficient evidence. The kinky texture of our hair, our skin the colour of the night, and our click-rich languages should suffice as proof that Azania, in fact Africa, always was and always will be the land of the Africans, from Kemit to Azanj. [Applause.]
We welcome the departure from the willing-robber, willingly-robbed approach. [Laughter.] The PAC firmly believes that the land question cannot be resolved within the framework of the Constitution as it stands today. The Constitution itself blesses the colonial theft through the property clauses. Unless we change the Constitution, let's not promise the landless Africans delicious pie in the sky.
No African should be called a land grabber when they occupy the land of their ancestors. The land grabbers are those who are occupying the land because of the superiority of the firepower that their European forebears had over the spears and arrows of our forefathers. [Applause.] People must stop waving blood-stained title deeds each time the Africans demand what rightly belongs to them. Izwe Lethu! [Our Country!]
Hon President, your declaration of war on corruption rings hollow in the ears of the nation. On your watch, the poison of corruption is flowing thick in every artery of society, the state and the ruling party. Let me cite an example. You certainly know the Krok brothers, Solomon and Abraham. They always give money to your party and to individual leaders of the ruling party. During the days of apartheid they made their fortune by manufacturing skin-whitening chemicals, which they sold as skin care products. They rode on the wave of white supremacy that viewed blacks as inferior and the Africans as subhuman beings.
The Krok brothers, more than anyone alive today, benefited from apartheid. These days, they parade themselves before the world as the brains behind the idea of the Apartheid Museum. We all know that the Apartheid Museum was originally conceived by Mike Stainbank. They stole the concept from him, aided and abetted by the untransformed and white supremacist judiciary and the ruling party.
It's like having the Nazis claiming that they conceived the idea of memorialising Holocaust victims. The Africans were the victims of the Krok brothers' chemical warfare. They still are, because those chemicals left lifetime scars, physical and mental.
Hon President, Sterkspruit is on fire. Your speedy intervention will help to normalise the situation. Businesses have ground to a halt. On Friday last week the police shot dead Wele Mgoqi, a 16-year old- schoolboy who was doing Grade 6 in Qobosheane. He was shot in the head twice. The people of Sterkspruit, Eastern Cape, are sick and tired of corrupt councillors and skewed service delivery.
Mohlomphegi President, thuto e bohlokwa. Mathomo a thuto ke polelo. Re le ba mokgahlo wa PAC ya Azania, re ka thaba ge barutwana ba ka ithuta ka polelo ya ka gae. Go ne le batho ba ba naganago gore ge o bolela Seisimane, o hlalefile. Ba lebala gore digaswi le ditlaela t?a Engelane di bolela Seisemane ka dinko. Dihlalefi le boramahlale ba Afrika ya bogologolo, ba ba agilego dipyramid, ba be ba sa tsebe Seisimane.
Bjale Morw'a Nxamalala, Msholozi o mobotse ko?eng, a re bolele dipolelo t?a gabo rena gobane ke seshego ebile ke mohlodi wa set?o sa rena Ma-Afrika. Mohlomphegi Seboledi, Morw'a Xhamela, mot?wa gabo ga a laele. Ditsela di wela kgwahlana. Ke a leboga. (Translation of Sepedi paragraphs follows.)
[Hon President, education is important, and for someone to be educated they have to learn how to speak first. As members of the PAC of Azania, we would appreciate it if the learners could be taught in their home language. There are people who are still thinking that it is a sign of status to speak English. They are forgetting that there are mad people and stupid people in England who are also speaking English fluently. There are wise and clever African people who built pyramids long ago, but they could not speak English.
Nxamalala, Msholozi (clan names), the one who is good at singing, let us speak our home languages because they are our heritage and they also form part of the African culture. Hon Speaker, Nxamalala, I will stop here. Thank you.]