I'm not going to talk about Cope today because the whole of Cope is sub judice. [Laughter.] I may be accused of contempt of the Gauteng High Court. [Laughter.] The reason why the DA says that the President has not achieved anything is because all these things we are talking about here mean nothing to your constituency, because you represent the elite.
Abantu bakithi KwaDambuza babengazi ukuthi ugesi uyangena odakeni. Namhlanje bathi qhafa khona ezindlini zodaka; ugesi owafika noKhongolose [Ihlombe.] Uma ngabe vele wawudla izambane likapondo, lento yokuthi izingane zakithi azisakhokhi emanyuvesi nokuthi eziyizigidi eziyi-8,8 zidla ukudla ezikoleni ngeke kusho lutho kuwe ngoba nikhulumela abantu abadla izambane likapondo. Shenge, angithandi kube sengathi njalo uma ngikhuluma la kufanele ngikuphendule, kodwa ezinye zezinto kufanele zishiwo. (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[Our people in KwaDambuza did not know that their mud houses can be electrified. Today, they can switch on the electricity in their mud houses - the electricity that came with the ANC. [Applause.] If you come from a rich background, the fact that our children are now exempted from paying university fees and that 8,8 million of our children are being fed at school will mean nothing to you because you only represent the interests of the affluent people. Shenge, I do not appreciate that whenever I am speaking here, it is like I have to respond to you, but some things have to be said.]
We have made these advances because we defeated the apartheid regime and took up arms also, legitimately so. If we were to be faced with the same circumstances, we would do exactly the same that we did. [Applause.] My only concern is that I think it is improper and extremely opportunistic of the IFP to say that they did not appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, TRC, and its amnesty committee, yet they come and raise matters here that should have been raised through those processes. This is abuse of parliamentary privilege.
Uma ngabe nakhetha ukuthi ningayi kuKhomishana yamaQiniso nokuBuyisana, kufanele nithule nize nife ngezinto okwakufanele zixoxwe laphaya ngoba iPhalamende akuyona indawo yokuxoxa izinto okwakufanele zixoxwe kuKhomishana yamaQiniso nokuBuyisana. [Ihlombe.] (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[If you chose not to go to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, you must forever hold your peace about issues that should have been raised there, because Parliament is not a platform to raise issues that should have been raised at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. [Applause.]]