Speaker, I hope you will replace the minutes I have just lost. [Laughter.] The Auditor-General also revealed monumental losses as a result of fruitless and futile expenditure. In the 2009-10 to 2010-11 financial years an amount of R45 billion was wasted. The amounts of R20 billion in 2009-10 and R25 billion in the 2010-11 were squandered by this government. I sit here and think to myself, had this amount been used for bursaries, some 125 university students could have been funded for over three years. If you gave them half a bursary, 150 000 university students could have been supported and over that time South Africa could have produced civil engineers, mechanical engineers, doctors and so on. But instead what happened to that money? It ended up in the pockets of friends, family and the favoured ones. [Interjections.]
All these corrupt people who are there do not know anything about the work that they are supposed to be doing, let alone to look after the resources of our nation. Billions of rands! This is money! It doesn't fall from the sky. That is what Shabir Shaik asked. Does he think that this money falls from the trees? [Laughter.] So this money is being lost in this way. I am talking about billions of rands. In the meantime there are people who go to bed without food; children are born in shacks in Khayelitsha, in the middle of water in winter. [Interjections.] In the meantime there are old and young, because the money has been squandered by you. [Interjections.]