Mr Speaker, Mr President, I think most South Africans saw the high-level dialogue as another talk shop full of vague commitments. We heard a rehash of the same old stories about the infrastructure programme, the Expanded Public Works Programme, the Jobs Fund as well as a recap of Minister Patel's ideas on youth unemployment that make a point of leaving out the youth wage subsidy. However, the only new message that came through clearly was your call to chief executive officers, CEOs, to impose a freeze on salaries to tackle inequality.
Mr President, today you have had much to say on leadership, but do you not feel that if you are asking executives in South Africa to hold back, you should demonstrate your own commitment to spending restraint by putting a freeze on the R250 million to be spent on your compound at Nkandla? [Interjections.] [Applause.]