Motlatsa Sepikara, Maloko a hlomphehileng a Ntlo ena ya Ketsamolao, ke a le dumedisa. Ke ema mona ke le motlotlo, ke le e mong wa ditho tse tharo tse kgethilweng ke ANC ho tla fana ka maikutlo a rona sehlohong sena sa bohlokwa. ANC e sa ntse e tla busa. (Translation of Sesotho paragraph follows.)
[Mr A D MOKOENA: Deputy Speaker, hon members of the National Assembly, I greet you all. I stand before you with pride as one of the three members chosen by the ANC to give our opinion on this topic. The ANC is here to stay and rule.]
The ANC is here to stay and rule. I must at the outset congratulate the hon member of Cope, hon Koornhof, for raising this very important subject. A very good example has been set by the President of the country, His Excellency Jacob Zuma, together with Minister Malusi Gigaba, when they publicly said that they appealed and issued a clarion call that there should be a moratorium, a freeze, on these obscene salaries of executives. I think what this House must do now is to give the President a rousing applause because he has shown leadership. [Interjections.] [Applause.] The President has already shown leadership. So we are taking our cue from him. It shows that the ANC lives and the ANC leads. [Interjections.]
I was supposed to sweep now, but there is very little to sweep because we are all in agreement about the obscenity of executives' salaries. I am quickly going to make a few remarks. Firstly, Dr Ambrosini, we missed you in the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises. I respect you as a lawyer; you have a good legal brain, but you surprised me when you acted like a spoilt brat when you clashed with the previous chairperson of the portfolio committee, hon Vytjie Mentoor. You then showed us "a clean pair of heels" and ran away. So we missed your input.
Mr Alberts, a member of the FF Plus, we hardly see you. You only came in once to "loer" [peep] - you peeped while we were discussing the [Inaudible.] ... [Interjections.]