Mr Speaker, let us say from this side of the House that we congratulate and welcome the fact that Dr Dlamini-Zuma is now the chairperson of the AU Commission, and we will pay appropriate tribute to her next week in the House, I gather. My question to the President is this: If she is going to succeed - and we want her to succeed - we have to surround her with competent, capable people who can do the job. The problem with that is that the salaries that are attached to the posts there are less than salaries that adequate people would earn in South Africa or maybe other African countries.
What are we going to do in that regard to make sure that she is appropriately empowered with staff? How can we do that when African countries as a whole are not actually contributing towards the AU budget? Only 40% of the AU budget comes from African countries. And I would be very careful about fighting with the EU and other countries because the EU, America and, in fact, China contribute the other 60% of the AU budget.
So, what we have to do, and that is my other question to you, Mr President, is to fundamentally restructure the financing of the AU so that Africans make contributions to the governance of their continent, and we in South Africa have to lead in that context. In so doing we will empower Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to actually play the role that she needs and/or we need her to play. Thank you. [Applause.]