Madam Deputy Speaker, I have two concerns which I would like the Minister to answer or respond to, if he wishes. The first one is in relation to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Bill that he has referred to. It underpins a very important debate that we are beginning to have here now, but it has been delayed in our portfolio committee for about two years, and we are going to deal with it next year, even though it has been ready at the departmental level, I understand, for three years and even though there is general recognition that it is an urgent Bill to complete the entire scheme of black economic empowerment. The concern is that it has been cynically delayed, so that the debate which will be developed around it will shape part of the electoral debate, thus polarising voters along racial lines.
It is a potentially divisive Bill, and it would make sense to anticipate any conflict which can emanate from it as soon as possible so that it does not become part of the electoral platform for any political party, in the interest and for the sake of the country. You will have to read about the second concern elsewhere. Sorry. [Laughter.] [Time expired.]