Hon Chairperson, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, hon members, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen, let me, firstly, take this opportunity to indicate that I'm actually concerned by the fact that the DA has come here today to display or parade the photos of African youths, while in fact it is their predecessors who designed their fate! [Applause.] When our people were suffering under colonialism and apartheid, there was a saying in Xitsonga: "Vusiwana byi na xilandzu". [Poverty has the potential to persist from one generation to the other.]
What that meant was that hope would always follow you, as if it was God- given. This was because of the lengthy period our people suffered under colonialism and apartheid. Today they still come here and have courage to display the photos of African youths, saying, "Look at them - they are actually suffering." That, when they caused it in the first instance! The ANC ... [Interjections.]