Thank you, hon Speaker. Well, just now - not, perhaps, a long time ago - I said in my responses that we are going to have an investors' conference before the end of this year. That means we have plans to include the private sector. We have been dealing with the structures of government. We had a conference at which we wanted to align the thinking of all three spheres of government, which we have done. So there is clarity in so far as government is concerned. We are now going to have the investor conference to talk directly with the private sector. But that does not mean that we are not talking to the private sector. We have been talking to them ever since we announced the programme. So the question of us dealing with the private sector is uppermost, because government alone cannot deal with the infrastructure.
We need the investment and, certainly, the investors are very clear about this; some of them that we are talking to have already committed themselves very seriously to participating. That is no longer the issue.
With regard to companies that are linked to whatever, I'm not sure about when people do business - I still have to see the law that says a company of this and of that nature is not allowed to participate in economic activities. I'm not sure that if such companies participate, it can be called corruption, unless we don't understand the definition of corruption, because corruption is when people do the wrong things to give the benefits to others - wrongly. If we have an established company that follows all the necessary procedures, rules and laws and through its own presentation it wins the tender, if it's a tender, is that corruption? That's a new definition of corruption. Maybe we read different English dictionaries. There is an American dictionary; there is an English one.
I am saying this because, once you have a company ... I don't think there are citizens in this country that, because they were members of the DA or whatever, cannot have businesses. I don't think there is anything in the Constitution which says such a thing.
If you aspire to be a businessperson, you establish your company, you follow the rules, why should you be punished because you happen to think in a particular way politically? I think that is not constitutional. We are not according rights to the citizens of this country. We are discriminating against others simply because they are politicians. I don't understand. [Interjections.] Absolutely, I don't understand. Unless you are saying that we should have the privilege of the opposition to come in, then you can justify the point. Because I am saying that as long as ... [Interjections.] Yes. You are not giving DA members ... maybe, I don't know. [Interjections.]