Agb Voorsitter, die agb Minister het netnou gepraat van voedselsekerheid. Sy s dat die regering en die ANC graag voedselsekerheid in Suid-Afrika wil h, maar ek hoor nie dat die agb Minister vir die boere sekerheid gee oor hul eiendomme en hul veiligheid nie.
Wat doen u as Minister om met u kollegas in die polisie te praat oor plaasmoorde, sodat ons boere veilig op hul plase kan wees en sodat hulle sekerheid daaroor kan h? Wat doen u as Minister om met die Minister van Landelike Ontwikkeling en Grondhervorming te praat, sodat ons boere sekerheid kan h oor hul eiendom? U wil voedselsekerheid h, maar u wil nie vir die boere ander sekerheid gee nie.
Agb Minister, u het 'n blaps gemaak met die polisiering van ons visserye en visbronne aan die kus. In Desember al was daar 'n hofsaak aan die kom. U het geweet dat die kontrak aan die einde van Maart gaan verstryk, maar u praat in die komitee en s dit is 'n probleem. Toe skrik u direkteur- generaal wakker want, volgens die record, het hy toe besluit dat hierdie saak dalk na die polisie toe moet gaan.
Ek wil vandag vir u s dat landbou 'n wetenskap is. Jy moet kennis h om dit te kan doen. U het 'n onbevoegde DG aangestel. U stel meer belang in politieke kaderontplooiing as in kundigheid om landbouwerk te kan doen! [Tussenwerpsels.] U gaan na die boere toe en u wil oor modes praat! Ek wil vandag vir u s dat toe u begin het, ek ges het dat u dalk die rain queen [ren koningin] van die boere kan wees. Ek het verlede jaar vir u ges dat u 'n Tina- promises [beloftes] is, want u maak net beloftes en beloftes. U het netnou gehoor dat beloftes gemaak was, maar dat die boere nog steeds wag vir hul voergeld. Daardie beloftes word nie gerealiseer nie.
As ek so luister na hoe u oor modes praat, en dat u meer daarin belangstel as in die probleme van die boere, wil ek vir u s dat ek verkeerd was. U is eintlik 'n drama queen! [drama koningin] Dit is waarmee u besig is, want u veroorsaak net drama vir die boere. [Tussenwerpsels.] U maak beloftes, maar u kom dit nie na nie. U departement is besig om in duie te stort en die probleem is dat u nie kritiek kan hanteer nie.
Die agb Salamuddi Abram van die ANC het verlede jaar uit 'n boer se hart gepraat. Hy het kritiek uitgespreek. Hoekom kan hy nie aan hierdie debat deelneem nie, want ek sien nie sy naam nie? U moet leer om kritiek te hanteer en om na die boere te luister. Gee vir hulle sekerheid in terme van hul eiendomme sowel as in terme van hul veiligheid. Ek dank u. [Applous.] [Tussenwerpsels.] (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Mr P J GROENEWALD: Hon Chairperson, the hon Minister has just spoken about food security. She says that the government and the ANC would really like to have food security in South Africa, but I am not hearing the hon Minister giving the farmers any sense of security about their property and their safety.
What are you, as Minister, doing to speak to your colleagues in the police about farm murders, so that our farmers can be safe on their farms and so that they can have certainty about it? What are you, as Minister, doing to have discussions with the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, so that our farmers can feel secure about their property? You want to have food security, but you don't want to give the farmers sense of security.
Hon Minister, you have made a mistake with the policing of our fisheries and fish resources on the coast. A court case was already imminent in December; you knew that the contract would lapse at the end of March, but in the committee you were speaking about it as a problem. At that point your director-general got a wake-up call - according to the records he only decided then that this case might be referred to the police.
Today I want to say to you that agriculture is a science. You must have knowledge about it to be able to do it. You have appointed an incompetent DG. You are more interested in political cadre deployment than competence to do agricultural work! [Interjections.]
You visit the farmers and you want to talk about fashion! I want to say to you today that when you started, I said that you may be the rain queen of the farmers. Last year I told you that you were "Tina promises" because all you do is make promises and promises. You have just heard that promises were made, but that the farmers are still waiting for their fodder money. These promises are not being realised.
When I listen to the way in which you talk about fashion, and that you are more interested in it than solving the farmer's problems, then I want to say to you that I was wrong. You are actually a drama queen! This is what you are busy with, because you only cause drama for the farmers. [Interjections.] You make promises, but you are not honouring them. Your department is collapsing and the problem is that you cannot handle criticism.
Last year the hon Salamuddi Abram of the ANC spoke from the heart of a farmer. He voiced criticism. Why isn't he taking part in this debate - I don't see his name? You must learn to handle criticism and to listen to the farmers. Give them security in terms of their property and in terms of their safety. I thank you. [Applause.] [Interjections.]]