Chairperson, we must use Human Rights Day to celebrate our ability to deal with the grievances of the suffering masses. Diversity and unity is about respecting the structures created by human rights, like the Human Rights Commission, the Public Service Commission and the structures of government where we can report and deal with grievances. Let us use Human Rights Day to demonstrate to people out there that we can take the problems and provide amicable solutions. Tremendous challenges exist around the issues of sexual abuse in schools, child support grants and prostitution. These are some of the issues that are plaguing our country. How can we highlight the challenges that affect human rights and in the process start to educate our people about the structures where their complaints can be lodged and, ultimately, also show how we can deal with the promotion of human rights, unity and diversity? There must be a proactive and robust application of the Constitution so that citizens will begin to know what the promotion of human rights is all about.
Our schools have become dysfunctional. We want to protect our indigenous or ethnic languages and we want to protect all our cultures, so that we retain those human rights as a South African nation that is different from any other country in the world. Let us not undermine and erode our human rights by demonstrating the suppression of indigenous or ethnic languages. Just because they don't have a voice in this Parliament to protect their rights does not mean that those are not rights they would like to be protected.
I am reminded by the words of the democratic Constitution of the inclusion of a clause by the former MF leader, the late Amichand Rajbansi, who ensured the inclusion of a clause for the promotion, protection and preservation of everyone's faith, culture and religion.
Finally, the MF hopes that the happiness of all South Africans will increase like the price of fuel, that their sorrow will fall like the Zimbabwe dollar and that their hearts will be filled with joy, like the fraud and corruption that fills the eThekwini Municipality.