Speaker, Mr President, you are a politician and you know that it is often not easy for a politician to say that you have answered me. So I'm going to check. Colonel Gaddafi and a few of his countrymen shared the dream of Pan-Africanism. It is now clear from the latest events in Libya that the political and economic ties or loyalties will certainly lie with the countries of the north, particularly those whose forces are serving in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Nato, and to an extent in the Warsaw Pact.
What specific African virtues and ties bind South Africa and the AU to the nascent regime in Libya? You may have answered that, but I am checking.