Chairperson, if I had been a member of Cope I would have expelled hon Feldman for referring to the old and only Congress of the People, but let me leave it at that.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the first lady of the United States of America, Mrs Michelle Obama, is currently visiting South Africa in her first major solo overseas trip as US first lady;
2) further notes that Mrs Obama, who is accompanied by her daughters Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson, but not by her husband, US president Barack Obama, has met former President Mandela and his wife Mrs Graca Machel, First Lady Mrs Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma, gave a keynote address at a conference of the Young African Women Leaders Forum and visited various communities and monumental areas across Gauteng, including a visit to the Apartheid Museum; and
3) takes this opportunity to welcome Mrs Michelle Obama to the beautiful shores of our land and wishes her a remarkable experience in the time she is part of the fragrances of the African nature, the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever- changing seasons that define the face of our beautiful African land!