The Mayor of Cape Town, a party leader in her own right, formed an alliance with the DA in the last election, and they swallowed her up. [Interjections.] I want to caution you. I want to advise you to be careful because you have heard what they say. They say they want only two strong parties. So they want to be able to usurp the votes that the people gave you.
O seke wa digela batho ka go tsaya diboutu tsa bona o ya go dirisana le mokgatlho o o ikaeletseng gore ga o batle go dirisana le batho. [Don't mislead people by taking their votes to work with the party that has an intention of not working together with the people.]
There are times when members of the opposition - in particular the DA - speak from this podium about Cape Town and the Western Cape, they speak as if Cape Town and the Western Cape is not part of South Africa. [Interjections.] This Cape Town is equally part of South Africa. Cape Town is benefiting from our taxes because they are counted within South Africa. [Interjections.] But also remember that the Western Cape was built to where it is by the ANC. [Interjections.]
When you target the ANC for cadre deployment - the Western Cape and Cape Town can tell you horrific stories. What happened to the former municipal manager, Comrade Wallace Mgoqi, when Madam Helen Zille became the mayor? [Interjections.] She removed him. Why did she remove him if it is not cadre deployment? [Interjections.]
So I want to say to you ... [Interjections.] ... yes, there are those like the hon James who said that The Presidency and its budget are big. [Interjections.] It has to be big because now we have a Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, as well as an Administration unit ... [Interjections.] We have the National Planning Commission, NPC, in it; we have the National Youth Development Agency in it ... [Interjections.] The