Sifuna ukuthi kubantu bakuthi, siza kuhlala singurhulumente wabantu. Siya kusabela ngalo lonke ixesha kwiingxaki eniza nazo, siqinisekise ukuba niyaxhamla kubuncwane beli lizwe.
Ningabajongi aba ntamolukhuni benza ngathi bayanithanda xa befuna ivoti yenu, babe kwelinye icala befuna ukunincukutha. [Uwele wele.] [Kwaqhwatywa] Abanamsebenzi nani into abayifunayo yivoti kuphela. Bajonge ngoku apha eKapa, abantu abatyebileyo ngabona bafuna iinkonzo, abantu abamnyama abangathathi ntweni abafumani zinkonzo. Kungoku nje imvula iyana, kunzima eKannaland abantu bagcampuza emanzini ... (Translation of isiXhosa paragraphs follows.)
[Mr M F GONA: We want to reaffirm to our people that we shall forever remain the people's government. We will always respond to the problems that you put forward and ensure that you benefit from the country's wealth.
Ignore these white capitalists who pretend to love you, but are after your vote, and on the other hand want to exploit you. [Interjections.] [Applause.] They do not care about you, except for wanting your vote. Take Cape Town, for example, where the rich people are the ones demanding services and poor African people do not get services. Right now, it is raining and people in Kannaland are wading in the floods ...]
... as we speak today.
But, we are happy to note that the ANC's national executive committee, NEC, has taken a very progressive decision, that it will review the formula that we use to allocate resources to municipalities. This means that those municipalities that do not have sufficient resources will now get more resources with the new formula that we are going to bring in. Thank you. [Applause.]