Hon Deputy Speaker, hon members and guests ...
... lehono ke Let?at?i la Afrika; leina leo re le filwego ke MaYuropa. Leina le re iphilego lona ke Alkhebulan. Re kgobokane Palamenteng ya Afrika- Borwa. Leina la naga ya rena le reilwe ke MaYuropa. Leina le re itheilego lona ke Azania. Palamente ya rena e dikologilwe ke dihlwadieme t?a banna le basadi ba MaYuropa. Ga go na le sehlwaseeme se tee sa ngwana wa thari ye ntsho. (Translation of Sepedi paragraph follows.)
[... today is Africa Day - a name given to us by the Europeans. We had named ourselves ``Alkhebulan''. We are gathered at the Parliament of South Africa. Our country has been named by the Europeans. We call ourselves ``Azania''. Our Parliament is surrounded by statues of European men and women; there is not a single statue of a black person.]
While we celebrate Africa Day, let us acknowledge the fact that there is very little in Africa that is worth celebrating. Facts and figures can attest to that.
Today, some 300 million Africans live on less that US$1 a day; there are only 32 doctors per 100 000 people in sub-Saharan Africa; today one in three Africans is malnourished; in the year 2000, 40% of government revenue in Africa was being allocated to service debt, totalling US$350 billion, to the detriment of health, education and other services.
The so-called First World nations allot about US$48 billion each year in foreign aid to Africa, while extracting US$178 billion in debt payments. They give with their left hand and steal with their right. Africa is a continent in great distress and only Africans can save Africa. For us, Pan- Africanism is a remedy to African social, political and economic ills. We, the Africanists believe in the oneness of Africa.
African unity is the gateway to Africa's spiritual renewal, economic advancement and scientific development. The monumental failures of new colonial African states have provided an urgent need for African unity. These colonial backyards, falsely calling themselves independent states, must come to an end and give way to a monolithic United States of Africa. [Time expired.]