Thank you, Speaker. Indeed, hon member, that is how things are done. As this House, the National Assembly, has just received the report, it can't suddenly give its decision. It must first look at it, analyse it and get the facts. Thereafter it will decide what it wants to say.
After it has agreed on the matter now before the committees, it would then say it has looked at the report and what its findings are. And the others will then say what they see as the conclusion to the matter. I am surprised that your Parliament still has the report. I thought it was me only. Do you still have the report? [Laughter.] Why are you complaining about then? That is how it is done, hon member; I fully agree with you, we concur.]
Reasons for government's silence iro situation in Libya
3. Mr M G P Lekota (Cope) asked the President of the Republic:
Given the history of this country where people who were fighting for freedom were killed by an undemocratic regime, what are the reasons for his government's initial silence when the regime of Colonel M Gaddafi killed hundreds of people who were rising up against his regime? NO790E