Igama lamakhosikazi, ngaphandle kwele DA. [Praise the name of women, except for the DA.] Chairperson, I really have to express my disappointment at the speaker from the DA. It is International Women's Day. You would expect that, at least on this day, we can be magnanimous as women and be able to say, in one voice, what it is that all of us as women politicians can do for women. However, I think the obsession around "the ANC this" and "the ANC that" enslaves them and they are unable to move beyond that.
I think it is always a problem with an organisation that is not founded on solid principles, like the ANC, whose founding principles include a human rights culture, which informs its policies of nonsexism and nonracialism. If you don't have that foundation, I am sure you have no basis to move from.
This is quite clear, even from their performance. Here we have an organisation that governs the only province with an executive that has no women and that appoints a woman only out of expedience because they are a dying party. They want to salvage it and try and win over the people. So it is not even on principle that the woman got into that executive. It means that if that party was led by a man, we would not have a woman in that executive. That is their track record and I think it is pathetic and quite problematic.