Hon Chairperson, through you to the Deputy President: It is indeed encouraging to hear your comments about the progress being made. We look forward to seeing the outcome of those free and fair elections. It is indeed very sad that it has taken some 10 years of instability, violence and repercussions for us as a country to get there.
What concerns me is that you, quite correctly, say that economic growth is dependent upon stability, and that the stability is not yet there in political terms. However, that stability, we had assumed, would be put in place by the unity government. In your opinion, why has that stability not resulted from that unity government?
In addition, hon Deputy President, you talk about a coming election, free from violence. Is it not true that violence on quite a large scale continues as we speak and that state violence, in the form of arrests and so on, continues as we speak, or is that again just something that the press invents? Thank you.