Hon Speaker, hon Deputy President, I move without notice:
That the House - 1) notes with great sadness the passing on of the Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) Parliamentary Caucus, Alina Machejane Rantsolase, MP, on Wednesday, 3 November 2010, after a short illness;
2) further notes that hon Rantsolase became a Member of Parliament for the ANC in 2009 and has served on the Portfolio Committees on Home Affairs and the Portfolio Committee on Labour, where she played a significant role with regard to labour brokering;
3) remembers that, like many fellow young compatriots born during the period of political repression, she was compelled by material conditions of that time to join the youth anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s to fight against the minority regime's Bantu education and its exploitative labour system;
4) believes that Ms Rantsolase was one of the hardest working MPs, who managed to juggle her time prudently in discharging her responsibilities in the co-ordination of caucus political and administrative business, and political management of her committee as a Whip, as well as finding time for her organisational responsibilities in the ANC provincial structures in Gauteng;
5) acknowledges that the death of Ms Rantsolase has robbed Parliament, her organisation, the ANC and its alliance partners of a hard worker and outstanding leader who has spent her life serving the people, particularly the vulnerable and less fortunate, and who never shied away from any task, no matter how challenging it was; and
6) conveys its heartfelt condolences to the African National Congress, its Alliance partners and her family.
Agreed to.