Thank you, hon Speaker. Hon Deputy President, thank you for the response that you have just given us.
Do you agree that the National Development Agency, the NDA, is not fulfilling its mandate to eradicate poverty and its causes? The 77 projects funded by the NDA only managed to create 2 444 direct job opportunities for poor household families and 8 005 indirect opportunities within communities, with a value of R95 million, when we are faced with six million unemployed people in our country.
According to the Polokwane resolutions, the ANC would make sure that poor people graduated out of poverty. When will this government start to realise that only quality education and the creation of sustainable jobs will enable people to graduate out of poverty? [Applause.]