Minister, if I can get your attention for just a minute. Your friends in the FF Plus over there seem to only care about white people all the time. The ANC, on the other hand, seems to be enriching a few black glitterati. They are the ones who get all the contracts and take all the cream of the BEE deals and leave young South Africans with nothing.
The DA, however, is concerned about all the unemployed people of South Africa. [Applause.] When will the ANC drop this race-based redistribution system and focus on the currently disadvantaged people of all race groups in South Africa, Minister; the currently disadvantaged people?
UMPHATHISWA WEZEMISEBENZI: Umntu, malungu e-DA, ningabokumqhwabela ezombela ingcwaba; yingozi loo nto. [Kwahlekwa.] I-ANC, ingekaphathi kwa ukuphatha, yayinomqulu eyayiwubiza ngokuba nguReady to Govern. Wena ke ngeloo xesha mhlawumbi wawusathukulul' emgodini kweny' indawo endingazi kuyibiza ngegama. Ukuba unokufunda uReady to Govern, uza kuthi kuwe: (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)
[The MINISTER OF LABOUR: DA members, please stop cheering when someone is heading for a downfall; that is very dangerous. [Laughter.] The ANC, even before it assumed power, had a document called Ready to Govern. You were not even born then. If you read Ready to Govern, it states:]
We do not support giving positions to unqualified people simply on the grounds of race or gender.
Into emxinayo ke lo mhlekazi kukumimithekiswa ngamafutha okutyeba nemali emenza athi nethe. Ixhala lakhe kukuba wafika umnt' omnyama. Kwaye uza kufika, mhlekazi, ngoba ilizwe eli lelethu xa sisonke. Musa ukuba nexhala ke ndod' akuthi, akukho apho uza kuya khona. Thina siyi-ANC, asinadabi lokulwa abantu abamhlophe. Kodwa, ingcinezelo nocalu-calulo, inene umama elele emangcwabeni apha eNY 5, sizakuzilwa. [Kwaqhwatywa.] (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)
[What bothers this man is that he is so overwhelmed by wealth and by being filthy rich. His main concern is the arrival of a black person. Sir, the black man will indeed arrive, because this country belongs to all of us. You must not feel threatened, my brother; you are going nowhere. As the ANC, we do not wage war against white people. But we will fight against oppression and racism, and that I swear on my mother's grave which is in NY 5. [Applause.]]