Thank you, Chair. It seems as if there is a very serious issue about my time. However, I must indicate that during the 1976 uprisings around Bantu education, our students were killed by the then apartheid regime. I don't believe that certain leaders can today attempt to say that they are talking on behalf of the students in our area.
True to the clarion call by the people of South Africa who gathered in Kliptown, Soweto, in 1955, that the people shall govern, the NCOP, the Limpopo provincial legislature and Limpopo municipalities gathered at Tubatse in the Sekhukhune area from 23 to 26 March 2010. This gathering culminated in serious interactions with the ordinary masses of our people under the theme: "Taking Parliament to the People."
We are confident in Limpopo that, had the warrior-king, King Sekhukhune, been around during this particular event, he would have retorted that the blood and sweat spilt by his people in their uprising against their colonial masters was not in vain. It was at this event that we witnessed the people's power and people's government in motion. The people are indeed in governance in the Republic. Our people have been voting and have been voted into governance in this country, our beloved Republic of South Africa, which is presently under the able leadership of President Jacob Zuma of the ANC.
We are all aware that as we say that the people shall govern, the statement in itself bestows rights and obligations upon us all. More importantly, it brings with it the right to vote and the right to be voted into office. This brings with it the right of choice and the right to be chosen.
Unmistakably, the people of South Africa in general, and those of Limpopo in particular, have chosen and voted the ANC to be the ruling party of this country. We are confident that, through our deeds, this trend of choice shall continue whenever elections are called in this country, despite lesbian marriages which are being witnessed. [Interjections.]
We are prompted to say that the democratic dispensation in South Africa is very sweet and progressive, hence the kind of choices in relation to marriages, lest we witness domestic violence and the abuse of one partner by the other.