Thank you, Madam Chair, for allowing me to take part in this debate.
I was very interested in what hon Feldman had to say because, strangely enough, that had come into my speech as well. I do think it is important that we take note of that. It is easy to get up here and make racial distinctions, you know: If you are white you were apartheid, if you are black you were struggle.
It's easy to make those distinctions, but it actually fails to take account of the most extraordinary thing about ourselves and our country. That is, very simply, as Mr Feldman said, that mankind came into being in this country. We know now without doubt that the first men and women, from whom every human being in the world is descended, lived here in South Africa first, and, if we go back far enough, then I will find that my ancestral mother is the same woman as your ancestral mother.
It is so important that we who live in the cradle of mankind should accept that we are human beings, no different from one another.
It is also important that we recognise that here, in this, the beloved country, long before anyone anywhere else was, was first the family, was language, was culture, was fire, was technology, and most importantly, was compassion, ubuntu.
We need to know how special we are. Whenever I am asked to welcome a conference of people who have come from overseas to do whatever - to talk about trains or transport or whatever it is they are going to talk about - I always say to them: You have come home to Africa. Because that is what it is: They have come back, after so many years. And when they come - in hopefully their hundreds of thousands in five or six weeks' time - we should say: You have come home to Africa.
In this Chamber, about 54 years ago - I was alive then, long before most of the members were born ...