Chair, hon members, allow me to speak from the heart today.
It is strange that today the DA wants to teach us a lesson while the DA was part of the suffering and our people are still poor. It is strange today that people want to talk about suffering while they don't know anything about what it is to suffer.
We, as black people in this country, have a beautiful heart. We have forgiven these people for all the wrong things they have done to us, and yet these very same people want to come and tell us how we should live our lives.
They are the reason why some of our dads, moms and aunts never went to school. They are the reason. They must stop this thing of trying to tell black people that they are better than us. They are not better than us. [Applause.]
Another thing I want to say today is: Freedom Day is not something that I hear. I have paid with my life.