Regarding the issue of rain that may give rise to thundery weather, I would just like to say to the hon Groenewald that anything must be like thunder. It must be dense, or no rain will follow. Therefore, to get some rain, you first have to see some thundery weather. Friends ...]
The hon member Bhoola spoke with passion about something that we in the ANC believe in. We believe that we need to support the subsistence fishermen who make a living out of fishing and also put food on their families' tables. We should go all out to do that.
Vriende, ek wil graag gebruik maak van die teenwoordigheid van die Adjunkminister van Handel en Nywerheid. [Friends, I would like to make use of the presence of the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry.]
The hon Deputy Minister was a very vocal and dedicated member of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture. Now, I have just two requests for her. The one is to help us to revive the cotton industry so that we can say that the shirts that we wear are proudly made in South Africa from South African cotton. [Applause.] The second thing I want to ask her concerns her department's involvement, in some form or the other, in agricultural development. A mere one-and-a- quarter hour's drive from Queenstown in the former Transkei is the Qamata Irrigation Scheme. It has gone to wreck and ruin. Wouldn't her department want to do some agricultural industrial development there so that it can become the breadbasket of that rural area of the former Transkei? I put this to her and I know that, being a passionate person, the hon Deputy Minister will make work out of it.
I am going to make my speech from the back forwards.
We have a problem with regard to the provisions of the White Paper, the 1998 White Paper ...
THE TEMPORARY CHAIRPERSON (Prof L B G Ndabandaba): Hon member, please be mindful of your time.