Hon Minister, hon Deputy Minister, hon Members of Parliament, comrades and compatriots...
Bjalo ka mokgatlo wa ANC, re thekga ditekanyet?o t?a lefapha le. Re di thekga ka lebaka la gore go a bonagala ka t?ona, tema e tla t?haba diatla. Go bonala gore batho ba gabo rena ba ba dulago dinagamagaeng, bjale le bona ba tla buna dienywa t?a tokologo t?eo e lego kgale di ba pota ka nthago. Ba be ba sa kgone go ka dira selo ka ge e be e le gore ba kgethollot?we go tloga kgale. Bodiidi, go hloka, tlala yeo e iphilego maatla le hlokego ya me?omo yeo bao ba ikhwet?ago ba na le diatla t?a go ?oma, me?omo e sa fihle go bona, di be di e iphile maatla.
Temokrasi ya Afrika Borwa yeo re e hwedit?ego ka 1994, e bile bohlokwa go batho kamoka. Ke yona yeo e dirilego gore Ma-Afrika Borwa ba myemyele, ba ipethe difega ba re le rena re fihlile tokologong. Go diregile mohlolo woo lefase le bego le se la o lebelela. Go tlo?it?we tlala, dillo le ditsikitlano t?a meeno moo go bego go le kgethollo; gwa fedi?wa bohloki go ba bangwe bao ba dulago dinageng t?a ditoropong.
Re fihlile temokrasing ye e tli?it?ego bophelo bjo bo kaone go batho ba baso - tshepo ya bophelo bja tokologo yeo e felelet?ego, bokamoso bjo bo edilego, tshepo ya go tseba gore wa geno ke wa ge?o, ngwana wa ka ke ngwana wa set?haba kamoka. Ge ngwana a ka bolawa ke tlala, a hloka mo?omo, a ?itwa go t?welet?a dithuto t?a gagwe pele, a hloka madulo le go hwet?a kalafi, set?haba kamoka sa motho yo moso ga se na bokamoso, se lahlegile, Afrika Borwa e lobile.
Go bohlokwa go tseba gore tokologo le temokrasi t?e ke bolelago ka t?ona mo, ga se t?a re fihlelela kamoka ka go swana ka nako e tee goba ga di lekane. Badudi ba dinagamagaeng moo t?ohle e sa lego bo?uana, bohloki, moo malwet?i a iphilego maatla ka mabaka le go hloka t?a maleba le t?a phepo ye kaone, go hloka ditirelo t?a maemo le gona go hloka monyetla wa go t?ea karolo mo ekonoming ya naga ka botlalo, go ba paledi?a go ka ba maloko le badudi ba Afrika Borwa ba ba felelet?ego.
Mopresidente o hlomile Kgoro ya Tlhabollo ya Dinagamagae le Tshokollo ya Naga ye ka lebaka la go bona gore go swanet?e go ba le se sengwe seo e lego gore ga se direge go swana le mehleng, go bona gore e bohlokwa. (Translation of Sepedi paragraphs follows.)
[The ANC supports the budget because it is an indication of progress in this department. The people in rural areas will also reap the fruits of democracy, which they could not access before as they were discriminated against in the past. Poverty, hunger and lack of jobs were serious challenges in the rural areas.
South Africa achieved its democracy in 1994 and that has benefited all the people in the country. It made all South Africans proud. This came as a big surprise to the whole world. Poverty has been eradicated and the challenges that came with discrimination have been dealt with. Poverty has been eradicated in the cities as well.
Democracy has improved the lives of black people; it gave them a better future where they can live in unity and raise the children of this country together. It would be a loss for South Africa as a country and the whole nation should a child suffer from hunger, be unemployed, find it difficult to further his or her studies, lack a home or find it difficult to access health services.
It is important to know that freedom and democracy have not reached all the people in the same way or at the same time. For the people in the rural areas, challenges such as poverty, sicknesses due to lack of a healthy nutrition, lack of decent services and lack of opportunities for them to contribute to the economy of the country have made it impossible to enjoy their citizenship as South Africans.
The President has established the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform because he wants to bring about change in the lives of our people.]
The ANC's strategy and tactics state that, and I quote:
The national democratic revolution has a national and democratic task and should strive to realise a dignified and improved quality of life among all the people by providing equal rights and opportunities to all citizens and restoring the birthright of all South Africans regarding access to land and other resources.
Ke ka fao bjalo ka mmu?o wa go etelelwa pele ke ANC, re bonego bohlokwa bja dinagamagae le go t?ea ?edi gore maphelo a batho ba dinagamagae a swanet?e go hlabollwa gore le bona ba kgone go bona bophelo bjo bo kaone. (Translation of Sepedi paragraph follows.) [That is why the ANC-led government values the rural areas and strives to improve the quality of life of the people who live in these areas.]
In its 2009 manifesto, the ANC identified an equitable, sustainable and inclusive growth path that brought decent work and sustainable livelihoods, education, health and safe and secure communities as some of the objectives in order to ensure a better life for all South Africans.
The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme, as a strategy, provides the opportunity to address job creation in the rural areas. The concept of "rural areas" draws from the definition under the Rural Development Framework of 1997: "sparsely populated areas in which people farm or depend on natural resources". These may be villages or some small towns. Rural areas include large settlements in the former Bantustans created by apartheid's forced removals and dependent on migratory labour and remittance for survival. Among those constituting rural dwellers are farm dwellers and workers resident on privately owned commercial farms.
Go se rutege le gona go hloka thuto ya maleba go iphile maatla. Ke ka fao re bonago bont?i bja batho ba dinagamagaeng ba gapelet?ega gore ba nt?he bana kamoka ka dikolong, t?eo le t?ona e lego gore di ba kgole. Ba t?ea nako ye telele ba sepela maeto a matelele gore ba fihlelele thuto goba ba ba t?ea ba ba i?e go ?oma dipolaseng. Se se dirwa ka ge bont?i bo bolaya noga. Ge go na le bana ba bane goba ba ba hlano ka mo lapeng, gona go ra gore matikinyana a gona a tla tsebalega le ge e le gore ga a reke selo, a re kgont?ha feela go reka lesaka la bupi goba sesepa sa go hlatswa.
Ka ge re tseba gore le gona ka dipolaseng batho ba ?omi?wa bo?aedi, ba lefelwa t?helete ye nnyane ba boe ba hlori?we ka me?egofela, se se direga ka ge bont?i bja bao e le bomme, e le basadi. Ka fao mmu?o wa ANC o bone go le bohlokwa gore thlabollo ya dinagamagae, kudukudu go t?a thuto, e bohlokwa, go direla gore le bona bokamoso bja bana ba gabo rena bo kaonafale. (Translation of Sepedi paragraphs follows.)
[High levels of illiteracy and a lack of quality education in rural areas have led most parents to take all their children out of school to work on the farms. They take their children to work with them on the farms because they want to increase the family income. Families with four to five children get a better income even though they can only afford a bag of mielie meal and washing powder. The schools are also far from the communities and this leads to children having to walk long distances to schools.
We know that farmworkers, among others are exploited; they do not get a living wage. This is because most of the farmworkers are women. The ANC-led government therefore found it necessary to develop the rural areas, especially with regard to education, because it is the key to a better future.]
We are sounding a clarion call to big businesses to assist and work with government in creating decent jobs in rural areas by not regarding people as cheap migrant labourers, but by focusing on the establishment of industries that will ensure that our people are trained and skilled in different fields.
A province like Limpopo, which produces many agricultural products, can thrive and create work for its people if processing plants are built. These can produce final products like juice, pures, jams and dried fruits from its abundance of fruit and vegetables, instead of exporting them to highly industrialised provinces like Gauteng. Even the minerals that are mined in that province can produce expertise in final products if plants are built there. So, we are requesting the department to take that into consideration.
The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme provides a framework and an opportunity for intervention in those areas to make a difference in the lives of the rural poor. Planned interventions such as rural infrastructure projects can provide a huge benefit in terms of the creation of job opportunities in the rural areas. It is unfortunate that some of the hon members didn't listen to the President when he told them to go and talk to Julius Malema himself, and not come and make it our responsibility.
Training and development programmes... [Interjections.]