I want to come to a very important point which is very sensitive, hon Groenewald. South Africans have a very short memory; a dangerously short memory. From 1652, when the settlers came to this country - brought here by a private company, the Dutch East India Company - there was no land tenure system. It was smash-and-grab. [Interjections.] When the English took over the Cape after 1795 and 1806, they created rules that made it impossible for the vryburgers [free burghers] to work the land; hence the Great Trek. They made it impossible for the vryburgers [free burghers] to till the land but, still, there was no land tenure system.
After the Anglo-Boer war in 1910, the English and the Afrikaners made a pact to take over the country, share it among themselves and exclude the African people. Again it was smash-and-grab. [Interjections.] In 1948, when the then National Party took over, they created an exclusive smash-and-grab licence for themselves.