My father, Shenge, I will tell you why we disagree. This is a frivolous motion, and it is an outright waste of our time. It begs the question: Why are we even debating this? Why do we come here and even put it on the Order Paper? Importantly, how do we as Parliament deal with such frivolity in future?
I need to re-emphasise the point that the hon Mulder was trying to make here: The basis of this motion is section 102(2) of the Constitution, which requires, as hon Minister Jeff Radebe has indicated, that the majority of this House sitting here must pass this particular motion.
Therefore, for this motion to pass, we need 50% plus one. It should be very obvious to anyone, especially to the hon Mulder - who is numerically literate - that for this motion to pass it must get the support of the ANC. Nothing outside the ANC will get the 50% that you need, because, as we sit here, the ANC is the majority party with 65,9% of the seats in this House. How could Cope ever have imagined that they could carry this on 7,4%?
For those of us who are numerically challenged, it is important to note that, at this point in our debate, the Cope motion can only, at best, be supported by 25%, even if they were to combine all those members whom they have lobbied. [Interjections.]
Hon De Lille, you can postulate outside. There is not a single member of the ANC who would have supported this nonsense of a motion. [Interjections.] [Applause.]