Madam Deputy Speaker, the SABC as a public asset belongs to the nation and therefore needs to be protected. A lot has been said about the process by the DA and Cope and I agree with them. We were totally, totally misled, hon Minister, by the ANC. We trusted them. We didn't want to participate in the process because we said, "We are not going to rubber- stamp this process." They said, "It's fine; it will be inclusive", only for us to find that "inclusive" for the ANC meant including ANC, Cosatu and the SA Communist Party. [Interjections.] [Applause.] That is where the problem came from.
We really tried our best to make sure that we had an SABC board that the Minister could work with and that he could ... Could you sit down please, I'm still busy. [Interjections.]