Deputy Speaker, well, the ANC, long before the DA thought human rights were the be-all and end-all in South Africa, has always been pursuing human rights. That is why we campaigned for apartheid to be declared a crime against humanity and a threat to world peace when your predecessors, the DA, were in the apartheid Parliament. [Interjections.]
So, you are not the ones to tell us who to trade with. We are guided by our own conscience. As the people who pursue human rights in South Africa, our Constitution and the law, we cannot be dictated to by the DA on who to trade arms with. We are going to take decisions on a case by case basis. If it is appropriate to sell arms to Syria, we shall do so. These are commercial agreements between private sector companies in the main.
For your information, we have not taken any decisions to sell any arms to Zimbabwe since July of this year. This is not because the DA says so, but it is because we monitor a situation on a case by case basis. So, to answer your question directly, we are not going to be dictated to by the DA on what to do. We are going to be dictated to by the policies of this government and Parliament. [Applause.]