Chairperson, I would really like to paraphrase my comments here today, and then I am going to leave my speech, because I think I must deal with the last speaker.
I want to paraphrase my comments with reference to a case study by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, called Money and Mambas - Listening to the People.
Our efforts over the past 15 years of democracy have been devoted to improving the lives of all our people. I cite the UNDP reference not because of the technical detail of the monitoring and evaluation process, but I think as I have seen in the Green Paper, Minister, for the insight that your strategy - the plan of government - is providing to deal with the realities of while we are doing monitoring and evaluation also to look at how the people are being engaged in that monitoring and evaluation, because that will be critical. At the outset I therefore want to acknowledge the Minister's role. He is going to be a bold and courageous leadership champion in this programme, because it is 15 years after our democracy and we have identified that as a strategic intervention required, both at Polokwane as well as in the state of the nation address.
But let me deal with the opposition speakers here. [Interjections.]