Hon Chairperson, in celebrating our tangible and intangible cultural heritage for social cohesion, we have to start from a sound and solid base. The hon Chief Whip of the ANC referred throughout his speech to the African people, and I understand what he means, but I need to point out to him that I am also an African. My family came to this continent in 1685, that is 324 years ago, before most Americans went to the United States, Canadians to Canada and Australians to Australia. I am an African!
When the hon Dr Buthelezi, at the end of his speech, asked the Chairperson to allow Africans to give him a good hand, you would have seen that all members in this House jointly gave him a good hand. We are all Africans.
We have to accept and understand that at this stage we do not have one single united cultural heritage. We will only succeed with social cohesion and national reconciliation if we follow the right recipe.
We will not succeed with nation-building and social cohesion by stumbling from one sporting event to the next. We need the right recipe. Maybe, that recipe we may find in the preamble to the Constitution, which I do not think we often read, where it clearly says: "We, the people of South Africa ... believe that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity."
That is a reality of South Africa. We are a very diverse nation. Let us respect our differences, then we can become united and succeed with social cohesion and through nation-building, as Africans, all of us. Thank you.