Voorsitter, vir die eerste keer sedert 1994 het die Noord- Kaap twee nasionale Ministers. Een van hierdie Ministers is vandag hier saam met ons, en namens die Noord-Kaap wil ons haar gelukwens en sterkte toewens. Die Noord-Kaap het ook die president van AgriSA en die boer van die jaar, so dit s baie van landbou in en die landbouers van die Noord- Kaap.
Ek wil nie vandag oor landbou praat nie. Ek wil oor iets praat wat veel belangriker is, en dit is water. In die toekoms van die wreld gaan dit uitgewys word dat water die nuwe goue standaard gaan word. Water gaan in die toekoms die middel word waarmee welvaart en rykdom gemeet word. Juis daarom, Voorsitter, is dit nodig dat Suid-Afrika, as 'n dro en woestynagtige land, sy waterhulpbronne moet beskerm en uitbou.
Daarom wil Cope, as 'n alternatiewe regering, voorstel dat die Oranjerivierstelsel verder uitgebrei word met die twee damme wat reeds in die vooruitsig gestel word. Die een dam is by Douglas, wat bekend staan as die Torquay-dam, en die tweede dam is tussen Suid-Afrika en Namibi. Saam daarmee, agb Voorsitter, is dit nodig dat die Doringrivierstelsel tussen Ceres en Calvinia verder ontwikkel word om ook te dien as 'n ekonomiese inspuiting vir daardie deel van die wreld.
Ten slotte is dit nodig om te s dat die Uitgebreide Openbare Werke-program se tweede fase kan dien as 'n ekonomiese instrument om hierdie dambouprojekte en kanaalstelsels te bevorder. Ek dank u vir die geleentheid. [Applous.] (Translation of Afrikaans speech follows.)
[Mr K A SINCLAIR: Chairperson, for the first time since 1994 the Northern Cape has two national Ministers. One of these Ministers is with us here today, and on behalf of the Northern Cape we want to congratulate her and wish her all of the best. The President of AgriSA and the farmer of the year also hail from the Northern Cape, and this says a lot about agriculture in and the farmers from the Northern Cape.
I don't want to talk about agriculture today, I want to talk about something that is far more important, namely water. In future it will be shown that water will become the new gold standard globally. Water will become the means whereby prosperity and wealth are measured in the future. For that very reason, Chairperson, it is necessary that South Africa, as a dry and desert country, should protect and develop its water resources.
Therefore Cope, as an alternative government, wants to propose that the Orange River system should be extended further, in addition to the two dams that are envisaged. One dam is near Douglas and is called the Torquay Dam, and the second one is situated between South Africa and Namibia. Coupled with that, hon Chairperson, it is also necessary to develop the Doring River system between Ceres and Calvinia further, in order to serve as an economic injection for that part of the world.
Lastly, it is necessary to say that the second phase of the Extended Public Works Programme could serve as an economic instrument to promote these projects for the building of dams and canal systems. I thank you for the opportunity. [Applause.]]
UMntwana M M M ZULU: Mabhoko, Sihlalo waleNdlu, amaLungu aleNdlu ahloniphekile, abaHlonishwa oNgqongqoshe beMinyango yomibili, abanewethu abaphathiswe iMinyango yesifundazwe saKwaZulu-Natali nalabo abaqhamuka eNtshonalanga Kapa naseGauteng uma bekhona.
Dadewethu, uMnyango Wezolimo yiwona mgogodla wezwe lakithi njengezakhamizi.Uyazi ukuthi umhlabathi uma ulimile uyiyona ngubo yakho, uyingubo futhi noma usuya koyihlomkhulu. Lokhu ngikushiso ukuthi abantu bakithi ukuze babhekane nendlala ngazo zonke izindlela kuzomele uMnyango Wezolimo ukwazi ukuhlinzeka abantu ngezinsiza zokulima ezinjengogandaganda.
Njengoba udadewethu waseMpumalanga Kapa ilungu elihloniphekile, kade likhuluma ngalezo zinnhlaka ezazakhiwe, noma zazakhiwe ezinhlelweni zobandlululo kodwa zazisiza. Njengakithi oSuthu Emkhontweni kwakulinywa ngabo labogandaganda. Kwakukhona abeluleki, ababeyizifundiswa kwezolimo, ezazeluleka abantu ukuthi lo mhlabathi ukulungele namhlanje ukutshala amaklabishi, otamatisi nokuthi namhlanje kungatshalwa ummbila. Yilezo zidingo-ke eziyokwazi ukufeza izidingo zabantu bakithi eNingizimu Afrika.
Sengigoqa ngithi-ke kuleMinyango kahulumeni ekulezi zifundazwe lapha ezikhona nina ningoyise beMinyango kufanele niyibheke ngoba asinabo ohulumeni bezifunda zwe abazimele lapha. Lokhu kudliwa kwezimali kanye nokungasetshenziswa kahle kwezimali yinina belusi bayo esizonifaka isibhaxu. Kufanele ukuthi nibeluse nina uqobo ngoba kufanele kusizakale abantu bakithi abanyama baseNingizimu Afrika.
Sengibuyela kuwe dadewethu kudaba lwamanzi, mina njengomzukulu kaSolomoni ngikuthola kungemukelekile ukuthi abantu baseNgwavuma bangawatholi amanzi ngoba amanzi alaphaya eJozini ehambe ayonikezwa abathile. Ngithi amanzi ayimpilo futhi awumgogodla wesizwe kufanele ukuthi abantu bakithi abansundu bakwazi ukuzuza ngalokhu ngemuva kokuvota ngobuningi babo ngo-1994, baphinda futhi banivotela ngobuningi babo ngo-2009. Angeke sakuphika ukuthi izigidi eziyishumi nanye zazivotela kona ukuba zibe nempilo engcono eNingizimu Afrika. Ngiyabonga Sihlalo. [Ihlombe.] (Translation of isiZulu speech follows.)
[Prince M M M ZULU: Mabhoko, Chairperson, hon members, hon Ministers of the departments, and senior officials from the provincial departments of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as those from the Western Cape and Gauteng, if they are present.
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is the backbone of this country. As a community we know that when you grow crops the soil becomes your blanket, and it becomes your blanket again when you have passed on. I am saying this because people must know that in order to fight poverty the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries must be able to provide people with resources such as tractors.
As the hon member from the Eastern Cape said, the structures that were formed were very useful, even though they were formed during the apartheid era. OSuthu, at Emkhontweni, where I come from, we were using tractors for ploughing. There were advisers, specialists in farming, who advised people with regard to the condition of the soil and the type of crops that it was good for at that time; for example whether it was good for sowing cabbages, tomatoes or mielies. Those are the resources that will provide for the needs of our people here in South Africa.
In closing, I would like to say to the representatives of the provincial departments present here today that they are the heads who must monitor the departments because we do not have independent provincial governments. If there's any embezzlement and misuse of funds, you will be held accountable for it because you have to monitor them so that the black people of South Africa can be assisted.
Coming back to the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs, as King Solomon's grandchild I find it unacceptable that the people of Ngwavuma are not getting water because water from Lake Jozini is supplying other areas. Water is the life and the backbone of our nation; black people must benefit from this after voting for you in their numbers in 1994 and again in 2009. We cannot deny the fact that 11 million people voted for a better life in South Africa. Chairperson, I thank you. [Applause.]]