Chairperson, hon Minister and Deputy Minister, hon members and our guests here today, when the department states that its aim is to ensure the provision of comprehensive, integrated, sustainable and quality social development services targeted at vulnerability and poverty and to create an enabling environment for sustainable development in partnership with those committed to building a caring society, we can say that that is in line with what the ruling party, the ANC, states in its policy document "Ready to Govern" which was adopted way back in 1992.
This document goes on to state that welfare includes the basic rights to shelter and food. And here I must say to our opposition parties: this is why food is given to people - because we have said that we will ensure that there is food. I must add that this food is given on a regular basis, not every five years. [Interjections.] It would be a very, very sad day if food was only given to people every five years. [Interjections.]