Almost worse than the SABC board. [Laughter.]
Comrade Minister, let me home in on some of the contemporary issues. Both the multiparty committee and the ANC have certain views about how our national anthem is handled by the SA Football Association. In Algeria it was an embarrassment. I will never stand under the Vierkleur and sing the old national anthem. I think we did a good thing in Algeria by walking away from the old national anthem, because it is an embarrassment. [Applause.]
When we attended an opening ceremony at Loftus, the national anthem was cut off abruptly and the whole country was ashamed. Nobody has ever come to this country and asked why we did that. We are saying, either the football association gets the national anthem, or no national anthem at all, and thus save the country from further embarrassment. [Applause.]
Those are very difficult and hard issues that we have arrived at, but many of the people in this country died for that flag and national anthem. One flag and one national anthem unite us as a country that cannot be divided. We cannot afford to be divided because some of us want something else to be superior to the national anthem. That is not right. [Interjections.]