Somlomo ohloniphekileyo, Sekela-Mongameli welizwe, Malungu eNdlu yoWiso-mthetho, aBaphathiswa kunye nooSekela babo neendwendwe ezihleli egalari,kuliqhayiya negugu kum ukuthatha kwam inxaxheba kule Voti yoHlahlo-lwabiwo-mali yanamhlanje kulo nyaka wama-2013. Olu hlahlo-lwabiwo- mali lwenzeka phantse ngexesha lokubhiyozelwa kwekhulu leminyaka lomthetho owaziwa jikelele ngokuba nguMthetho wezeMihlaba we-1913; uMthetho Nombolo 27 we-1913. Ngomso, lo mthetho uza kuba ugqiba unyaka wekhulu.
Lo mthetho ke walushiya uhlanga olumnyama luzimpula zikalujaca, luxhomekeke kwabaphaliweyo- abelungu ukutsho kuba wonke umhlaba ochumileyo nonezimbiwa wawela ezandleni zala madla-gusha. Yiyo loo nto urhulumente okhokelayo kaKhongolose, i-ANC, emaxhaphetshu exova le nyewe yokuba abantu bafumane imbuyekezo ngorhwaphilizo olwenziwa ngolunya. Asiyonto elula ke leyo. Yiyo le nto uMongameli ethe mayiphinde ivulwe le nyewe nangona ibisele ivaliwe. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraphs follows.)
[Mrs L E YENGENI: Hon Speaker, hon Deputy President of the country, hon Members of the National Assembly, hon Ministers and Deputy Ministers and distinguished guests in the gallery, I feel very proud and honoured to participate in today's budget vote of the year 2013. This budget vote almost coincided with the celebrations of hundred years of the Act that was generally known as the Land Act of 1913; Act No.27 of 1913. Tomorrow, this Act will be in its hundredth year.
This Act had left the black community impoverished, depending on white people because all the fertile land and the mineral resourced land fell in the hands of these white people. That is why the ANC-led government is busy working on a strategy to make sure that people are compensated for what was forcefully taken away from them through corruption. This is not an easy task. That is why the hon President said this issue must be revisited although it had already been finalised.]
We are pleased to see that the formula was indeed revised in 2012 by a working group comprised of representatives of the National Treasury, the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, the SA Local Government Association, the Financial and Fiscal Commission, and Statistics South Africa. We welcome these developments as part of the local government functional and fiscal framework being undertaken jointly by Cogta and the National Treasury. We hope that this is going to address the challenges that exist.
In regard to the National Youth Development Agency, we welcome and congratulate the new board of the National Youth Development Agency which has presented a new vision to create a developmental agency that seeks to empower all South African youth socially and economically for a better life.
Moreover, the new vision puts more emphasis on the education of young people and skills development as well as strategic partnership with other stakeholders. This stems from the 53rd ANC Policy Conference which said that, in seeking to address youth unemployment which can be arguably attributed to the structure of the South African economy, it would be important to further develop strategies to ensure the improvement of education and skills development amongst young people, so that they are better prepared for the working world.
This is the final year of our term and all the political parties in this House are in election mode, including my own party, the ANC. We are all positioning ourselves for the pending elections. However, what is going to determine the outcome of the elections is not clever rhetoric, character assassination, fabrications of the history of our political parties, and what our parties stand for, nor distorting the gains of our liberation struggle, but the delivery of basic services to the people, for example, access to clean water, housing, sanitation, etc. [Interjections.]
What will determine the election outcome is not how loud the politicians can scream and refuse to take responsibility for situations of their own making, like here in the Western Cape. [Interjections.] The delivery of basic services is the determining factor. Period! This analysis of the DA in the Western Cape, that people are not genuine and disgruntled, is exposing them as being politically nave and is exposing their lack of ability to govern.
On a daily basis in this Parliament and outside, the DA of Premier Zille is deliberately misleading the nation with unfounded lies, that the Western Cape is the best-run province. However, it is a well-known secret that the DA brought back racist apartheid policies through the back door.