THE MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Hon Chairperson, Deputy Minister of Social Development, Ms Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu; chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development Ms Zoleka Capa; hon Members of Parliament, MECs for social development, representatives of the disability sector, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is with a great sense of honour that I rise before this august House to present Budget Vote 19 of the Department of Social Development for the financial year 2014-15. I owe this opportunity to the people who supported our functioning democracy and gave the ANC a fresh mandate to move South Africa forward. Twenty years ago, under the leadership of the first democratic President of the Republic of South Africa, Tata Nelson Mandela, South Africans from all walks of life took the first courageous steps on a journey towards the long walk to freedom. These steps were about a journey to bring an end to the legacy of apartheid and to build a united, nonracial, nonsexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa.