There is no way, hon Cardo, that you could say to us that we are being influenced by the alliance. We are part of the alliance in this country, part of Cosatu and the SACP. We are all working together as a collective. We have been able to make sure that this NDP that they are talking about has been a policy that we have been able to derive and work together on.
There is no way that we are going to shy away from the NDP and there is no way that they could say to this government that they have never been in government or that this alliance is SACP or Cosatu. We have found that the collective of the ANC is able to say that this NDP is part of us.
This is what the hon Minister has been able to do. This is what the hon Minister has been able to say to you, even today, that this is central to our own policies and the work that we are going to be doing together as a collective.
No matter what he is saying about the economic strength, we as the ANC are saying that, as South Africans, we should take the responsibility together. Let us make sure that all of us are working together as a collective. Let us we make sure that the NDP is being implemented as a collective. Nowhere does the ANC shy away from it.