Chair, hon Ministers, hon Members of the NCOP, invited guests and our officials from the departments; Chairperson, could I request that, when I am left with four minutes, you please inform me?
Allow me to preface my points by quoting Africanist Frederick Douglass, who lived in 1857 during the time of slavery, who said:
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. In the great struggle now progressing for the freedom and elevation of our people, we should be found at work with all our might, resolved that no man or set of men shall be more abundant in labors according to the measure of our ability than ourselves.
Hon Smit stood here and spoke about a sense of belonging. He can't talk about a sense of belonging when his brothers are evicting our people from the farms. The DA - where's my sister? She's gone. - cannot talk about the poverty of our people because they are not genuine about that poverty. The DA and the FF Plus in our land cannot articulate the misery of our people.
The debate around the land question should not be emotional; it must be ideological. I wanted to tell my sister that. You must go and tell her. Because, the negativity of leadership that she is talking about, the actual people who are negative are the liberals who are saying our policy interventions on the land question are spurious. Look, food security and productivity cannot be achieved if our people are without land. Hon Smit stands here talking about 120 farms being reduced to 37 farms. Let me respond to you, my brother. Your brothers are converting farms to game farms and golf clubs ...