Chair, the DA and the FF Plus derive pleasure from the misery of our people. What is missing from their minds are the squalid conditions and crass exploitation, which blur their mind to the extent that the ANC's approach is seen as disastrous. Their fear of their circumstances is fatal and immoral, and they use it to justify their vicious exploitation of workers and natural resources for their own ends.
Yet, they blame the ANC government. We are saying that it is the duty of the democratic state to be interventionist and developmental in nature so as to protect the hapless poor masses from this kind of exploitation. There is no amount of volume or noise of any proportion that can create potential legitimacy for and justification of this historical defraud of our fathers' land. The socioeconomic conditions and political petrifaction is embedded in this question of land dispossession and the hegemony of the apartheid colonialism as a codified system. Each type of relation of production is defined by relations of possession and property, hon Smit.
As power, property implies the existence of ideological relations, with the state imposing norms articulated by the law, within a context of objective conditions between class interests.
The Freedom Charter of the ANC remains our lodestar.
The entire concern of those who are opposed to this programme is just a truckload of nonsense. It will never subvert us or our transformation of this society.
I want to make one final point. They call our programme on land reform "shotgun weddings". These white liberals, including ... [Interjections.]
They are liberals. They are academics. They are ... [Interjections.]