Madam Speaker, let me start by expressing my sincere appreciation to the Deputy Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development, Johnny de Lange, for the remarkable honesty he demonstrated by admitting to the massive failures in our criminal justice system. His confession begs the question: What exactly led to his Damascus experience?
You see, just a few months ago, during the Justice budget debate, members of the DA and I quoted figures from the departmental annual report that demonstrated the collapse of the criminal justice system. Then the Deputy Minister said we were talking nonsense, so now it turns out that our statements were not rubbish, but the truth.
Be that as it may, the Deputy Minister has set an excellent example to his ministerial colleagues to be transparent and honest with the electorate by admitting the ANC's massive failures. Whatever has led to Johnny's Damascus experience? It is the moral duty of the Deputy Minister to share this with his colleagues so that the whole truth about the ANC's disastrous rule of 14 years can be exposed.
Johnny de Lange had the guts to criticise his own party, but as a person who has publicly admitted the truth, we honour him today and we will assist him, and we encourage his ministerial colleagues to follow Johnny's honourable example. [Interjections.] That includes you!