Thank you. I am looking forward to that and I hope we have a cigar as well. [Laughter.] And Mr President, I couldn't agree with you more that one of the biggest challenges facing the
country is building a more just society where race, gender and class no longer determines one's path in life.
The best way to achieve this is through the greatest levellers in our society; quality basic education and quality health care. A good basic education, in particular, underpins an aspiration economy and does more to address inequality than any other intervention. It allows us to ensure equality of opportunity without having to engineer equality of outcome.
If we agree on this, then how do you justify the massive cuts to the provincial governments that were made by the Finance Minister yesterday which undoubtedly are going to have to come from the provincial education and health budget? [Applause.]