Chairperson, South Africa needs a new vision for the future, a vision where we as individuals as well as communities once again take control of our future. Chairperson, this is a future based on the values of integrity, honesty, hard work, mutual respect and neighbourly love. Such values have always been the steady foundation for the creation of a future of peace, safety and prosperity. Currently government's objective to relieve poverty and create wealth merely by distributing wealth is not working. That is why we have drug and alcohol abuse and gangsterism.
The directions associated with this objective are obstructing economic growth whilst poverty and unemployment are on the rise. Affirmative action or race-based action is leaving a trail of economic destruction behind. Yes, the FF Plus admits that some
people who have abundant potential were unable to reach their full potential due to shortcomings in the system. These people deserve active support, but it should not be to the detriment of other people. To blindly enforce racial quotas is a manifold injustice.
The policy of Black Economic Empowerment, BEE, resulted and still does in black elite empowerment whereby wealth is redistributed rather than created. Wealth cannot be created by distributing it. Assets are being handed out to specific black individuals instead of stimulating entrepreneurship and community upliftment. Economic empowerment in South Africa must not be aimed at the enrichment of certain individuals, but rather the true empowerment of entire communities.
Chairperson, the colour of one's skin cannot be used as a generalized indication of being previously disadvantaged and therefore, skin colour can also not be used as a condition for empowerment. Socioeconomic conditions like poverty, unemployment and a lack of access to quality education must rather be used as the criteria for empowerment. Growth and development are the only sustainable methods of empowerment.
Afrikaans:
Voorsitter, kom ek gee 'n voorbeeld van hoe die ANC se beleid van sterker swart ekonomiese bemagtiging - en die party wat daarvoor gestem het sal weet wie hulle is - uiteindelik die armstes van ons land affekteer.
Waar maarskappye voorheen geld vir nieregeringsorganises geskenk het, is hulle na die implementering van die strenger swart ekonomiese bemagtingswetgewing, SEB, nou huiwerig om geld te skenk, want hulle SEB- punte mag hulle belastingstatus benvloed.
Kom ons gebruik kinderhuise as voorbeeld. Indien daar een wit kind in die kinderhuis is, sal maatskappye weens die SEB-teikens nie belasting kan terugeis nie.
So, as daar 'n 100 kinders in 'n kinderhuis is, en een kind is wit, huiwer maatskappye nou om geld te skenk. Die effek is dat die res van die 99 kinders nou niks kry nie.
English:
To the ANC I would like to say, that is why two wrongs do not make a right, and this is not a matter of businesses having the wrong motives for their tax returns. In fact, business has remained an important source of income for non-governmental organisations, NGOs.
Afrikaans:
Intussen sukkel nieregeringsorganisasies om hulle toelaes uit die departement te kry. Toelaes vat jare om betaal te word en verhogings word nie eers oorweeg nie. Baie van hierdie nieregeringsorganisasies se inkomste kom van skenkings wat hulle van die privaatsektor ontvang.
English:
Speaker, as we speak, the Free State Department of Social Development is being sued for not implementing their payment policies correctly. This battle has been dragging for years. In the meantime, the poorest of the poor who are extremely dependent on these NGOs to deliver services, are being penalised.
Afrikaans:
Ons verwerp die toepassing van rassekwotas in die toewysing van staatsbefondsing aan maatskaplike diensorganisasies. Armoede is 'n nasionale probleem wat 'n baie groot gedeelte van die samelewing vanuit alle gemeenskappe raak.
Maatskaplike ontwikkeling bly 'n belangrike sosiale plig, wat die staat moet nakom. Armoedebekamping in gemeenskapsverband is deur die jare beproef as die mees effektiewe vorm van armoedeverligting.
Daarom sal die VF Plus hom daarvoor beywer om gemeenskapsgebaseerde, maatskaplike diens te bevorder.
English:
However, the current funding model and policy is not building a better future because if you have a social responsibility, all lives matter.
Afrikaans:
Ek dank u.