Chairperson, hon Ministers and Deputy Ministers, hon members, distinguished guests ...
... inkiyankiya enkulu esihlangabezana nayo yokwentuleka kwezingqalasizinda ezanele neziphucuzekile nokuyilapho okufanele uhulumeni ophethe umbuso, uhulumeni kaKhongolose, i-ANC, akhele abantu abangazange balokothe bathole amathuba anele okuhlomula ekwabiweni kwemihlaba. Lolu daba lwaqala ngesikhathi kufika izifikanamthwalo ezaziholwa nguJan Van Riebeeck ngo 1652, kwalandela ngokumiswa kwenyunyana yabamhlophe kuphela ngo-1910. Khona manjalo kwalandela umthetho omubi kakhulu onyantisa umzimba owawubizwa ngokuthi yi-Group Areas Act ka-1936. Lo mthetho wasungulwa ngunjiniyela omkhulu wobandlululo uJenene uSmuts.
Ngalokho-ke kunotalatiya lombimbi oluhlongozwa ngabanye bezinhlangano zosikhwili uphambana nobhoko, akusethusi futhi asikweshwami lokho ngoba kwaqala mandulo. Sihlalo, umanqoba nje ukuthi thina kwinhlangano ye-ANC kufanele siphokophele phambili ngokuletha izinsiza ezifanele kubantu bakithi. Bengifuna ukudlulisa lokhu kwi-Cope, uMnu. Sinclair, izithembiso akhulume ngazo zango-1994, kubi nje ngoba usaphumile kodwa nimtshele ... (Translation of isiZulu paragraphs follows.)
[... we come across a major problem of the scarcity of viable infrastructure where the ANC-led government must build houses for people who had never had enough opportunities of benefiting from land distribution. This started with the arrival of the settlers under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652, and the Whites-only Union of South Africa followed in 1910, thereafter followed by the Group Areas Act of 1936 - the most inhumane law that makes one shudder. This Act was established by the great architect of apartheid, General Smuts.
Now, there is a hostile coalition in the pipeline planned by the antirevolutionary parties, but we are not perturbed by that as this is not happening for the first time because it happened a long time ago. Chairperson, what we need to do, as the ANC, is to just press forward in delivering the services that our people need. I want to say this to Cope, through hon Sinclair, that the 1994 promises that he is talking about ... Unfortunately he went outside, but you tell him that ...]
... he was amongst the architects of what he is talking about. He must not pretend to be a preposterous figure of the greatest obesity.
Bese ngiyabuya ngiza kwi-DA, i-DA iyangichaza. Mhlonishwa Ngqongqoshe, nasi isibonelo, buka umthangala unjani la kodwa bakhona abasebenzi boMnyango Wezemisebenzi Yomphakathi lapho uhulumeni wesifundazwe uphethwe khona yi- DA, bakhohlwe yilesi sipokwe sebhuloho elise-Waterfront elingapheli, esabo lesi sipokwe. (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[And then coming to the DA - the DA amuses me, hon Minister. Here is an example: look at how untidy the hedge is here and yet the Public Works workforce is available here. And the provincial government is under the DA here. They must just forget about the Waterfront bridge that is forever under construction; that is their ghost.]
The right to access to adequate housing for all, entrenched in section 26 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and the Housing Act, Act 107 of 1997, are the bedrock for the ANC-led government's spending focus and operational models. The development of integrated and sustainable human settlements is the ANC-led government's strategy and, in support ...