Madam Deputy Speaker, the ACDP is concerned about the undermining of the sovereignty of South Africa by outside interference. A monitoring committee in the UN has issued a document, General Comment No 20, demanding changes to our state's Constitution laws and policy documents.
These are infringements of our democratic right to govern ourselves and have our children taught according to a South African curriculum. This infamous GC/20 instruction could be used to impose limitations on anything from sporting disciplines to family interactions and all religious people as it seeks to remove individual freedom.
It is the Netherlands government's interference in our school system which seeks to instil in our children a theory - not a scientific law, a theory - and one which breaks four of science's immutable laws of the universe, as a truth. They are investing R160 million in promoting the theory of evolution of which the world renowned scientist, Dr Colin Patterson, head of palaeontology at the British museum, states that there was not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument. It is for this nonviable premise that the Dutch seek to brainwash our children.
The ACDP condemns these incidents of outside interference in the strongest possible terms. We are particularly concerned for the SADC community and urge its leaders and our government not to give way by complying with any UN instruction that demands altering the country's Constitution or to accept foreign grants that seek to promote teaching our children untruths. [Applause.]