Madam Acting Speaker, President Jacob Zuma is spending R203 million of hard-earned taxpayers' money on his private homestead in Nkandla. [Interjections.] We can ask ourselves: What else could we have done with that money? The fact is that, at a whopping R15 000 per day, President Zuma could have hired 2 000 trucks for a whole week to deliver textbooks to students in Limpopo.
Furthermore ...
Acting Speaker, on a point of order ... [Interjections.]
What point? [Interjections.]
The point of order is ...
Hon members, can you just allow the Chief Whip of the Majority Party to state his ... [Interjections.]
The point of order is that statements must be factually correct. [Interjections.] This is not factually correct ...
Madam Acting Speaker ...
... because the President is not a Minister of ... [Interjections.] The President is not in charge of Public Works.
Acting Speaker, this is not a point of order.
Hon Acting Speaker, on a point of order: We suggest that the hon Chief Whip of the ANC should, firstly, understand the Constitution ...
Hear, hear!
... and, secondly, that he be aware of the Rules of this House, which direct its public proceedings. Thank you.
Continue, hon member.
Thank you, Madam Acting Speaker.
Madam Acting Speaker, are you going to rule on that point of order?
No, I am not.
It is not a point of order, and I think ...
That is why I am saying that the member must continue.
I think the Chief Whip of the ANC needs to be made aware of the Rules of the House, Madam, because he is deliberately interfering with our speaker. [Interjections.]
Continue, hon member.
Furthermore, wherever the DA governs, such as in the Western Cape, it uses an amount of R203 million for one of the following: to pay the salaries of 846 schoolteachers for a year or to build about 3 692 RDP houses for the poor. This is the difference between the voter- sensitive and efficient DA leaders and the self-enriching, authoritarian and corrupt clique of President Zuma, who is the enemy of poor people. [Applause.]