Madam Deputy Speaker, I wanted to make a statement in respect of the Minister of Economic Development, relating to the International Monetary Fund's vindication of the IFP's position on reform of the monetary system, but the Minister is not here. Perhaps somebody could tell him that I will make a statement on this issue the next time he is here. I have sent him the documentation.
Since the Minister of Trade and Industry is here, I would like, through you, Madam Deputy Speaker, to address him following what the Minister of Finance has pointed out to us, and what the Minister of Trade and Industry has pointed out to us several times. This point is that there is great room for the expansion of South African industries in the rest of Africa. There is our hinterland - that is where our industries go - and yet that is where we have the least amount of market access, and the greatest tariffs and nontariff barriers.
We have easy access to the European and American markets for our products, goods and services, but not to the rest of the African markets.
Therefore, I would like to invite our Minister of Trade and industry to tell us in specific terms - and not in general terms, as he has done thus far in our committee - what he and the Minister of Foreign Affairs intend to do in the next few years to ensure that our industries will have full, unfettered and equal access to all the markets within the African countries. Thank you very much.