Deputy Speaker, I heard you calling my name. Hon Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Chief Whip, Deputy Chief Whip of the Majority Party and hon members, the struggle for social and economic transformation of the South African state and broader society was essentially the task of replacing the apartheid state and its socioeconomic formation with a democratic dispensation which reflects the values enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic but equally shaped by the ideological and theoretical views of the ANC.
The establishment of the democratic state was a process of reconstruction influenced by the ANC's character and