Thank you very much. House Chairperson, the family of the late hon Bavelile and the ANC, her party, we say that we are very sorry about what has happened.
Hon members, death is very cruel, though we all shall go one day. Whichever realm of existence we are from and from whichever political milieu we are from, however different, we are one. She died at a very young age. I checked her past, saw what she studied, and passed of course. ... that she was an engineer and relevant to the department she was appointed in. ... that she was still studying, although she was in what others may enjoy as a comfortable position. She was still going on and ... actually prepared to help as many people as it is possible on earth.
Positions she occupied show the capacity she had. As she grew she had occupied many positions but she never said, because I've gone through these positions and because I have been a leader here and there, I am up there. She still went on, came here and said, I am available.
She went out there and when she died she was helping other people. She did not say, I am the Deputy Minister ... I'm passing. People are there. They are dead. Trucks
are coming ... very terrible roads. She went on and said, I am assisting, and unfortunately she died.
Like Jesus Christ, she died helping and these are things that we need not forget. I hope that wherever we are seated and however different we may think we are, it is a fact that we are one. Here as we sit, sent of course by the people of South Africa, we are one. We shall embrace one another and cry together, and say, this daughter of the soil is gone. She was our daughter, she was our sister and together with her we shall go one day. [Applause.]