House Chair, the question is as follows: Whether certain persons contributed to the National Treasury Economic Policy Paper, not titled, entitled "Economic Transformation Inclusive Growth and Competiveness towards an economic strategy for South Africa" if so what was their role? Then the names
submitted for these certain persons, are those of Professors; Ricardo Hausmann and Robert Lawrence from Harvard University, hon Shivambu. I think you forgot to add Professor Dani Rodrik. The question is; have they contributed towards the paper? The answer depends how you define contribute because, you can contribute in various ways. You can contribute by drafting a paragraph or adding a coma and so on, or could contribute by entering into a debate and a conversation that enriches the thought process. Others could contribute by paying for the venue of a meeting or something like that. Now, in this instance I think what we are getting at, since I know you from the youth league days, what we are getting at, is a view that the paper was written by Harvard University Professors, which is false. Now, if we have time I wanted to read the people who participated at the three colloquium that we organised at the South African Reserve Bank, which colloquium may have contributed the ideas process or may not, but I think they probably contributed to enrich the thought process.
There only three Harvard professors, the rest are South African professors, some of them are from your university
at University of the Witwatersrand, from Stellenbosch University, University of Free State and others, while some were private sector economists, government economists, South African Reserve Bank economists, farmers for example from ZZ2 and so on. So, yes ideas were contributed because the thought processes are not static.
I think there is some kind of intellectual inferiority because Harvard University is therefore, it is only the Harvard University that contributed, and yet these other South African academics who contributed but because you are scared of the Harvard University professors, you uplift them higher than the others. The fact of the matter is that there were other professors as well including some who might have taught you and you didn't pick up what they taught you. Thank you very much.