We have started a number of initiatives to engage with a number of role-players on our continent as well as within our own country. In our own country we are doing quite a lot to engage with diaspora fora that represent a number of nationals from other countries. We are engaging in discussions with them at a number of levels.
As you well know, I have sent envoys to a number of countries on the continent to go and explain more fully and comprehensively what happened in our own country, and also our own position in terms of setting out our values and in terms of setting out what we stand
for. In doing so, we have found great reception from a number of countries where our envoys went. They understood precisely what happened and they also understood the steps that we were taking.
In the course of doing all that, we as a Cabinet felt that we should have a fact-finding mission that will come to our country and work together with a number of other people, including the Human Sciences Research Council, HSRC, to find out exactly what really happened. This we want to do with a view of avoiding these types of incidents into the future.
We have also engaged with a number of our own people in discussions as well as with various communities where foreign nationals are currently residing. All of this will culminate in a process where we will be able to have a much clearer position in as far as handling the issue of migration.
Migration is a huge challenge on the continent, and may I add globally, and the continent itself is in the course of discussing this matter. However, it has to be discussed much more speedily. The problem of course is that as there are reactions from nationals against migrants from other countries, there are always issues of competition for resources and competition for services, and when
that happens it sometimes manifests itself through violence, which was actually a bad type of manifestation in our own country.
So all these matters have to be discussed, and as we discuss them we are also going to rely on the wisdom of a number of people; leaders across the board - religious leaders, community-based organisation leaders, as well as sporting leaders, because our sports were also affected in all this when our sporting teams were prevented from going to play in other countries. So, we are utilising a multifaceted approach to address this problem and challenge. We think we are making good progress. We think once the fact- finding mission also finally starts its work it will find that there is fertile ground in as far as information sharing and ...[Inaudible.] ... is concerned, and they should be able to come up with what I would regard as good recommendations. So we are on a good, good course to addressing this challenge. Thank you very much.