Hon Motsamai, this is
actually a question for this Minister who is sitting here, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services. The responsibility of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans is to roll out benefits to military veterans, to improve the socioeconomic conditions of military veterans. This man over there has a responsibility of dealing with issues of military veterans who are in correctional facilities, not only through the Department of Correctional Services but in his capacity now as the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services. When you talk of pardons or even
amnesty for ex-combatants, this is a matter which is right at his doorstep together with the President.
As the Department of Defence and Military Veterans, all we do is to provide benefits for dependants of military veterans and dependants of ex- combatants including your children. If your children are on the database, the father or the mother is still in a correctional facility and there is evidence that the mother or the father was a member of the former liberation movement and when they supplied information which is the database to the department, your name appears, your children as your dependants do qualify for a benefit. The person who we do not look after is a person that is in a correctional facility because we do not know. Thank you. [Applause]