Hon Chair, Minister Dlodlo, Deputy Minister Kodwa, hon Ministers and Deputy Ministers, the Chairperson of the ad hoc committee, Deputy Chief Whip, all heads of JCPS cluster and their
committees present here, guests and hon members, one moves on the premise that this department is actually anchored on the believe that not all citizens of the world are driven by principles of honesty, absence of greed, peace loving, social solidarity and public good for all.
We, on behalf of the ANC, we will support this Budget based on the briefing that we have received from both the Minister and the Deputy Minister about the Annual Performance Plan and also the Budget policy. It's also made on the speech that they have just delivered here.
Some of us as new members on this Sixth Parliament will prefer to refrain from assuming that we know it all until we have had a chance to be thoroughly briefed. Hopefully that will come to the committee that will be permanent.
We raise our recommendations however, hon Minister, to some of these issues that you have presented to this House. Obviously, we are not expecting responses from you now. We hope that the permanent committee will be motivated by your enthusiasm you demonstrated this morning in our meeting to pull all stops to focus on those challenging areas that you, yourself, have pointed out. To me, it
makes little sense not to support a Budget when we task you to go and do this and that.
I would like to focus on three points that you raised in your speech, where you allude that there will be a desire to strengthen the criminal justice system to recover ...