Hon House Chairperson, hon chairperson and hon members of the portfolio committee, hon Minister and Deputy Minister of the department, members of the executive present, senior officials and management present, guests in the public gallery, esteem members of the fourth estate, ladies and gentlemen, hon Bozzoli makes a mistake that the chairperson of the portfolio committee was disgraced by being fired. For your information, hon Mapulane was cleared and reinstated by the CCMA in 2011, and this is on public record.
Hon Bozzoli seems to want us to halt the delivery of services and programmes within the ambit of our mandate in favour of perennial witch- hunts that give no credence to the fact that we are responsible for human development and not a pedantic penchant for cost-saving at the expense of our constituents. Hon
Hlonyana, the misguided pseudo-militant leftist anarchist who spurs students to burn down infrastructure during protest cannot be trusted to provide sound and erudite advice to the Minister. How do you trust an organisation which undermines the decorum of an august institution such as Parliament by physically ambushing and almost manhandling a Minister of Cabinet? They also vacillate from their own ideological leanings from time to time to suit their penchant for expensive French and Italian couture and alcohol as witnessed in the binge in Camps Bay. [Laughter.]