Hon Chairperson, the EFF rejects the Budget Vote of the Department of Home Affairs. The Department of Home Affairs has been one of the most cruel and hellish state departments since the advent of democracy towards Africans. It has been problematic because of the inability of the ruling elite to properly locate the strategic role of the department in advancing the developmental ideals of the country and the continent.
If properly located, this department could be the most strategic department for our renewed focus to foster Pan African unity and development. We, as the EFF, are unapologetically Pan Africanist in character, in posture and in action. It is for this reason that we must make it known, although it is obviously clear, that the Department of Home Affairs is not Afrocentric, and oftentimes actively undermines the goal for a united, borderless Africa, and this is evident in the decline of asylum seekers who have been processed between the years 2009 and 2019.
This is so because it has become clear to everyone across the continent that South Africa has become anti-African in policy and practice. And this became evident in the President's state of the nation address speech, where he said absolutely nothing about Africa and the goal towards African unity.
The EFF will push that South Africa must lead efforts for a borderless Africa, with one currency and one common language. We now have a Minister [Interjections.]
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