Hon Chair, as the PAC we remain convinced that all the riches of this country must be in the hands of a responsible government, for the benefit of the wellbeing and development of the dispossessed masses. With the profits we make from our riches we will afford free education, free quality
health care, proper housing and in general eradicate the inhumane living conditions our people find themselves in.
The government keeps issuing our mining licenses to foreign companies that continue to exploit our people, and when these licenses expire they corrupt our desperate masses to participate in illegal mining. Our people in Xolobeni continue raising their plight to the government and the government keeps acting confused with what happened or what ought to be done.
Key to the land debate is the ownership and control of the mineral wealth and until our government has the will to repossess the dispossessed land...
IsiXhosa:
... sizakuhlala sisokola.
English:
Our land was taken through the barrel of a gun, take it at least through the act of Parliament for now. The PAC of Azania rejects this budget.