Hon Chair, young people will unleash the revenue streams and next generation jobs for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the cyber civilization, not academics and scientists.
I do not see enough opportunities for young teenagers. Incubation hubs must be funded and supported at primary schools and high schools, especially in deep rural areas. Each school in the country must have an incubation hub.
Hon Chair, there is no time now to talk to about it, but I was in the forefront seeing young people create the 21 revenue streams of the internet and the next generation jobs that followed in South Africa. The department is out of kilter in this strategic planning leaving out young people. To make up, I hope they will fund a 5G fast internet for them and fund coding learning opportunities.
Hon Chair, I do not see a plan to send a South African woman to space in her own spacecraft. It is sad that Trump is going to beat us to Mars, this is the last thing our comrade aliens want. We need an urgent review of the SA National Space Agency to further honour the great loss that the country had this weekend with the device of comrade Mandla, popularly known as the space boy. I want to be a bit controversial as I had not been controversial yet.
Science and Technology must know no affirmative action as much as we want to address the imbalances of the past. Bursaries, funding and opportunities must be free of this redress. We need to unleash the
intellectual power and innovation of all or citizens. When we take this policy decision in Science and technology, we hope that the white racism and colonialist tendencies that we are still experiencing will be will be wiped out to reciprocate.
The cyber civilization goes beyond the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I see nothing in the budget to get us ready in the next two decades. We must go beyond the challenges of climate change. Worse than climate change is chemical poisoning of our waterways, rivers and shorelines, and I see no efforts in this regard. The South African scientists and academics admit that they do not know what to do. In the meantime livestock, horses, human beings and marine life are harmed.
This budget does not with deepest respect create a sense excitement, but it is early days, and we have a dynamic Minister who will get us to space in our own spacecraft which Al Jama-ah will name the blade. Time expired.