Thank you very much, not so consistent Deputy Speaker. Now that the Joshua Doore has left, a revolutionary is on the podium. President and commander in chief of the EFF, officials, commissars and fighters from all nine provinces, I greet you.
Let me start by attending to Mr Carrim, an old oupa [grandfather], a beneficiary of today's ANC male-dominated speaking list. You must be told to your face that you must never undermine women and their agency. Nothing is more demeaning, insulting and misogynistic than when a man, who because he can't win an argument against a woman, starts saying her views are not her own. She is being used by men. You must stop doing that. This is what your textbook and mediocre reading of Marx and Lenin has not afforded you - to respect women; young black women in particular. Fighter Naledi can take you on chief. She can take you on anywhere, anytime. You must go and ask your father there in Nkandla, baba Duduzane.
However, let me not waste my breath. Your generation is probably lost forever on the significance of feminist ideology. Let me
now talk to the issue of land which you abandoned because the ANC's position of expropriation of land was rejected and even rubbished by spurious communists like you. You lost that debate in the ANC conference just like you lost your seat in the National Assembly. You are in the NCOP and I'm going to deal with you. [Interjections.]
Mr President, we listened and we did not hear you talk about land clearly. We were right to say you were bluffing and you did not mean anything you said about the land issue. Land, like mineral resources, should be in the custody of the state, and the state must give permission and rights to use the land for a specific purpose.
The Fifth Parliament did its work. We went all over the country and listened to our people. They were very clear. They want the land and they want it now.
Setswana:
Gompieno, eseng leng.
English:
The idea that you redistribute land by giving our people title deeds - you handed them over before the elections - will not resolve the crisis of landlessness. By the way, title deeds for what? Our people in townships are spaceless, with no sanitation, no water, no electricity. If you say you want to give them title deeds, title deeds for what exactly?
Our people do not have places to worship. Our kids do not have playgrounds but play in dumpsites. Our youth do not have recreational and sport facilities because of landlessness. Today ...
Setswana:
... batsadi ba rona ba batlhakanela mabitla. O fitlhila bo Ramaphosa, bo Zuma, le bo Mokgosi ba tlhakanela mabitla. Ke gore badimo ba rona ba tlhakanela mabitla le magodu. Ga re kgone go fitlhelela mat?hwao ...
English:
... to our ancestors. Mothers, fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers cannot feed their families. With more than 15 million South Africans unable to afford to feed their families because of landlessness, these title deeds our people get are used as fake collateral to get our people to borrow money they can't afford to repay, and the little pieces of land will end up back in the hands of white-owned banks. If anything, this is a deliberate decision to ridicule black people and land struggles. [Applause.]
Mr President, you ridicule black people and their landlessness, yet you tell them to dream about bullet trains and new cities. On what land? That is why we are saying by the end of 2019 the Sixth Parliament should finalise the land question and all the land must be in the custody of the state. The Sixth Parliament must pass the necessary legislation and the EFF will table a land redistribution Act and an agrarian reform Act. We must ensure that the legislation to redistribute land clearly states a minimum of 50% of the land must be controlled by women and youth in particular. [Applause.] We must abolish foreign ownership.
The Sixth Parliament must draft all these laws in such a way that we establish legal structures to manage and distribute land to all those needed for productive and residential purposes. Now, because you are suffering from a poverty of ideas, should it happen that you run out of that, come to the EFF. [Applause.]
We must ensure that people's right to land is protected and not subjected to abuse by state officials and mining companies, like what Mr Gwede Mantashe and his Australian company are doing to the people of Xolobeni. To do this properly, we must develop a system to land rights registration to ensure that communal and customary land rights are recordable and afforded the same protection as other forms of rights. We do not say this to render traditional leaders in our communities useless and irrelevant. Our traditional leaders still have a role to play in our communities, including the process to allocate land to all people, in particular women and the youth. I'm repeating this for the second time.
If you are serious about giving our people rights to land, you must equally resource land courts to speed up resolutions of all
land-related disputes. We cannot allow a situation where one acting judge is appointed to hear all land-related matters without the necessary support or resources. We must set up the ad hoc committee to start working on the modalities of the amendment of section 25 of the Constitution.
Mr President, if you are going to change and disown your party conference resolution that is your problem. Don't tag us and don't say we did not warn you.
As the EFF, we have made a commitment to our people. We are the generation that has discovered its mission and we intend to fulfill it. We will do so because we know victory is certain and our people will have the land. Amandla! [Applause.]
I want to say to my sister, Comrade Zindzi Mandela, that we are behind you. The struggle continues. Thank you. [Applause.]