Chairperson, the EFF rejects Budget Vote No 8: Women, Children and People with Disabilities because of these observations. The duty to empower our women has been ghettoised into one department within the Presidency. It is the duty of all departments to have a women's desk and to have set targets for the employment and economic empowerment of our people. All efforts by this regime have been window dressing.
A budget allocated for programmes standing at R92,3 million ... ... is lagwekkend. Twintig jaar later is ons ekonomie steeds net 'n seunsklub. Die seunsklub is ook deel van die politiek. Ons kan dit sien aan die feit dat sewe uit die nege premiers wat deur julle President aangestel is mans is. [Tussenwerpsels.] Ons meisies mis steeds skool, omdat hulle nie sanitre doekies het nie, en dan kom die Minister hierheen en s dat hulle sanitre doekies aflewer. Wanneer vind dit plaas? Hulle lewer meer kondome af as sanitre doekies. [Tussenwerpsels.] (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[... is ludicrous. Twenty years later our economy is still just an old boys club. The old boys club also found its way into politics. We can see that, given the fact that seven out of the nine premiers appointed by your President are men. [Interjections.] Our girls are still missing school, because they do not have sanitary towels, and then the Minister comes here and tells us that they deliver sanitary towels. When does this happen? They deliver more condoms than sanitary towels. [Interjections.]]
Until women's empowerment is no longer simply a buzzword - and you should be ashamed to scream like that, like Thandi Modise's pigs! [Interjections.] Until women's empowerment is no longer simply a buzzword and can translate into real economic empowerment of women, the EFF will not support this budget.