Deputy Speaker, at the committee level we rejected the appointment of President Zuma's adviser. We are saying that this is a political appointment. It is clear daylight robbery.
The EFF is a Marxist-Leninist Fanonian organisation, whose ideology is very clear on gender issues. [Interjections.] The former IEC chairperson was a woman. She can't be replaced by a man and the EFF be expected to sell the gender struggle, while we have capable women in our land. It can't be - not in our name.
The only remaining woman commissioner, Ms Taljaard, has resigned from the IEC. That must tell you that something is wrong in the IEC. There is no woman left in the IEC at the moment. It is not in the best interests of the gender struggle to have a male replacing a woman. It is an insult, in short.
It is also not in the best interests of free and fair elections for such a body to be led by a person with a close and intimate relationship with the president of the ruling party, which wants to cling to power, no matter what. The EFF rejects this. Forward with the gender struggle! [Applause.]