Hon Deputy Speaker, comrades and friends, we here today declare once more as the ANC that the South African colonial experience was based on the intersection of class, race and gender relations ... [Interjections.] These distinctive social and biological features have been used in human history to exclude the press and stifle the progress of individuals and communities.

The struggle against colonialism of a special type sought to eliminate most of these manifestations of unequal social relations. It is documented throughout the principles and policies of the ANC - a gender question - how passionate we are in ensuring that we transform this society. [Applause.]

Those of us who today have chosen to be Marxists fail to understand a few things, and that the ANC chose one thing and one thing only.

Sikhethe ukwenza Ubuntu, ukuthanda isizwe, umanyano ngoba asinamona singenanzondo. Xa sisithi siza kuthatha umhlaba siwubuyisele kubantu abamnyama, asenziwa kukubamonela abelungu abangabanini bawo nababewuthathe ngendlela engafanelekanga. Ngelishwa ke umbutho we-EFF ukhethe ukuzenza oongqondo-ngqondo bento yonke. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)

[We chose to practice Ubuntu, to love the nation; unity because we are not jealous and we do not bear a grudge. When we say we are going to give the land back to black people, it is not because we are jealous of white people who are now owners of the land they took illegally. It is so unfortunate that the EFF chose to regard themselves as Jacks of all trades.]

Nevertheless, incumbent on the distinctive figure ... [Iterjections.]