Hon House Chairperson, the EFF rises to respond to the Budget Vote speech of the hon Minister Gigaba. At the outset I should state that we are unhappy with the budget and herewith register our reasons why we shall not vote for this department's budget.
The Minister's predecessor, hon Pandor, on the occasion of her Budget Vote speech, had this to say last year, and I quote:
Since 1994 our ANC government has worked hard to ensure Home Affairs restores dignity to all, creates systems for a secure identity, and promotes international friendships.
Molefi Ntsoele of Lesotho, Dipotaneng, was eager to fly one day and indeed he did fly - in his coffin for burial in his home country. Stelega Gadlela of Dvokolwako in Swaziland never lived to care for his big African family.
I refer to these matters of the workers' struggle in Marikana because an ANC deployee ... [Interjections.] ... ruled that it is unparliamentary to attribute the massacre of the Marikana workers to the government of the ruling party, yet it is parliamentary to say that the ANC government has worked hard to promote international friendships.
We have referred to that opening statement of your predecessor in order to expose the hypocrisy and inconsistency of the ruling party in government - indicating left, but turning right, in the best interests of the white monopoly capital of the imperialists of London, and in cahoots with what the Minister in the Presidency, hon Radebe, calls the "black bourgeoisie". This department saved the shameful faces of the unremorseful leadership of the Independent Electoral Commission from public scrutiny by ensuring that it was not dragged screaming to the committee briefing. It is only ...