Thank you, hon Chair. Unfortunately, this is not a rally. There are Rules, regulations, procedures ... [Interjections.]
However, we must challenge the selective solidarity and sympathy that is given the workers of Marikana by the EFF. Their choice of solidarity is determined by the membership of the workers whose lives were lost, and only the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, Amcu, members' lives have been deserving of the solidarity and sympathy of the EFF. Just last week, former Amcu shop steward, Aaron Mavimbela, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, guilty of killing a National Union of Mineworkers, NUM, shop steward, Jacques Naud, who left behind his wife, Elsa, and her two children, Rupert and Xanthe.
As we meet here today to debate the challenges facing the youth, there is a certain Mr X who is testifying at the Farlam Commission, where one of the fighters, Adv Dali Mpofu, is raking in millions as a representative of the families of the workers. Mr X has testified under oath that he participated in the torture and murder of two security guards, Hassan Fundi and Frans Mabelani, at the instruction of their sangoma [traditional healer], so that their body parts could be mixed with "intelezi" For the hon Maimane, that is black magic. [Laughter.]