Die kommersile sektor is oorheers deur ryk monopoliekapitaal wat nie honger ken nie. Ons praat hier met die armoedige mense. Ons praat nie met mense wat in rykdom grootgeword het nie, wie net die lekker lewe geken het en nooit honger gaan slaap het nie. Ons praat met onsself, die armoediges.
Gedurende hierdie tydperk is die meeste kleurling en swart kusgemeenskappe wat buite die aangewese Bantustans gewoon het van die toegang wat hulle tradisioneel tot die see en lewende mariene hulpbronne gehad het, ontneem. Kleinskaalvissers is gedwing om vir die vismaatskappye, onder monopolie- eienaarskap, te werk. [Tussenwerpsels.] Sover is dit die klein, medium en mikro-ondernemings, KMMOs, wat die meeste werk teen die kus skep.
Monopoliekapitaal verdrink ons mense. Ons het lyke in die see wat ons vandag nog nie kan kry nie. Ons soek na liggame van mense van wie niemand praat nie. Waar is die aktiviste wat hier gepraat het en ges het dat hulle vir die arm mense praat? Kom help ons om daardie lyke uit die see te kry. Laat ons die name vir julle gee. Daar sit uTata van Khayelitsha wat, omdat hy isiXhosa praat, nie in die Wes-Kaap kop toe gevat word nie. [Applous.] (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Ms M N PHALISO: The commercial sector was ruled by rich monopoly capital, which knows no hunger. We are now talking with the impoverished people. We are not talking with people who grew up wealthy, who knew only the good life en never went to sleep hungry. We are talking with ourselves, the impoverished.
During this period most of the coloured and black communities living outside the designated Bantustans were deprived of their traditional access to the sea and living marine resources. Small-scale fishermen were forced to work for the fishing companies, under monopoly ownership. [Interjections.] So far it is the small, medium and micro enterprises which have been creating most of the jobs along the coast.
Monopoly capital is drowning our people. Today there are corpses in the sea that we still cannot find. We are looking for the bodies of people about whom nobody will speak. Where are the activists who spoke here, saying that they were doing so on behalf of the poor people? Come and help us retrieve those bodies from the sea. We can give you the names. There sits uTata from Khayelitsha who, because he speaks isiXhosa, is not taken seriously in the Western Cape. [Applause.]]
Today is the date on which we can finally undo the shackles of a century of oppressive legislative legacy and restore to those whom we claim to represent their age-old and biblically recorded right to sustain a livelihood for themselves, their families and their communities from the bountiful natural resources - the living marine resources - that occur in our two oceans along our magnificent 3 000 km coastline. Let us today restore their dignity and freedom and ignore the misleading falsehood of a nave political opportunist, a bogus advocate and a thief of coastal community fishing wealth. I thank you, hon Chairperson. [Applause.]
The MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES: Hon Chairperson, today is really a wonderful day. I am absolutely happy. Deputy President, today is a victory for the poor.
On 3 May 2012 the hon Van Dalen said, "The Small-Scale Fishing Policy is ideologically moribund" - I repeat, "moribund", - "and devoid of any understanding of the economics of the industry."
I can give the hon Van Dalen a list of all the Hansard records in which he spoke against the Small-Scale Fisheries Policy. He spoke against any small- scale fishing community, and he only supported the big industries. [Interjections.] The big industries are their constituency; they are their friends and families. Now that it is voting time, it is they who need you. You can get the Hansard. It is right here.
What "moribund" means, according to the Free Dictionary, is that it is "approaching death; about to die." It is in a state of being near death. Was Van Dalen predicting that the DA was about to die? Is it at the stage of death? Is it on the verge of becoming obsolete? Or was he saying that his own party was a moribund political party that was breathing its last breath? Was he saying that he, himself, was moribund and that he was on his last legs? Such hypocrisy has been exposed today. The chameleon has been exposed. [Interjections.]
Hon Bhanga said that this policy, which we passed in 2010 and on which they have been fighting me since 2010, would never become a reality, and would never be the basis of a Bill, and that Bill would never be enacted in Parliament. Today, hon Bhanga, you are a chameleon. [Laughter.]
Hon Van Dalen, when you saw that opposing the Bill would cost you votes, you changed your tune. [Laughter.] [Interjections.] We are touching a very sore nerve. This is real economic transformation. We are taking the wealth away from the rich, and we are giving it to the poor. [Interjections.] But is not the Robin Hood principle. You have heard the DA saying that those people just want to be fishermen and fisherwomen. We have news for you. They want to be educated, they want to be business people, they want business plans, and they want AGMs. Hon member, you are so condescending that it is derogatory and racist. I am so happy that you have been exposed today. Thank you. [Interjections.] [Applause.]