House Chair, hon members, guests, conceptually there is nothing wrong with both the principal Act and the amending Bill.
Azapo has always supported the need to tamper with power relations in the country, including changing ownership patterns. Being a product of the philosophy of black consciousness, I find it strange that the country has retrogressed and we find ourselves having further divided the oppressed of our land.
We were under the impression that the question of who is a black person had been settled in the late 1960s when Black Consciousness defined black people as those who are legally, politically, socially and economically oppressed and segregated; who identify as a group in the struggle for freedom. Black Consciousness rejected the division of black people into smaller groups of so-called Africans, coloureds and Indians. We have been called many things in the past. Black people are now referred to as the previously disadvantaged. There is nothing previous in the suffering of our people; they are still suffering even today.
Azapo agrees that fronting should be clearly criminalised and that it was difficult to depend only on common law to deal with fronting. Azapo will therefore support the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Bill. I thank you. [Applause.]
MODULASETULO WA NTLO (Mong M B Skosana): Pele o tsamaya ntate Dikobo, ke itse Dikobo, ba re Dikobo. Ke eng?