Madam Acting Speaker, we need clarity on this matter, if you will just allow me to speak. If we are busy with Members' Statements, it can only be the Rules that direct the Members' Statements. Now, let me read from the Rules. I would like to refer the hon Chief Whip of the ANC to Rule 105(1), which provides:
A member, other than the Deputy President, a Minister (or a Deputy Minister) ... may be recognised by the (Presiding Officer) to make a statement on any matter for not more than one and a half minutes.
That is "on any matter".
I would like to contend, hon Acting Speaker, that that is indeed what was done by the two members of the opposition. If the ANC are uncomfortable, that is their problem, but there is ample opportunity in the Rules for the members of the executive who are present in this House to respond to statements made by members in the ranks of the opposition. Thank you.