So too is the influence of people such as Adam Small and P J Philander on poetry, and that of people such as Danny Williams, Lionel Petersen, Richard John Smith and Jonathan Butler on music. Then we must also not forget people such as Mimi Coertse, G Korsten and Carike Keuzenkamp. We must honour and remember all of them - yes, Steve Hofmeyer, too!]
To quote Stuart Hall:
When we constitute an identity which leaves some voices more marginal and leaves some voices out, that which is excluded almost always picks itself off the floor, gets itself together, and walks around to the back door, breaks a window and comes back in. It comes back in to trouble the fixed, settled, well-ordered structure of who-is-in and who-is-out.
Be careful that, in that moment of constituting the us, we don't forget to hear the them. Who is the them left out? Who is in the margin? Who is excluded? The excluded aren't going to be excluded all the time. They are going to come back and trouble the way in which we are trying to organise and classify the world.
As South Africa takes stock of the reality and status quo of citizenship, identity, and linguistic and cultural diversity within our country, let us be mindful of the statement made by President Zuma on 13 September 2012 when answering questions in this Parliament, when he stressed that, in a democracy, the majority have more rights than the minority. [Interjections.] If that is so, according to the President of South Africa, full citizenship, which includes cultural rights, will happen at the whim of the majority.
According to the IPU - and let us listen to what the world says - governments and Parliaments have a primary responsibility for managing and building common values amidst the increasing diversity of a globalised world. Indeed, their task is increasingly to protect diversity as a global value, and within the context of President Zuma's recent statements, I wish to ask the House what our contribution at the IPU will be.
Want elke Suid-Afrikaner verdien om 100% Suid-Afrikaner te wees. Die dae van tweede-en derdeklas burgers is verby. [Tussenwerpsels.] Ek dank u. [Applous.] (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[Because every South African deserves to be 100% South African. The days of being second class and third class citizens are over. [Interjections.] I thank you. [Applause.]]