Mr Speaker and honourable House, I stand here as a former member of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans with Mr Dlali. We worked very hard with him, in our understanding of the task before us as parliamentarians. We agreed that when we were in the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, our politics had to be left at the door before we entered into the discussions, so that we made sure when we were dealing with Defence Force matters that we were all united, because we were defending the country. He was a loyal member of the committee and a hard-working member of the ANC as I knew him.
He was a good gentleman, full of jokes, full of understanding of what was happening around the Defence Force and full of understanding of what the discussion was all about.
We pass on our condolences to his family and friends and to his organisation.
Okubi ukuthi abantu bafe ngezandla zabanye abantu. Kuhle uma umuntu ethathwa yiNkosi ngoba egulile kodwa ukufa ngokubulawa yikona okungafuneki ngempela. Siyethemba amaphoyisa azokwenza umsebenzi wawo abambe izigebengu. Ulale ngoxolo Dlali siyokukhumbula njalo. Ngiyabonga. (Translation of isiZulu paragraph follows.)
[It is very sad when people die at the hands of others. We are usually comforted when death occurs as a result of an illness because then it means that the Lord has called them back to Him. Being murdered is to die a horrible death. I hope that the police will do their job properly and the murderers will be arrested for this crime. Rest in peace, Dlali, you will always be in our thoughts and in our hearts. Thank you.]