I hope you will be able to recover my time. Thank you. We have invited honourable veterans here. Some of them have lost husbands; some of them have lost children. Mme Ruth has lost two children to the struggle, to this cause. Chris Hani's wife is here ... She lost her husband. [Applause.] We have the wife of Joe Modise here. All of these people have given so much to us, so that we can sit here. [Applause.] And they sit here and what we have given them is shocking. My sincerest apologies; I want you to know that we are terribly sorry about this. We honour you every day; we honour your loved ones who have passed on.
I would like to say to the hon Esau that it is a breath of fresh air that from your party should come somebody who is able to talk sense on these matters. For the past three years, hon Esau, your party has been done a severe disservice, because all that our soldiers in the country have heard from your party is negativity, talking down the Defence Force, calling them useless and using all manner of hate speech. I wonder what the Defence Force thinks of you. [Interjections.]
I know that the one thing they would never contemplate is that you care. On a number of occasions we have warned the man next to you - the hon man next to you - that he is doing his country ... [Interjections.] I couldn't care! That man next to you. But what I can tell you, what I can tell you ... [Interjections.] No. Chairperson, I called him the hon member next to him and ... [Interjections.] No, I won't. It is not necessary. It is not necessary. [Interjections.] But I can tell you ...