Thank you for that protection, Chairperson. Thank you, Chairperson. Of course they require a tree when they need to do this thing.
Agb Groenewald, die ouditeurs is besig. Hulle is besig met 'n volledige ondersoek rakende SA Express. Ons moet seker maak dat ons u uitnooi na die komiteevergadering toe wanneer ons dit doen. U moet net asseblief 'n bietjie geduld h wanneer ons dit aanpak. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[Hon Groenewald, the auditors are active. They are engaged in a full investigation relating to SA Express. We must ensure that we invite you to the committee meeting when we deal with it. Please, just have a little patience when we tackle it.]
It has been very interesting to listen to the DA this afternoon. It started off very, very well, I must say, and ended very well, I must also say.
It's absolutely great what we have heard here today. We heard what you said and we are happy that you support the ANC when we said that there is a decline in the budget of the department. We are on record as saying that, and we are glad that at last we are agreeing with each other. You started off very well by talking about economic growth, but then, of course, there we go, a solution has been given to this House that of course will lead to job losses. We should now do all of these other things with SAA.
Let me say the ANC is simply not going to be able to support anything that goes towards further job losses through privatisation. It must be said that it would be folly to use once-off revenue, to sell SAA, to finance recurrent expenditure. This would amount, hon member, to the proverbial selling of the family silver to buy groceries. We cannot support anything like that. [Interjections.] Regarding arguments by the IFP for us to privatise further, this will not necessarily result in exposure to greater competition and greater efficiency than state-owned enterprises. In the extreme, privatisation will simply entail the replacement of a state monopoly with a private monopoly. I thank you very much. [Time expired.]