Hon Speaker, hon President, hon Deputy President, hon members and hon guests, the PAC of Azania welcomes the President's admission that the "willing-robber, willingly robbed" land distribution policy does not work. [Applause.] [Laughter.] Our forebears took up arms to defend the land and its riches.
Ya lla koto, ya kgutla naha, mobu le matekwane a yona. [The land returns, the soil and its plants.]
The return of the land must be the first prize of the revolution. Let democracy be a bonus. Any liberation minus the return of our land, the liberation of every grain of soil, is a Mickey Mouse liberation - the ultimate, laughable, make-believe liberation. Africa always was and always will be the African land. Until such time that the land question is decisively resolved in favour of Africans, the whole of the liberation struggle would be in vain. Until that happens, the African people will remain the drawers of water and hewers of wood in the land of their forefathers and foremothers.
Lehumo le t?wa t?hemong, ga le t?we lefaufaung. Ebile molato wa t?hemo o sekwa t?hemong. Ga o sekwe ka ngwakong goba ka mafuri. [Disego.] [Nothing falls from the sky. No one must earn what they did not work hard for.]
At first, the colonisers gave us the Bible and usurped the land. Today, the neocolonisers have given us the Constitution, and retained the ownership of the land. [Laughter.] They even call it the best Constitution under the sun. Our Constitution glorifies land robbery and justifies colonial looting through the property section. [Laughter.]
Nxamalala, xa uthetha ngomhlaba uyinyathele emsileni. [Uwelewele.] Uliqule uligangathe mfo kaMsholozi, andikuthelekisi xa ndisitsho. [Kwahlekwa.] Usikele uPoqo enqatheni xa uthetha ngomhlaba. [Kwahlekwa.] [Nxamlala, when you speak about land, you are stirring up trouble. [Interjections.] You must be ready for war, son of Msholozi, but I am not waging war. [Laughter.] You must share with the PAC when you speak about land. [Laughter.]]
Hon President, the PAC welcomes the good news that the government seeks to eliminate all forms of abusive practices inherent in labour broking. The present slave traders, euphemistically known as labour brokers, have exploited job seekers long enough. [Applause.] They take as much as 70% of their victims' monthly income. That is slavery.
Hon President, we welcome the creation of 365 000 jobs during 2011. The PAC wants to know how many jobs were created as a result of the multibillion rand arms deal.
While we welcome heritage projects regarding Sobukwe's home and grave, we are concerned that the ruling party never honours heroic PAC leaders and events, except for one leader: Sobukwe. [Interjections.]