Chairperson, hon Minister, Deputy Minister, MECs, former colleague Dorothy Mahlangu and hon members, I think that we should look at the overall strategy here and the fact that the department is newly established. Being newly established, it only has four programmes and just over half a billion rands to do its job, not forgetting that we have actually been working in an economy that is structurally flawed and that has been perpetuated by the former apartheid government, some members of which are sitting here today.
The fact that we lost a million jobs last year should be taken in context, because it was a secondary effect of the financial crisis that emanated from the United States where free-market fundamentalism is practised.
South Africa managed to withstand many of the financial storms because of the policies the ANC has put in place. We lost those jobs because of the second round of those effects on jobs. The idea that we have lost jobs because the ANC, or rather, the government, is living under an illusion, hon Gunda, is very disingenuous. This is because when we took over as the ANC there was growth and that growth led to the creation of more than 3,5 million jobs. So, you are living under an illusion, hon Gunda.