But, ultimately, I think it's important for me to clarify the position that he tried to infer was the DA's. It has always interested me how quick the ANC is to try and make it look like the DA policy is callous, uncaring and unfeeling, when there is plenty of evidence, both in our government and in our programmes of action, that it is not.
What we advocate, Prof Turok, is not a free market. We advocate a market which allows people to fulfil that potential by providing them with basic services, basic education, basic health care, transport, infrastructure - the means to start from a minimum basic level and then to make choices about what to do with their future. [Applause.] What is so wrong with that? Why must the government be at the centre of everything? If you are in business, government must decide how you make money. If you are one of the poorest of the poor, government must decide how and where services must be allocated to you. Why not give people the freedom to make these choices? This is what the DA advocates, not the distortion he tried to put forward in this House. [Applause.]
Mr Speaker, earlier in today's debate the President announced that he would be launching the presidential national dialogue on a common national identity later this year. This follows the hon President's call earlier this year for a national debate on South Africa's morality. Now, as a liberal political organisation, the DA has always had an in-principle objection ... [Interjections.]