House Chair, and all protocol observed, allow me to congratulate the hon Deputy Chair on the questions she has just asked. We should all ask ourselves those questions. We should take this House very seriously. Today I am going to speak from my heart and forget about the speech that is in front of me. The first thing that you should really know is that this is a serious budget. Since we are claiming that this is the people's Parliament, as members, we should ask ourselves if we are serving the people who voted for us, doing justice to the provinces, and are delivering the service to them. I believe that the increment of this budget is not much. Our important role is to provide oversight so that people can know the meaning and understand the purpose of the NCOP.
Through the media, we should go out there and make South Africans understand what the NCOP stands for. Fighting amongst ourselves when our people out there are suffering is not going to help us. As the NCOP, we should be hands-on concerning our oversight role and service delivery in the provinces.
The ID does not believe that allowing Ministers to devise their own ministerial handbook will achieve anything in terms of cutting down on expenses. Instead, the ID believes that an ad hoc committee consisting of all parties from both Houses should revise that ministerial handbook in order to bring it in line with the slogan, "Working together we can do more for our people". If we are serious, we will use that slogan to implement that and to see to it that people on the ground are getting the service. I believe that this House can do anything. There is nothing that is impossible for this House.
I believe that the NCOP has the capacity. When I listened to the people who debated in this House today, they all had the capacity. They had everything inside them to see to it that the Rules in this House are implemented in each and every province, so that the people can understand what the NCOP does in this country. I thank you. [Applause.]
UMntwana M M M ZULU: Sihlalo, ungixolele ngoba eNgilandi ngeke ngiye ngiseAfrika. Sihlalo womhlangano namalungu ahloniphekile ale Ndlu, kanye nezivakashi zethu ezikhona. Nami ngithi angizojoyina bonke abaningi asebekhulumile ngendaba yePhalamende kulo nyaka.
Bese sifisela impumelelo bonke abakhona abalisebenzelayo kulonyaka noma ungakapheli. Sihlalo, ngithi kuleminyaka eyishumi nesithupha eyedlule sakwazi ukuthi sithole intando yeningi sibe nomthethosisekelo wethu okuyiwona laba abafundile abathi yi "Supreme law of our land".
Ngithi ke kufuneka sibone ukuthi sihlukanise phakathi kwesikuzuzile nesingakuzuzanga ngoba njengabantu kufuneka sikwazi ukubheka ukuthi yikuphi esikuzuzile futhi yikuphi esingakuzuzanga. Lapho kufuneka singamalungu ePhalamende noma amalungu eSishayamthetho Sikazwelonke, namalungu eNdlu Yomkhandlu Kazwelonke Wezifundazwe siyohlala phansi sibheke ukuthi yikuphi esingakuzuzanga. Singenzenjani ukuze sikuzuze ukuze kusizakale abantu bakithi.
Bakithi, uma sibheka kulokhu kubhekwa kweMinyango kahulumeni lokhu abafundile abathi yi "oversight" ngithi kuwumsebenzi obaluleke kakhulu Sihlalo wale Ndlu ukuthi lomsebenzi wenzeke ngoba isibopho sokuchaza ngokwenzekayo yinto edingekayo kunoma yimuphi omunye umuntu kuleli lizwe. Ngoba uma ungenaso isibopho sokuchaza ngokwenzekayo kusho ukuthi usebenza nje, uyadunguza nje, nokugxekwa kufuneka ukuba ugxeke ngokwakhayo ukuze bakwazi nabantu ukuthi izinto zihamba kanjani.
Ngithi alukho nolulodwa usuku lapho kufuneka siziqhenye singabantu abamnyama baseNingizimu Afrika, noma njengabantu baseNingizimu Afrika, abahluphekayo bonke ukuba sikwazi ukuthi siphucule izimpilo zabantu bakithi bonke bakwazi ukuphumelela.
Bakithi lokho okuzuziwe obabamkhulu, abakuzuzanga baze bahamba belwela leli lizwe kuwo wonke amagumbi e-Afrika ngoba yonke indoda emnyama kuleli lizwe iyazi ukuthi amadoda amnyama alwa kanjani, elwa kukubi kungemnandi. Ubabomkhulu akaguqanga ngamadolo ephezu kogogo nje, waye la eSt Helena, eNorthern Cape, kwesakho De Beer ehlezi khona iminyaka. Akaze aguqa. Ngithi kulokho ke Sihlalo ngicela ukuthi njengeqembu leNkatha siyasesekela iSabiwomali ukuba sisetshenziswe kahle sikwazi ukusiza izidingo zabantu abampisholo kulelizwe. Ngiyabonga. (Translation of isiZulu speech follows.)
[Prince M M M ZULU: Chairperson, you will pardon me because I will not speak English while I am in Africa. Chairperson of the Council, hon members of this House, as well as our guests who are present, I just want to join all those who have spoken before me about the performance of Parliament this year.
We also wish all those who work for Parliament success this year, although the year has not yet ended. In the past 16 years we managed to bring about democracy and have our Constitution which is referred to by academics as the supreme law of our land.
I want say that we must separate what we have achieved from what we have not because as people we must be able to recognise what we have achieved and what we have not. What is expected of us as Members of Parliament or as members of the National Assembly, and as members of the National Council of Provinces, is to sit down and check what we did not achieve. What can we do to achieve it in order to assist our people?
Hon members, if we look at our monitoring function with regard to the government departments, which our academics refer to as oversight, I want to say that it is very important, Chairperson of this House, that this job should be done thoroughly because it is the responsibility of every person in this country to account about what is happening. If you do not have the responsibility to explain what is happening it means that you are not doing your best, that you have no direction and that you must be criticised constructively so that our people are informed of what is going on. There should not be a single day when we are proud as black people of South Africa, or as South Africans who are destitute. We must be able to make the lives of all our people better in order for them to succeed in life.
Hon members, what has been achieved by our grandfathers? They did not achieve anything; they died fighting for this country in Africa because every black man in this country knows that men fight under difficult circumstances. My grandfather did not consummate his relationship because he was imprisoned here in St Helena, in the Western Cape, where you reside, Mr De Beer. He lived there for a number of years. He never surrendered. In that context, as the IFP, we support the budget and it should be utilised effectively so that it could cater for the needs of black people in this country. Thank you.]]