Modulasetilo, Tona e e tlolegang, batlotlegi ba ba tswang kwa diporofenseng tse dingwe, maloko a Ntlo e, ke a dumedisa. Ke kopilwe ke Ntlo e ka manontlhotlho go bua Setswana. Jaanong ke tla bua ka tshotlego ya bomme mo malatsing a gompieno. Rona ba ba godileng ka dingwaga tsa bo 1930- 1950 re fitlhetse batsadi ba rona ba tshela ka temothuo gonne ba ne ba na le lefatshe, megoma, didiriswa tse di tlhokegang e bile pula e na.
Morago ga gore Lekoko la Mana?enale le tseye puso ka 1948, la tla ka maano a go humenegisa mothomontsho le go dira gore a tshele ka tlala le bolwetse. Fa ba sena go tsaya puso ba dira melao ya gore batho ba seka ba tlhola ba lema. Ka mafoko a mangwe, gore ba seka ba tlhola ba na le go ka itirela ka bobona. Mora go ba laela batho go kgaola leruo la bona. Sekai, fa o na le dikgomo di le 10 ba kgaola di le 4 mme o sale ka di le 6. Ba tswelela go dira jalo mo ngwageng o o latelang fa di sena go tsala. Ka tsela eo batho ba simolola go humanega le go tshelela mo tlaleng e e neng ya lere malwetse a le gompieno re tshelang ka ona.
Ka nako eo, lelapa le ne le tshwarwa ke mme fa rre a ya go batla didiriswa go di tlisa gae. Mme o ne a di laola a bona gore mongwe le mongwe wa lelapa o tsaya kabelo e e mo lekaneng. Ka moo go ne go sena dingongorego. Balemi ba ne ba na le didiriswa tsa temo. Ka nako ya kotulo ba ne ba kopa malapa a a sa kgonang go lema go ba thusa go kotula mo masimong. Fa ba sena go kotula mmidi, mabele kgotsa dinawa mme wa lelapa o ne a tsaya karolo e e rileng mme a kgaoganye bomme ba ba mo thusitseng. Ka mafoko a mangwe, o lemile kgotsa o sa lema o ne o nna le se o se isetsang balelapa la gago morago ga kotulo.
Borre ba ne ba dira kwa meepong. Ka nako ya fa dipula di na ba ne ba tla go lema mme morago ba boele kwa meepong. Bomme ba ne ba sala ba etse tlhoko masimo, ba etse tlhoko leruo, ba etse tlhoko sengwe le sengwe sa legae. Borre ba ne ba tla ka t?helete go tshedisa malapa a bona. Morago ga 1948 dilo tsotlhe tseo tsa fedisiwa ke tlhaolele, tsa fedisiwa ke go kgaolela batho dilo, tsa fedisiwa ke gore batho ba se ka ba se tlhola ba lema.
Mokgatlho wa rona o lwantshitse tlhaolele, e fedile fa ke bua jaana. (Translation of Setswana paragraphs follows.)
[Mr G G MOKGORO: Chairperson, hon Minister, dignitaries from other provinces, members of this House, good afternoon. This House requested me to speak Setswana. So, I am now going to speak about women's hardships nowadays. Our generation that grew up in the 1930-1950s found our parents surviving through agriculture because they had land, coulters, necessary resources and it used to rain.
After the National Party took over the government in 1948, it came with plans to make black people live in poverty and disease. After assuming power they made laws that told people not to plough anymore. In other words, they could no longer be independent. After that they instructed people to cull their herd. For example, if you had 10 cattle they would cull 4 so that you were left with 6. They would continue to do that the following year after the cows had given birth. In that way people became poor and lived in poverty, which brought diseases that we have even today.
At that time, a family was under the woman's care while the man had to find food to bring home. The woman had to make sure that every family member received a fair share. Therefore there were no complaints.
Farmers had farming resources. During the harvesting season they asked families that could not plough to help them harvest. After harvesting maize, wheat or beans the mother of the house would take a certain portion and share it amongst the women who helped her. In other words, whether you ploughed or not you had something to take to your family after the harvesting season.
Men were working at the mines. During a rainy season they would come home to plough and afterwards go back to the mines. Women would stay behind to take care of the fields, the herd and everything that belonged to their families. Men would bring money to take care of their families. After 1948 all that was brought to an end by apartheid. It was ended by the reducing of people's herds; it ended because people were not allowed to plough anymore.
Our party fought against apartheid; it no longer exists as I speak.]
I'd like to direct what I'm going to say to the Minister, Comrade Gugile Nkwinti. I feel that his appointment as the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform was one of the best decisions of the President. I have respect for him; he is a committed man and I know he is going to succeed. Two months ago, he became the first Minister to invite us to unveil a project on rural development in Giyani. I could only see the potential of development, and I could see the commitment of the Minister in that during his tenure he would like to see the lives of many people being changed, especially those of women.
Mr Minister, I am from the Northern Cape and recently during our provincial week we undertook what is called in the NCOP an oversight visit. We went around the region and took the delegation to four points as we wanted them to see what was taking place there. At those four points there are natural resources: water, land, people and the sun. People staying adjacent to these resources do not use the water. The water is only used by the big commercial farmers.
We took the delegation to Vaalharts and Spitskop - I would like you to write down these names. Vaalharts is a big irrigation scheme which, according to the media, is the biggest in the southern hemisphere. We then took them to Spitskop, a big dam which is almost the size of Lake Tanganyika. The caretaker told us that the dam holds about 6 million kilolitres. Next to these facilities there are big settlements of African communities, but they do not enjoy any of these. We need to ...