Hon Chair, I am not sure whether I want to politicise this or not. Let me just very briefly put it in the context of the ANC government's economic policy. We want to grow this economy so that we are able to meet the developmental goals that we have to achieve. The country has never been as well run for all South Africans as it is today since before 1994. The economy has grown since 1993. To my young comrade in the EFF, the economy grew at -1% in 1993. It has now gone through a dip because there has been a global dip in the economy.
In essence, the country now has to work for all its people. Of course, there are different pressures in doing so. To hon member Marais, you like the youth subsidy, and yes, the ANC has also made a decision for the youth subsidy. However, I would much rather have a Transnet or an Eskom plan to train civil engineers and artisans to grow our economy than do what the DA does in the Western Cape: spend R1 000 per month for somebody working in Kentucky Fried Chicken. That is the wage, the subsidy. I think that we have to deal with equalising and work for equality within our system, but that is a very, very, very complex issue because we are reversing many years of apartheid capital in this country.
So, each one of the state-owned enterprises that we have were structured pre-1994 to deal with the poor-white problem in this country. For example, train stations were one of the areas that ensured that poor white people were able to benefit. What we want to do at the moment is to ensure that the majority of South Africans, who are black, also benefit from an economy that grows. [Applause.]
Within that framework, since 1994 no aeroplane has actually been unable to fly because we went bankrupt.