South Africa Now Needs Skilled

I Think That Probably The Most Important Thing About Our Education Was That It Taught Us To Question Even Those Things We Thought We Knew.

That Is One Of The Reasons Why We Have Raised This Matter About The Need To Focus Quite Sharply On The Function Of Local Government, But Also On The Resourcing Of Local Government. Because It May Very Well Be That We Say To Local Government, You Have Got To Run An Indigent Policy.

We Identified Various Sectors Of The Economy, Which We Said Were Growth Sectors. I Have Mentioned Tourism. We Said, For Instance, Agro-business. We Grow A Lot Of Food And Fruit And Things Like That. It Must Be Possible To Process Those.

The Matter Of Social Security And These Grants Is To Help To Address The Levels Of Poverty In The Country.

I Must Say That, In The First Instance, We Got The Request From Many African Countries Who Said, Look, You People Had Better Host The Parliament. So, The General Feeling Around The Continent Was That It Would Be Better That The Parliament Was Based Here. In Part, Because Of What This Country Has Done With Regard To Establishing A Democratic System, And We Have Responded To That. We Have Said, Fine.