Provincial Departments and Provincial Treasuries need to get a firm grip on their capacity to spend and they also need to take action against those officials that cannot spend budgets. I have entitled my speech “a non spender continua” because history continues to repeat itself year in and year out in this Province when it [...]

Somlomo, Nkulumbuso, abapathiswa bePhondo, amalungu eNdlu iNdwendwe zethu Ndini bulisa egameni le-DA.. I would like to begin by congratulating the speakership and the management of this institution for the clean audit without any emphasis of matter that this institution received. This is a magnificent achievement of which you can be very proud of. Particularly so [...]

JOHANNESBURG – The ANC came under fire over its “wrong priorities” for having allocated R27 million to political parties in the Eastern Cape legislature. It rejected the criticism, however, saying that the allocation, provided for in the Adjustments Appropriation Bill 2011, was standard practice and would benefit all parties.

POLITICAL parties in the Eastern Cape are in line for a cool R27-million Christmas bonus if MPLS vote in favour of the proposal at the next sitting of the provincial legislature in December. If accepted, the Christmas bonus will be divvied up among the five parties that make up the Eastern Cape legislature, with the [...]

The high rate of reported sexual crimes in the Eastern Cape and the latest Victims of Crime Survey, released today by Stats SA, highlight the vulnerability of women and children in our province. It is a timely reminder for all of us to throw our full weight behind combating crimes of violence against women and [...]

THE Eastern Cape’s rate of capital spending is the lowest in the country, causing a huge threat to growth and service delivery in the province. The province’s poor performance has been slated by economists, with one saying underspending “can’t go on any longer”.

The R1, 683 billion Adjustments Appropriation Bill tabled in the Eastern Cape provincial legislature today (subs: 23 November) has an amount of R27,5 million for transfers to all political parties for the political party fund, constituency- and caucus funds. This Christmas bonus has come as a result of under expenditure in the legislature for the [...]

Rail network would take pressure off deadly N2 PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma said an ambitious railway network that would link Cape Town and Durban would also open up economic development in the Eastern Cape and provide a viable alternative to road travel. The project, if successful, would ease pressure, congestion and road deaths on the N2 [...]

The massive under expenditure on conditional grants and capital which is largely for infrastructural spending flies in the face of government’s attempts to create jobs. It is common cause that infrastructural spending results in job creation. Government is its own worst enemy when it comes to job creation. People are crying for houses. People are [...]