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 [...]

THE Eastern Cape government has overspent by almost R1-billion on staffing during the first six months of the financial year, meaning that personnel costs are now running at a whopping 80% of the total provincial budget. Following the announcement, made to the Finance Portfolio Committee this week, that R889-million had been overspent, DA Finance spokesman [...]

“This action points to poor intelligence and poor policing” — Bobby Stevenson POLICE have launched an immediate investigation after a trigger-happy group of police officers, believed to be members of the crack National Intervention Unit (NIU), this week allegedly gunned down an innocent man in his home in a tragic case of mistaken identity. The [...]

The 19 Eastern Cape residents that were tragically killed in Wednesday’s taxi accident should serve as a wake-up call to the provincial traffic authorities that more needs to be done to keep death off our roads. This is particularly so in the run-up to the festive season when traffic volumes between provinces increase at a [...]

The red lights are flashing for the blue light bullies in our province.  I have tabled a question for written reply to the Premier, Noxolo KivIet, to ask how she is going to stop this practice.  For the question, click here: Premier Blue Lights Last year Western Cape cabinet passed a resolution which ordered that [...]

This is an extremely damning but very forthright report which, if properly studied, will ensure that policing is improved dramatically in this district. For policing to be effective, one needs to get the basics right but in our visits to some of the Police Stations in the Chris Hani District, it was clear that the [...]

OPPOSITION parties want answers from the Nelson Mandela Bay ANC chief whip about a R2.5-million constituency allowance which allegedly was not split among political parties as intended. DA leader Leon de Villiers, who demanded answers from chief whip Feziwe Sibeko in a council meeting two weeks ago, said constituency allowances had been in the budget [...]