The Democratic Alliance (DA) is shocked, but not surprised by the findings of the Daily Dispatch investigation of the state of the state morgues in the Eastern Cape and believes that the Department of Health (DOH) is in fact the rotting corpse itself. The Portfolio Committee on Health must as a matter of urgency conduct [...]

The Democratic Alliance is dismayed with the commentary given by the Department of Health spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, to the release of the Humans Rights Watch report on maternal health care and mortality rates in South Africa which highlights the Eastern Cape as the worst of the worst. The maternal and infant mortality rates seen in [...]

“DA MPL and the opposition’s health spokesperson John Cupido said the report was a vindication of problems the opposition party had raised with government at State hospitals.” GOVERNMENT hospitals have been condemned in a damning report that has revealed how hundreds of women in labour were pinched, slapped, sent home without pain medication and even [...]

The members of the Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape Legislature, Bobby Stevenson, Edmund van Vuuren, Dacre Haddon and John Cupido will be participating in the provincial Mandela Day celebration that will be held at Sephepheto Junior School near Fiva Village near Matatiele today. (Subs: Monday 18 July). MPLs will be planting trees and sowing [...]

THE DA yesterday vowed to keep the ruling party on its toes in the municipalities in Transkei where it has representation. “Things will never be the same. We will hold them accountable,” DA deputy provincial leader Bobby Stevenson said.

SEVERAL positive changes have been effected at Queenstown’s Komani Psychiatric Hospital since a Daily Dispatch exposé detailed atrocious conditions there. A sense of hope has been injected into the hospital’s corridors and staff members spoke of the pride they felt as they witnessed some drastic changes taking place over the past week.

The shocking Komani Psychiatric Hospital incident is a siren call for a total overhaul of how the health department is managed in the Eastern Cape. Top management is clearly out of touch and this issue goes deeper than simply suspending officials at the Komani Hospital. Why does it take the media and the portfolio committee [...]

Hon. Speaker, Madam Premier, Hon. Members of the House, and Guests of the House… The report tabled by the Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture Portfolio Committee today shows nothing more than the blatant disregard that the department has for this House of Parliament, each one of the members sitting here, the ruling party of this [...]

DA tourism spokesperson John Cupido said it was ironic that Bayworld was being used to market the area as a tourist drawcard when the “province did not fight very hard to keep the complex going”. THE Eastern Cape tourism industry has reacted with horror after it was revealed that international delegates at a prestigious travel [...]