I want to thank the DA community for their support during my medical disability in 2011. I confirm that I am back and available. My new portfolios in the legislature are 1) Roads and Public Works. 2) Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. I will once again be focussing on the maintenance of roads in the [...]

It comes as no surprise why parents in the Eastern Cape are choosing to move their children, albeit at great costs and financial sacrifices, to the Western Cape to complete their education. The Eastern Cape education is on the verge of total collapse with the post provisioning of 2012 not fully implemented and educators on [...]

There are three reasons why the Democratic Alliance is opposed to this year’s Adjustments Appropriation Bill. • The province lost R400 million that could have been rolled over that wasn’t rolled over due to incapacity to spend. • The shifts from Capital and goods and services to cover over expenditure on personnel (costs COE). • [...]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the announcement by President Zuma that a railway link joining East London and Durban is set to be built. (Ambitious plan to link coastal cities, Daily Dispatch, November 21.) This is an initiative that I have been calling for in the Provincial Parliament for the last two years. A railway [...]

THE legal appeal by the provincial Department of Local Government against the findings by Judge Dukada on the release of the Kabuso report must raise concerns about future free flow of information to the public (“MEC to appeal over finding on Kabuso”, November 8). While acknowledging the right of the MEC and his department to [...]

With reference to your headline “Bay Ward election chaos” (Weekend Post, October the Democratic Alliance has tabled a motion in the Provincial Legislature for the annulment of certain ward committee elections in the province. The motion tabled by me in September was accepted for debate.

‘The refusal of the SAPS to make crime statistics available on a more regular basis flies in the face of transparency and an open society’ THE hype around the annual release of the crime statistics earlier this month has died down. The SAPS can once more retreat behind a veil of secrecy and refuse to [...]

I wish to take issue with comments made by NMMU political analyst, Jolene Steyn-Kotze “Youth League blame for Daso win at varsity polls” (The Herald, September 23) when she is quoted as saying that the results of the Daso victory at NMMU were not reflective of the broader politics in our city. On the contrary, [...]

I WAS shocked to learn that the speaker of the Sakhisizwe municipal council, N Mananga, ejected DA councillor Murray Andrews, brother of the 1995 World Cup hero Mark Andrews, from a sitting of council on Friday for wearing his Springbok rugby jersey in support of Rugby World Cup Fridays (September 12). The DA respects and [...]

HERALD columnist Kazeka Mashologu Kuse’s article, “Rainbow nation that encompasses the poor? Dream on!” (August 30), correctly highlights the key problem facing our society today, namely the alleviation of poverty and the creation of jobs. There are 2.8 million people between the ages of 18 and 24 who are not employed or being trained for [...]