Honourable Speaker, Honourable Premier, Members of the Executive Council, Honourable members in the house and guests present here today, allow me to state unequivocally that it is indeed an honour and a privilege to present a report as a member of the Democratic Alliance, on the performance of the Provincial Department of Education for the [...]

Honourable Speaker, Madam Premier, Executive Council, Members of the Legislature, officials and visitors. The Democratic Alliance wants to say something positive about road development in the province. However, given the situation of the state of our roads it is difficult indeed to be positive about this.

Honourable Speaker, Honourable Premier and protocol observed, allow me respond to reports submitted by the Office of The Premier. Honourable Speaker, the Office of Premier must be commended for receiving an unqualified audit outcome for the financial year 2010/11. However, there are matters of emphasis, that were also observed, and which relates to:

Honourable Speaker, Madam Premier, Executive Council, Members of the Legislature officials, guests and media -greetings to you all. Local government is the coalface of service delivery. It is plain that all parties in this legislature are striving to uplift the living conditions of all our communities.

Speaker, Madam Premier, Executive Council, Honourable Members of this Legislature, Officials, Guests. I greet you. We must acknowledge the effort being made in restructuring the department. We encourage the MEC and the HOD to continue with their good work in trying to turn around this department. This is a positive move and deserves our support [...]

Honourable Speaker, Madam Premier, the Executive, members of the legislature, officials and guests good afternoon. One of the main functions of this Legislature is the upholding of the law and ensuring fair democratic processes within the law take place as prescribed.

This department is technically sound. It has competent people working for it. It is reasonably well managed and it continues to receive unqualified audit reports leading the Province in the consecutive number in a row. In short it is doing things right but the question which I, and members of the portfolio committee have is [...]

This bill is based on the recommendations of this House that was approved by SCOPA in June of this year. Although the Provincial Revenue Fund also has sufficient funds to cover the unauthorised expenditure contained in this Bill for 2007/8 through to 2009/10, this Bill must not be seen as a cure for the Province’s [...]

There are three reasons why the Democratic Alliance is opposed to this Adjustment 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 [...]

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 [...]