January 30th, 2012
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 Eastern Cape to ensure value for money.
Concerning public works, I want to establish a norm that contracts for the maintenance of state buildings go to local entrepreneurs. In this way unemployment is reduced and skills are transferred.
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January 30th, 2012
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 a go slow, resulting in a multitude of schools without their full complement of teachers.
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December 7th, 2011
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 R27.5 million additional transfers to political parties.
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on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 3:35 pm and is filed under Bobby Stevenson, Letters and Opinions, Speak Out.
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November 21st, 2011
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 link of this nature will pave the way for the upliftment of communities in Butterworth, Dutywa and Mthatha. So far the communities mentioned have only benefited slightly from the Agri-tourism industry. Having a functional railway will allow the community nodes to transform to light industry nodes — such as East London — where medium to large business can invest and make significant dents in the unemployment rate of the province’s most rural areas.
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on Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 12:26 pm and is filed under John Cupido, Letters and Opinions, Speak Out.
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November 14th, 2011
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 appeal, it must be questioned as to why they are doing so.
The Herald article states the basis of the appeal was that Duduka was wrong in ruling that the report was in the public interest and must be released immediately. Perhaps, too, the cause for appeal shows the lust of the ruling party for a press tribunal and curbs on free flow journalism.
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