Dear editor
Cosatu’s commitment to ensuring the best people get the job and tenders (Cosatu wants anti-corruption role at Bhisho, DD, 20 January 2010) is refreshing.
However, the arch enemy of ensuring that the best people get the job and tenders is the ANC’s strategy of cadre redeployment. This custom results in people getting jobs and tenders not based on what they know or what they can do but on what they are connected to. Read more…
Dear Editor
Introspection about education is needed
The MEC for Education and his department should desist from mauling educators and learners for not having achieved the desired Grade 12 results, but instead, should do some introspection individually and collectively, as to their roles in allowing this provincial education system to produce such ignominious Grade 12 results.
In 2008 the pass rate was 50.6% and in 2007 it was 56%, even then a dismal result. The Democratic Alliance welcomes the fact that there has been some improvement, from 50.6% to 51%, but there needs to be a dramatic turnaround if we are to create educational opportunities for our learners.
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Dear Editor
“One single idea can be much more powerful than one thousand actions.” The Democratic Alliance cannot agree more with this statement, which came from a judge when he adjudicated the book Jobs for the Jobless by Eustace Davie, published by the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa. With this the Free Market Foundation won the Templeton Freedom Award in the category Free Market Solutions to Poverty.
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Dear Editor
The incompetence of the Eastern Cape Health administration has reached criminal levels. Corpses share drawers and cleaning staff have to buy their own mops and rags.
The report by the Portfolio Committee for Health, who visited hospitals in the former Transkei area recently, reads like a horror.
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Dear Editor
In response to Jim Pattison’s letter, “DA asks questions of govt without effect” (the Herald, October 21), I must point out that questions are the most powerful tool opposition parties have to call government to account.
Official questions, which are formally tabled in the house, must be replied to within time frames in terms of the Standing Rules of Procedure of the Provincial Legislature. If this is not done, the particular MEC has to stand up in the House at the next meeting of the Legislature and explain to his MPLs why a question was not answered. This rule is rigidly enforced by the Speaker. Read more…
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