The DA is delighted to announce that some 600 teachers appointed on a temporary basis in the province and who have not been paid since the beginning of this year, will receive their money on 15 May 2012.
This follows DA interaction between the DA and the acting Superintendent -General of the Department of Education, Mthunywa Ngonzo, on 3 May 2012 during a legislature portfolio committee meeting.
The fact that employment in the Eastern Cape has dropped by 46 000 according to statistics released by Statistics SA yesterday, (subs: Tuesday, 8 May 2012) when one compares the first quarter of January-March 2011 to the period January-March 2012, is devastating news for the Eastern Cape.
This is going to have a shattering impact on those families who are dependent on the 46 000 breadwinners who have lost their jobs. The knock-on effect will be felt throughout the Eastern Cape. A job is the best passport out of poverty and we need more jobs, not less, if we are to redress the injustices of the past.
Hundreds of teachers and now doctors are suffering the adverse consequence of non-payment by provincial departments. This callous approach causes immense stress on the individuals and their families as a result of the financial hardship that they are suffering. The Democratic Alliance is continually raising this matter in the various portfolio committees in the provincial legislature. We are determined to ensure that justice is done.
The double practice of non-payment to individuals and municipalities must cease.
Since taking over the running of the municipality’s clinics last year, the EC Department of Health (DoH) has had to pay the city in excess of R90 million, of which only R19 million has been transferred. The city has not budgeted for the running of these clinics, yet is still footing the bill. The Democratic Alliance has received information that of the DoH does not pay by this Friday (04 May 2012) all the clinics will effectively be shut down.
In October last year the Eastern Cape Department of Health (DoH) strong-armed all the municipalities in the Eastern Cape to hand over the functioning and operations of all the Health Clinics to the department in anticipation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) roll-out.
The Democratic Alliance (Edmund Van Vuuren, DA Eastern Cape Provincial Chairperson) met with an investigating officer on Tuesday (subs: 24 April 2012) to verify the party’s earlier statement made at the Humewood police station in Port Elizabeth regarding the case of attempted murder and reckless driving in which DA Parliamentary Leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, MP, was almost run over. This investigating officer is attached to the Whittlesea police station. The meeting was also to direct the officer to other eyewitnesses and to assist him in such a manner that this disgraceful incident may be speedily concluded.
Honjiswa Mrwebi, Sadtu branch chairperson of the Hewu area in Whittlesea, had through her wilful act intentionally tried to run over Lindiwe, myself and the school children that we were walking with in solidarity to highlight their plight of not being afforded scholar transport for their 24 km journey to and from their school in the Mbekweni Village. This lady increased her vehicle’s speed when approaching us from behind. We had to hurriedly make way in order not to be hit by the vehicle on Friday 13 April 2012. She readily admitted her intentions in a front page article of the Saturday Dispatch on 14 April 2012.
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