Hon Speaker, Madam Premier, Members of the Executive Committee, Members of the Legislature, departmental officials and guests – good afternoon. It is shameful that this report has to be debated and approved by this legislature 17 months after the committee oversight visit took place.

The members of the Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape Legislature, Bobby Stevenson, Edmund van Vuuren, Dacre Haddon and John Cupido will be participating in the provincial Mandela Day celebration that will be held at Sephepheto Junior School near Fiva Village near Matatiele today. (Subs: Monday 18 July). MPLs will be planting trees and sowing [...]

A motion tabled in the Eastern Cape Legislature today regarding the demolition of 300 shacks in the Bhungeni informal settlement outside Butterworth was unanimously accepted by the whole House for later debate. My motion calls for: