MBDA board, CEO must go to get Agency working again
Nearly a year after Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana stepped in to counter an ostensible attempt at capturing the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA), the status quo remains at the embattled […]
Failing Mayors and Municipal Managers must appear before COGTA Committee
The 2022-23 consolidated general report on local government audit outcomes shows that while the Eastern Cape’s audit outcomes have improved slightly, a culture of unaccountability is undermining these improvements. In […]
Urgent intervention needed as NMB crisis deepens
The current inept coalition government of Nelson Mandela Bay, with Mayor Gary van Niekerk at the helm, has crippled the Metro and is driving it toward bankruptcy. Basic services have […]
Six weeks after disastrous Kariega floods and still no relief for victims
Nearly six weeks after the floods that devastated the area of Kariega (Uitenhage) on 1 June 2024, the government has still not provided any financial assistance to flood victims. Although […]
DA MPLs ready to fight for the people of the Eastern Cape
Today, 14 June 2024, eleven Democratic Alliance members were sworn in as members of the seventh sitting of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, up from ten seats held in the […]
Runaway salaries of EC SOEs
At a time when interest rate hikes and rising food and fuel prices are making it increasingly difficult for people to make ends meet, executives of the ten Eastern Cape […]
Magwa Tea Plantation: Why we should cut our losses and go
The Democratic Alliance is calling on the provincial government to cut its losses in the Magwa Tea Plantation, accept that the project has failed and move on. Instead of reviewing […]
DA will never support a budget that does not put people first
The Democratic Alliance today rejected the provincial budget tabled in the Provincial Legislature, as it fails to put the needs of the people of this province first. Sadly, this has […]
Making the poor poorer – how a third of the poorest households in the Eastern Cape disappeared
Eastern Cape municipalities have slashed 360 000 indigent households from their books, not because the poor have become less poor, but because municipalities failed to provide assistance during the greatest […]
DA calls for moratorium to be placed on purchase of official cars for politicians
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling for a moratorium to be placed on the purchase of all new official vehicles for municipal political office bearers in the province. In response […]
Issued by Retief Odendaal MPL