Speaker, when I was a child I really enjoyed fairytales. I can still remember the fictional stories about Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Snow White. It seems the Honourable […]
The Eastern Cape Provincial Government has blatantly ignored direct instructions from the National Treasury, requiring that the province ensure local municipalities ring-fence funds collected for water and electricity. The ring-fencing […]
Premier Oscar Mabuyane is the Mad Hatter at the Magwa tea party, dishing out hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ rands to produce some of the most expensive tea in the […]
Honourable Speaker, Honourable Premier, Leaders of Political Parties, Members of the House Stealing from South African governmental departments and municipalities has become the easiest way of making a dishonest buck, […]
Speaker, in November last year, we had a debate in the House on Climate Change. I revealed then that as far back as 2011, the Eastern Cape Provincial Government had […]
The Eastern Cape has experienced severe backlash due to excessive allegations of corruption surrounding its Covid-19 PPE procurement. When the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) briefed Parliament’s Scopa on 20 October […]
Nelson Mandela Bay is currently in the grip of a devastating drought, that has seen the combined dam levels supplying the Metro drop below 20%. Despite this, the previous ANC-led […]
Nearly 10 months after the first allegations of fraud, corruption and collusion in the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, not a single company […]
The latest bout of loadshedding is another devastating blow to Eastern Cape farmers, who are dependent on Eskom electricity supply to pump water for their irrigation needs. Some Eastern Cape […]
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has demanded that both Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform (DRDAR) and Co-operative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) appear before SCOPA to account […]
Issued by Retief Odendaal MPL