CELEBRATE MANDELA
July 17th, 2012As we prepare to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday tomorrow, 18 July, South Africans need to remember that our former president has done more for social cohesion, nation building and promoting national identity than anybody before him and most probably anybody after him. What Madiba started — and continued doing even in those difficult years while he was incarcerated by the apartheid regime — is now being built on by …
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KILLING OF SAPS MEMBERS CANNOT BE TOLERATED
July 11th, 2012It is a tragedy that a number of members of the SAPS have been killed in our province in the line of duty in the last few months. It would be a double tragedy if members of the community who have any information of people involved in the killing of these SAPS members remain silent. The SAPS is our frontline against the criminal element who is brutalising our society. They …
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DA WELCOMES SAPS MOBILE UNIT FOR THOLENI VILLAGE
June 21st, 2012The Democratic Alliance welcomes the news that a mobile police unit has been set up in Tholeni-village. (“Relief for terrorised villagers”, Daily Dispatch, 21 June). This is an issue which I have been driving through letters and phone calls to the MEC for Local Government, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, a number of media statements to the Daily Dispatch and other print media, and talks on the community radio station in that area.
EXORBITANT COMMISSIONS ERODE PROVINCIAL ROADS BUDGET
June 11th, 2012EVERYTHING is not what it seems when one takes a closer look at the announcement (made in March last year) that the Eastern Cape’s department of roads and public works (DRPW) had launched a three-year, R1.5-billion roads contractor development programme with the Coega Development Agency (CDA). At first it seemed that contractors and other related service providers would be trained in the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges in …
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CONTRACT MEANS LESS MONEY FOR ROADS
May 31st, 2012EVERYTHING is not what it seems when one takes a closer look at the announcement in March last year that the Eastern Cape department of roads and public works (DRPW) had launched a three-year, R1.5-billion roads contractor development programme with the Coega Development Agency (CDA). At first it seemed contractors and other related service providers would be trained in construction, and maintenance of roads and bridges in the province by …
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