Below is an extract of a speech delivered by DA Eastern Cape Provincial Leader, Athol Trollip, in Amalinda Forest in East London on Sunday, 10 July as part of his provincial campaign road show. Please click here and here to view pictures. The people of Buffalo City can live in a society where freedom, fairness and opportunity prevail if they have a responsive local government. What the people of Amalinda Forest …
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Mbhashe cash misuse
May 5th, 2016
THE beleaguered Mbhashe Municipality has been plagued by bad reports of mismanagement of public funds and poor service delivery. The latest incident is the municipality’s misuse of R140 000 of taxpayers’ money intended for a staff awards ceremony which did not take place (“R140 000 spent on cancelled awards event” DD April 29). Earlier this year, Good Governance Africa compiled and released a report indicating the worst and best run …
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Proper coordination needed for jobs for social work graduates
April 15th, 2016
Proper coordination is needed to ensure that social work students have jobs once they have graduated from the national Department of Social Development’s bursary programme. In Reply to question 56, IQP 7 of 2016 to a legislature question I asked Social Development MEC Nancy Sihlwayi, no social work graduates were employed by her department in 2015, despite 290 students completing their studies. There has never been a more important time for social …
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Tomorrow, 8 April 2016, DA Mayoral Candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip will host Federal Leader, Mmusi Maimane MP and Former DA Leader, Helen Zille for a registration drive across the Bay. The delegation will travel to KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, Despatch, Veeplaas and Zwide before concluding at the Chatty Hall for a mass “Operation Pakisha” [Pakisha – Pack and go!] public meeting in PE’s Northern Areas, where hundreds of supporters and …
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Racial fascism sweeping SA
March 1st, 2016
THE burning of a photographic collage of struggle hero and former Progressive Federal Party public representative Molly Blackburn at UCT (The Herald, February 22) is symptomatic of a new racial fascism that is sweeping through our society. In this new order, people view life through a polarising, racial prism where there are no grey areas. It is either a simplistic black or white. As a former colleague of the late …
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