The recently tabled 2017/18 annual report for the Department of Education shows a department unravelling at the seams, unable to spend money on critical projects, while wasting funds through irregular expenditure and non-core business. This is the reason why schools are not being built and why learners are still forced to go to school in mud structures and use pit toilets! The Department underspent its allocated budget for the 2017/2018 …
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Looking back on National Transport Month and the initiatives launched by the province, leaves nothing to celebrate. People continue to lose their lives on our roads, children are still forced to walk to schools, Taxi violence is a common occurrence, and traffic law enforcement is basically non-existent. Anyone who has driven on our provincial roads in October will tell you that not enough is being done to address issues of …
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The failing ANC government has brought the Department of Health in the Eastern Cape to the brink of collapse, with the Auditor General (AG) raising serious concerns over its financial sustainability in its recently tabled Annual Report for the 2017/18 financial year. This stems from a staggering contingent liability of R24,326 billion, which constitutes mostly of medico-legal claims (24.193 billion). This contingent liability has risen by a jaw dropping R …
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There is an expression in Latin which says “video et taceo”. This means I see, but I don’t say. There are a number of issues that I am going to raise where I both see and say and where other people have seen but don’t say. The first issue relates to resolutions of this House. In the February ATC the portfolio committee of SCOPA recommended and I quote: “The office …
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Honourable Speaker, Honourable Premier, Members of the Executive, Honourable members, officials and dignitaries – I humbly greet you today. Honourable Speaker, the Democratic Alliance acknowledges the role the Department of Roads and Public Works is playing in creating job opportunities for the thousands of unemployed through its different employment programmes as well as contributing to skills attainment to certain categories of job seekers.
Honourable Speaker, Honourable Premier, Members of the Executive Council, Honourable members in the house and guests present here today, allow me to state unequivocally that it is indeed an honour and a privilege to present a report as a member of the Democratic Alliance, on the performance of the Provincial Department of Education for the period 2010/2011. Honourable Speaker, the core function of all those involved in education, is to …
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