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Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance (DA) will fight President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plan to hide from the public the report into alleged weapons smuggling to Russia. According to news reports, Ramaphosa intends to classify the report of the inquiry into whether arms were loaded onto the Russian Lady R in Simon’s Town last December. The Presidency …
Dear Editor The DA is calling on the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation to put measures in place to ensure that universities and TVET colleges have adequate norms and standards for safety and security. This will help in ensuring the safety of both students and staff and curb gender-based violence in universities and …
Dear Editor It seems the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, is trying to downplay the R1.5 million the SASSA Free State Regional Office spent on its international women’s day event on 28 March 2023. In answer [https://pmg.org.za/committee-question/22261/] to a written parliamentary question from the DA, the …
Dear Editor In a written reply to the DA, the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mondli Gungubele, revealed that to date, his department has spent R1.69 billion on the finalisation of the Broad Digital Migration (BDM). According to the Minister, the department incurred these runaway costs since 2015, more than R200 million every single …
Dear Editor “It is now beyond all doubt that the ANC, led by Cyril Ramaphosa, is reintroducing racial discrimination across all sectors of society on a scale not seen since 1994. They are doing so in order to divide and rule. The ANC knows it is on track to lose its majority in 2024 and …
Dear Editor South Africans have been watching with grave concern as revelations from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) hearings unfold, illustrating a disconcerting inclination to silence those brave enough to raise the alarm. The emergence of corruption and gangsterism within our state structures has escalated to such an extent that we now spurn …
Dear Editor Yesterday, the outgoing Health Ombud, Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, confirmed what the DA has always known to be true – the ANC government is incapable of fixing the public health system, a mess that was largely created by their mismanagement and corruption and will only be exacerbated by the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill …
Dear Editor Having lost all credibility on how to address the electricity crisis and secure new generation capacity for South Africa, the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, has now found a favorite past time – clamoring for fiscally unattainable nuclear power. Oblivious to the fact that his ANC government has practically collapsed …
Dear Editor The Democratic Alliance welcomes the recent development where horse owners will again be able to vaccinate their animals against African horse sickness (AHS). This after Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) indicated that they successfully produced and supplied vaccines to animal pharmaceutical companies for sale to farmers, just in time for the upcoming vaccination period …
Dear Editor The Portfolio Committee on Transport (PCoT), Tuesday May 30, 2023, was horrified to learn that the ANC-led government through the Department of Transport (DoT), is killing small micro-medium enterprises (SMME), by failing to pay almost 800 SMME’s on time. The Deputy Minister of Transport Lisa Mangcu MP, admitted that his department could not …
The following speech was delivered by the DA Federal Leader John Steenhuisen during the Presidency Budget Vote Debate in the National Assembly on Wednesday afternoon, 31 May 2023: Honourable Speaker, I’d like to take this House back to 2019. Looking back from the winter of 2023, it can be difficult to recall what things were …
Dear Editor Amidst the chaos and economic sabotage brought about by the ruinous ANC government, the Auditor General (A-G), Tsakani Maluleke, has once again reaffirmed the undeniable truth that the DA runs the best municipalities in the country. The positive performance report on DA governments from the 2021/2022 municipal audit outcomes, presented today in Parliament, …
Rugby club members who abuse or assault referees should expect to be banned from the game and action taken against their clubs, said Mr Mark Alexander, president of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Wednesday. Mr Alexander said he would be writing to all 15 member unions of SARU, urging their disciplinary committees to …
Dear Editor The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM) must embark on an audit of all electrical infrastructure to ensure that residents do not have to endure protracted blackouts such as those experienced earlier this week. The Democratic Alliance raised the issue in council today, calling on Mayor Princess Faku to take the necessary steps to capacitate …
Dear Editor Eskom has just declared its largest-ever loss – R21.2 billion. This is despite successive tariff increases – the last one being 9.61%, with another scheduled to kick in at 18,6%. The financial bleeding at Eskom is continuing despite the recent announcement of R254 billion Eskom debt assumption from Treasury, over the next 3 …
Dear Editor In clarifying the ambiguity that arose from its notice in the government gazette this week regarding Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges for the upcoming BRICS meeting in Cape Town and BRICS Summit to be held in Johannesburg in August, the Department of International Relations (DIRCO) has now made it clear that any individual who …
Dear Editor From a presentation by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to the parliamentary portfolio committee on basic education yesterday, it is clear that the DA-run Western Cape is the only province that understands the value and benefit of safe school infrastructure and have found innovative ways to invest in and provide good quality …
Dear Editor The Ugandan Parliament has recently passed a deadly bill that now makes engaging in acts of homosexuality a crime punishable by death. The Act not only criminalises conspiracy to engage in homosexuality but further stipulates a 20-year sentence for “promoting” homosexuality. Earlier this year, the Ugandan President and homophobe-in-chief, Yoweri Museveni, referred to …
The South African Sailing President Michael Robinson asks in his May 2023 newsletter: I want to revisit the old chestnut – “What does South African Sailing do for me?” South African Sailing represents every sailor in South Africa and has, over many years, been changing the face of sailing to make it more inclusive, more …
Dear Editor The fourth quarter 2022/23 crime statistics released by the South African Police Service (SAPS) revealed that little has been achieved in keeping learners safe from violent crime. Between January and March this year, 8 murders, 14 attempted murders and 84 rapes occurred on the premises of educational facilities, including daycare centres and universities. …
Dear Editor In the wake of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Financial Stability Review, the ANC government’s complacency towards global economic threats to our nation is laid bare. The SARB’s warning of the potential devastation, by means of secondary sanctions, to our financial system as a consequence of the ANC’s stance on the Ukrainian …
Dear Editor The DA will conduct oversight to the Mahikeng Provincial Hospital (MPH) once the incubators and cribs sourced from other health facilities in the North West have been installed. This after it was revealed that nine babies were placed in cardboard boxes over the weekend as the MPH has a shortage of cribs and …
Dear Editor The DA has launched a court application in the Gauteng High Court requesting a declaratory order to the effect that if President Vladimir Putin arrives in South Africa to attend the BRICS summit, and upon receipt of a request from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Putin, the South African government must …
Dear Editor Patients scheduled to undergo surgery at the Frere Hospital will have to suffer because the hospital has run out of theatre stock. Doctors have been instructed, in writing, that all scheduled surgeries at the hospital must be cancelled, except for patients suffering from critical life-threatening or limb-threatening conditions. This is simply shocking! This …