Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I will move on behalf of the IFP:
That the Council -
1) notes with shock and horror that a 15-year-old pupil from Mpumalanga died after being brutally raped and stabbed 66 times;
2) further notes that this gruesome murder has taken place just as we are about to launch the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children;
3) realises that our current efforts at stopping violence against women and children are not good enough as there are still too many incidents of violence against them;
4) acknowledges that we need to intensify our efforts in combating crimes against women and children; and
5) calls upon the relevant authorities to do everything in their power to apprehend the monster who committed this shocking crime as he does not belong in society.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day I shall move the following motion:
That the Council -
1) notes that in light of -
a) the relaunch of the Democratic Alliance at Constitution Hill on 15 November, on which occasion the party unveiled a new logo symbolising its commitment to promoting diversity in the context of one nation with one future; and
b) the DA's undertaking to strive to become a party of government and to realise its vision of an open opportunity society for all; and
2) congratulates the DA and welcomes its relaunch as a positive contribution to the consolidation of multiparty democracy in South Africa and to the entrenchment of core constitutional values such as dignity, equality, nonracialism and nonsexism.
Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that on 4 October 2008 in Greater Taung Municipality, Pudumong Township in North West, Othusitse Leburu, an educator of 45 years at Joseph Saku Middle School decided to destroy himself and everything he had accumulated for his family by pouring petrol over himself and his house and setting everything alight;
2) also notes that on the morning of the same day friends and neighbours were with him at the unveiling of a tombstone at Dryharts, where he showed no symptoms of anger or of committing suicide;
3) acknowledges that the inside and outside of the house was completely burnt and that he burnt himself and the family home to ashes; and
4) calls on the government to work more closely with educators so as to observe and experience the overloading of work on educators and to try and get to the root of the problem which might help to stop other educators from killing themselves.
Voorsitter, ek gee hiermee kennis:
Dat die Raad -
1) kennis neem -
a) van die vernietigende vloede wat dele van die Wes-Kaap verlam en groot skade en selfs lewensverlies veroorsaak het, toe 'n matriek meisie op pad na haar eksamen verdrink het;
b) dat die Hexriviervallei, Montagu, Greyton en Genadendal van die gebiede is wat die ergste geraak is;
c) dat daar reg oor die provinsie paaie, bre, huise, wingerde en selfs vee in die slag gely het; en
d) dat die impak van hierdie skade groot invloed op hierdie seisoenale gebiede gaan h; en 2) die Provinsiale Minister versoek om so spoedig moontlik hierdie vloedgeteisterde gebiede as rampgebiede te verklaar sodat ramphulp spoediglik verleen kan word om gebiede te kan herstel en om betrokkenes kans te gun om weer met hul lewens voort te kan gaan. (Translation of Afrikaans notice of motion follows.)
[Ms H LAMOELA: Chairperson, I hereby give notice:
That the Council -
1) notes -
a) the devastating floods that have paralysed parts of the Western Cape and have caused extensive damage and even loss of life, when a matric schoolgirl drowned on the way to write her examination;
b) that the Hex River Valley, Montague, Greyton and Genadendal are some of the areas that have been worst affected;
c) that throughout the province roads, bridges, homes, vineyards and even livestock have been destroyed; and
d) that the impact of this damage will severely affect these seasonal areas; and
2) requests the provincial minister as soon as possible to declare these flood-ravaged areas as disaster areas, so that disaster relief can be rendered without delay in order to enable these areas to recover and afford the people involved the opportunity to continue with their lives.]