Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay and discontent revelations that the Western Cape Premier Helen Zille uses taxpayers' monies to pay Heart 104.9 FM for publicity;
2) further notes that -
i) the station's managing director Gavin Meiring has admitted that Premier Helen Zille has used the slot as Mayor of the City of Cape Town before and took a decision to continue with it in April this year;
ii) early this month Premier Helen Zille and her government sought cheap publicity by slamming the SABC's alleged attempts to offer the Western Cape government news coverage on its Interface programme;
iii) the DA spokesperson for communication Niekie van den Berg publicly stated that "paying for any content during news or current affairs programming violates basic tenets of ethical journalism"; and
iv) the Heart 104.9 contract seems to have attracted other benefits for Premier Helen Zille, who received substantial coverage and even appeared with several DJs of the same station on events that were disguised as "support for the World Cup and Bafana Bafana"; and 3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms the double standard and hypocrisy of Premier Helen Zille and the DA for their unscrupulous attempt to mislead the people of South Africa and the Western Cape that the DA government in the Western Cape was not paying for media coverage a few months after they committed over R2 million in taxpayers' funds to pay for news coverage.
Hon Chairperson, I wish to give notice that at the next sitting of this Council I will move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Free State has experienced huge losses due to veld fires over the past few weeks and, according to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, more than 236 000 hectares of grazing have been lost due to veld fires so far this year, of which 151 000 hectares have been in September alone;
2) further notes that livestock as well as houses and farming equipment have been lost due to the various fires in the province;
3) acknowledges that the agricultural sector cannot afford these losses during an economic recession; 4) recognises that the agricultural sector in the province shed 10 000 jobs last year, which has had a devastating impact on struggling municipalities as people moved to towns and cities in search of new livelihoods; and
(5) realises that the provincial government has no choice but to declare the worst hit areas in the province disaster areas and urges them to urgently assist the agricultural sector to enable them to survive until pastures have recovered and to maintain as many jobs as possible and to speed up the bureaucratic process to achieve this.
Chairperson, I wish to give notice that at the next sitting of this Council I shall move on behalf of Cope:
That the Council debates whether there is any justification for the Department of Public Works to continue in existence seeing that this function is being exercised elsewhere, as in the instance of Minister Siphiwe Nyanda's department renting a building from the state-owned weapons manufacturer Denel at R4,3 million to provide accommodation for 13 Institute for Software and Satellite Applications employees.
Chairperson, I wish to give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I will move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Weekend Post of 11 September 2010 reported on the front page how one moves up in the ANC ranks;
2) further notes that a particular official at the Nelson Mandela Metro Municipality was involved in the controversy of obtaining 300 golf shirts at R560 each and 300 carry bags at R216 each to a total value of R230 000 for a housing conference in 2004, after which the official was suspended on allegations of corruption, nepotism and bribery and eventually left of his own accord with a golden handshake of an estimated R1 million;
3) also notes that this same official was thereafter appointed as the municipal manager of Sundays River Municipality in 2008, from which he was fired in July 2009 for gross mismanagement and misconduct, but was saved by the ANC regional executive who reinstated him;
4) acknowledges that the Sundays River ratepayers obtained a court order to have him dismissed with charges for his own cost; and
5) notes that this same official is now appointed in the Eastern cape provincial government in a top position in the department of local government to manage Operation Clean Audit 2014 for local government.
This wolf in sheep's clothing has certainly qualified to move up in the ranks of the ANC.
Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) debates the very serious allegations made by Gen Hlela that Gen Cele had lied to Parliament regarding Gen Cele's direct and personal involvement in two rental deals;
2) discusses the forced resignation of generals Hamilton Hlela, Matthews Sivundla and Stefanus Terblanche, who were involved in the SAPS supply chain management (SCM); and
(3) therefore calls on the President to appoint a judicial commission of inquiry to reveal the truth.
Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move on behalf of Cope:
That the Council debates the question raised by the Minister of Finance to the Minister of Communications regarding the failure of the SABC to table a turnaround strategy consistent with the stringent conditions imposed by government, in order to access the second tranche of the R1,47 billion loan secured through a loan guarantee issued by Treasury.
Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the House I shall move on behalf of the DA:
That the Council -
1) notes with concern the lack of a rebuttal by the ANC of the ANCYL's rhetoric that the mining industry in South Africa should be nationalised;
2) further notes the negative impact that such irresponsible pronouncements on the part of the ANC Youth League and the lack of leadership to refute these pronouncements have on investor confidence; and
(3) therefore condemns both the irresponsible rhetoric on the part of the ANC Youth League and its leader Mr Malema, as well as the lack of a clear direction from the President of South Africa that nationalisation of mining would be bad for the South African economy.
Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the House I shall move on behalf of Cope:
That the Council debates whether government has been acting decisively and prosecuting to the full extent of the law all those who continue to illegally dump medical waste, seeing that this criminal practice is continuing without any abatement.