Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with serious discontent that with only 9 days left before the end of the financial year, the DA led City of Cape Town indicated that it had spent only 50% of its capital budget for the financial year and all of a sudden it claims that it managed to miraculously increase its capital spending to 80% in 9 days; 2) further notes statements by the African National Congress and other opposition parties in the City of Cape Town that the DA misled the public about the areas in which they had underspent when in fact the City of Cape Town only spent 38.9% of the Transport, Roads and Major Projects budget and only 58% of the Housing budget when the many roads across the city show signs of poor maintenance and are riddled with potholes that have cost motorists millions of rand;
3) acknowledges that the DA's claims to have spent almost 40% of its capital budget in 9 days is nothing less than a blatant reflection of fiscal dumping when the City of Cape Town is facing a management crisis and many of its operations are crippled with the exodus and purging of officials; and
4) calls on the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs to investigate the City of Cape Town's financial report and to charge any person responsible for the gross manipulation of public funds, misleading the public and hiding the City of Cape Town's incompetence.
Agb Voorsitter, ek gee hiermee kennis namens die DA dat ek op die volgende sittingsdag van Raad sal voorstel:
Dat die Raad kennis neem dat - 1) fotos in die Rapport van 19 Junie 2011 toon dat wapens van Suid- Afrikaanse vervaardiging deur die Libiese weermag onder Muammar Gaddafi op sy eie mense gebruik word, veral teen vroue en kinders;
2) Minister Lindiwe Sisulu voorheen ontken het dat Suid-Afrikaanse wapens aan Gaddafi verkoop is, terwyl Minister Jeff Radebe, voorsitter van die National Conventional Arms Control Committee, NCACC, later erken het dat konvensionele wapens wat menseverlies kan veroorsaak, aan Libi verkoop is;
3) die verskoning dat hierdie wapens voor die uitbreek van die opstand aan Libi verkoop is, 'n vlou verskoning is en dat die verkoop van wapens aan diktators indruis teen die morele waardes van demokrasie; en
4) die ANC regering skuldig is aan swak oordeel en medepligtig is aan die onderhoud van diktatoriale regerings wat mense onderdruk en uitmoor. (Translation of Afrikaans draft resolution follows.)
[Mr M J R DE VILLIERS: Chairperson, I hereby give notice on behalf of the DA that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) takes note of the photos in the Rapport of 19 June 2011 which show that arms of South African manufacture are being used on its own people by the Libyan defence force under Muammar Gaddafi, in particular against women and children;
2) further notes that Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has previously denied that South African arms had been sold to Gaddafi, while Minister Jeff Radebe, Chairperson of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee, NCACC, later on admitted that conventional arms which could result in the loss of human life had been sold to Libya;
3) acknowledges that the excuse that these arms had been sold before the outbreak of the revolution in Libya is a weak one that goes against the moral democratic value of not selling arms to dictators; and
4) takes note that the ANC government is guilty of poor judgment and is party to the maintenance of dictatorial governments that suppress and butcher people.]
Chairperson, I hereby give notice on behalf of Cope that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes the continued failure of the Department of Education to give the children of our country the quality of education that would improve their future as well as that of the nation;
2) further notes the inability of the government to address minimum infrastructure needs seeing that the recently published school infrastructure report found 3 500 public schools in the country to be without electricity and 2 402 without a regular water supply;
3) debates the reasons for KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the Free State continuing to be the worst affected areas in the above regard; and
4) debates the extent to which infrastructure limitations affected school attendance and the very operation of the school.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice on behalf of Cope that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes the extent to which the gender war brewing within the police force is undermining the work of the police and affecting the morale of the women in uniform;
2) further notes the inability of police management to deal adequately with the alleged discrimination against women because of the perception that they are not as physically strong as their male counterparts;
3) debates the failure within the establishment to foster a nonracist and a nonsexist environment in conforming to our Constitution; and
4) further debates the failure of the Minister of Police to provide leadership and encourages the top brass to engender within the force a love of the Constitution of South Africa.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay the derogatory remarks made by the parliamentary leader of the Democratic Alliance, the hon Mr Athol Trollip, MP, to the Chairman of the National Ratepayers' Association of SA, Mr Jaap Kelder, discourteously cursing at him and referring to him as the reincarnation of the AWB, KP, FF+ and Nazis;
2) further notes that hon Trollip, who erroneously sent the email to Mr Kelder instead of his colleague, DA MP Annette Steyn, has since been taken to the Human Rights Commission to face charges of hate speech;
3) acknowledges that the remarks made by the hon Trollip are further proof of the derogatory language used by many DA leaders about their own members who have since spoken openly about racism in the DA and the continued vilification they suffer from DA leaders; and
4) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms the remarks made by the hon Trollip for his derogatory views which were not only directed at Mr Kelder but at Afrikaners in general.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that 17 June 2011 marked the 19th anniversary of the Boipatong massacre that took place in 1992; 2) further notes that on the night of 17 June 1992 heavily armed Inkatha Freedom Party members secretly raided the Vaal township of Boipatong and brutally killed 46 people in a well-orchestrated operation called Operation Marion;
3) further notes that the Boipatong massacre caused the ANC to walk out of Codesa, and almost derailed the negotiations to end apartheid and freedom for our people and that the massacre drew the attention of the United Nations Security Council, which passed Resolution 765 on July 16 1992, urging a full investigation into the incident; and
4) takes this opportunity to salute all those who have lost their lives in this massacre and commits ourselves to ensuring that their lives were not lost in vain by working towards a just and better life for all.
Hon Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I will move on behalf of Cope, the real one:
That the Council -
1) notes the shocking failure of government to compel all heads of department to comply strictly with the provisions of the PFMA as is evident once again with Gauteng transport head Benedicta Monama allegedly signing a R3-billion contract with West Point Trading Enterprises 123, to operate and manage driving licence centres, in spite of her being warned by the provincial treasury that the deal was illegal; and
2) acknowledges the failure of the MEC of transport to know what was going on in her department which allowed for the deal to go ahead without authorisation.
Hon Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I will move on behalf of the DA:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Free State municipalities now owe Eskom more than R305 million and that more than R175 million is in arrears;
2) also notes that Mangaung Metro's debt amounts to R53 million and will shortly reach R119 million;
3) further notes that Matjhabeng Municipality, Welkom, owes R33,8 million, Ngwathe Municipality owes R29,1 million and Metsimaholo Municipality owes R23,6 million, to name just a few; and
4) acknowledges that it is about time that municipalities in the Free State province pay the monies collected to Eskom and not use these funds to pay other debts or to balance the books before Eskom is forced to take other drastic measures.
Hon Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I will move on behalf of Cope, which is recognised by the ANC and led by our president, Mr Lekota:
That the Council -
1) notes the failure of the government to prosecute Zondwa Mandela and Khulubuse Zuma, directors of Aurora Empowerment Systems mining company, on charges that were formulated against them 13 months ago;
2) further notes the fact that the two directors could be hauled before a court this year on further charges of water pollution, according to the Department of Water Affairs; and
3) acknowledges that government must ensure that justice is served and that the laws of this country are not bent for the political elite.
Chairperson, if I had been a member of Cope I would have expelled hon Feldman for referring to the old and only Congress of the People, but let me leave it at that.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the first lady of the United States of America, Mrs Michelle Obama, is currently visiting South Africa in her first major solo overseas trip as US first lady;
2) further notes that Mrs Obama, who is accompanied by her daughters Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson, but not by her husband, US president Barack Obama, has met former President Mandela and his wife Mrs Graca Machel, First Lady Mrs Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma, gave a keynote address at a conference of the Young African Women Leaders Forum and visited various communities and monumental areas across Gauteng, including a visit to the Apartheid Museum; and
3) takes this opportunity to welcome Mrs Michelle Obama to the beautiful shores of our land and wishes her a remarkable experience in the time she is part of the fragrances of the African nature, the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever- changing seasons that define the face of our beautiful African land!