Hon Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
1) notes with utter dismay that the city of Cape Town under the leadership of the Democratic Alliance has processed over R350 million worth of deviations in a period of six months, allowing the DA-led city to extend the contracts of certain consultants without following tender processes;
2) further notes that despite appointing two directors to head the city's Integrated Rapid Transit, IRT, Unit, the city continues to use consultants and has been shifting the goal posts in opening crucial road links such as the West Coast bus lane and leaving the two directors with almost nothing to do in six months;
3) acknowledges that this is a clear indication of the DA's lack of knowledge on governance issues and its desperate attempt to use the back door to channel public funds to certain business individuals with links with the DA; and
4) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such a practice, which amounts to nothing but a systematic abuse of public funds to buy votes.
THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Hon Sinclair, you are not allowed to speak on your cellphone in the Chamber. [Interjections.] I am now calling your name, and you cannot hear me.
Dis 'n skande! [That is a disgrace!]
I am sorry, hon Chairperson. I give notice on behalf of Cope ... [Interjections.] ... - the real one - that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
1) notes the severe water shortages that have continued for the last seven months in Springbok in the Northern Cape and which have the potential to become life threatening;
2) further notes the poor maintenance, gross mismanagement and planning that is evident in the Nama Khoi Municipality, contributing to this water distribution crisis; and
3) calls on the Department of Co-operative Governance to address this issue in a timely and decisive manner to ensure that all people receive the necessary basic services that they are entitled to.
Voorsitter, by die volgende sitting van die Raad sal ek namens die DA voorstel:
Dat die Raad kennis neem -
1) dat die gehalteversekeringsraad, Umalusi, Woensdag die eerste keer sedert 1918 bekend gemaak het watter vakke se punte in die 2010 matriekuitslae aangepas is, met hoeveel en waarom. Dit kom nadat die verbetering van sewe persentasiepunte in die slaagsyfer vrae laat ontstaan het;
2) dat Umalusi se grootste opwaartse aanpassing in wiskunde en rekeningkunde was, veral om die 30% druipmerk te verbeter;
3) dat op grond van die matrikulante se finale punteberekening, die algemene slaagsyfer eintlik nader aan 62%, pleks van die uiteindelike 67,8%, sou gewees het; en
4) dat die finale matriekuitslae wat deur die Departement van Onderwys dus vrygestel is, nie die ware weergawe is van die standaard wat behaal is nie. (Translation of Afrikaans draft resolution follows.)
[Mr W F FABER: Hon Chairperson, I give notice that I shall move at the next sitting of the Council:
That the Council -
1) notes that on Wednesday the quality assurance board Umalusi revealed for the first time since 1918 in which subjects by the matric results for 2010 marks had been adjusted, how much and why - following on questions that arose after an improvement of seven percentage points in the pass rate;
2) further notes that the biggest upward adjustment by Umalusi had been in mathematics and in accounting, chiefly in order to improve on the 30% failure rate; and 3) acknowledges that, based on the final calculation of the matric marks, the average pass rate would have been closer to 62% instead of the eventual 67,8%, and that these final results as released by the Department of Basic Education therefore do not accurately convey the standard attained.]
Can I check? I am trying to get interpretation here and I am not getting it. Are you getting interpretation, hon members? Are you getting it? [Interjections.]
Bakhona yini abanitolikelayo? Ngizokhuluma isintu ke manje. [Uhleko.] Nizwa konke yini? Hhayi kulungile ngizoqhubeka. [Are there people who are interpreting for you? I will now speak in the vernacular. [Laughter.] Do you understand everything? If it is all right, I will go on then.]
Put this channel right.
Chairperson, good afternoon. I give notice on behalf of Cope that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes the high likelihood of an outbreak of violence prior to the local government elections and during the elections in provinces such as the Eastern Cape and Gauteng because of the tension between ANC members and communities;
2) further notes strategies to speed up service delivery in the worst- affected areas to avert service delivery protests that have the potential to engulf the whole country in a crisis and cripple the elections; and
3) calls on the ruling party to defuse the stand-offs with dissatisfied community members as soon as possible and to stabilise the situation in all affected areas.
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 vandalism of the statue of Umkhonto we Sizwe member Nokuthula Simelane at the Bethal Cultural Precinct in Mpumalanga on Monday, 24 January 2011;
2) further notes that -
a) Nokuthula Simelane was a compatriot and member of the ANC who mysteriously disappeared in 1983 while preparing to attend a graduation ceremony at the University of Swaziland;
b) her family searched for her in Swaziland and other neighbouring countries and later discovered that she was killed by the apartheid security forces when she entered South Africa from Swaziland and is believed to have been tortured by the Vlakplaas operatives; and
c) her remains have not been found to date and the Mpumalanga provincial government unveiled the statue in 2009 to honour the selfless sacrifice and heroism of Simelane and that the Simelane family has since come to regard her statue as the grave of this heroine of our people;
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms this blatant act of utter disregard and disrespect for the sentimental value of the statue to the Simelane family, the people of Bethal and the ANC;
4) acknowledges that this is nothing but a camouflaged act of racism, which must be isolated and defeated in our society; and
5) congratulates the police for their swift action that led to the arrest of a Mr Corn van Tonder, who is currently out on R5 000 bail.
Chairperson, I give notice on behalf of Cope that at the next sitting of the NCOP, I will move:
That the Council -
1) notes the flagrant lack of legal compliance displayed by Gen Bheki Cele in negotiating to lease the Sanlam Middestad Building;
2) further notes the failure of Public Works Minister Gwen Mahlangu- Nkabinde to keep her solemn promise to hold the lease in abeyance until the investigation had been completed;
3) acknowledges the further wanton failure of the Minister to heed the advice of two legal experts not to approve the lease as it would most likely be set aside in a judicial review; and
4) further acknowledges the moral bankruptcy of the regnant ANC administration not to comply with the law and in fact to actively disregard it as though the law was for everyone else but not for the ANC elite.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council, I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the African National Congress, Umbutho wabantu [the people's party], launched its election manifesto for the upcoming local government elections at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Rustenburg on Sunday, 27 February 2011;
2) further notes that in a demonstration of confidence in the ANC and a firm declaration that the ANC remains the only viable vehicle in the struggle to fundamentally transform South African society, the people of the North West came out in their numbers and across the length and breadth of the province to fill the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace to capacity, chanting freedom songs reminiscent of their yearning for yet another ANC victory, as our nation faces the third national local government elections; and
3) takes this opportunity to thank the people of Mafikeng and the millions who watched the ANC across South Africa and calls on them to once more vote for the ANC and its candidates in the upcoming local government elections to continue on our national path to develop and dismantle the long years of apartheid in our society.
Hon Chairperson, on behalf of the DA I hereby wish to give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that more than 60 farm murders took place from the beginning of December 2010 to the middle of January 2011 in South Africa;
2) further notes that these murders have been carried out on farms and smaller agricultural farm units;
3) acknowledges that urgent attention and action is required to investigate and to stop this ongoing crime and murder before our food security is threatened; and
4) recognises that no country can operate normally with some 50 people being murdered every day and someone being raped every few seconds.
Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes the recent outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease in northern KwaZulu-Natal;
2) further notes the impact that this will have on the province's meat industry and free export status of the farmers, as well as the rise in already high food price inflation; and
3) calls on the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to immediately implement vaccination protocols and to control the movement of these infected animals.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that in another show of desperation, the Democratic Alliance- led City of Cape Town arrested and detained 38 job seekers looking for work outside Brackenfell under the veiled disguise of contravening the City of Cape Town's by-laws and being a nuisance for seeking casual work on the side of the road;
2) further notes that the detainees were fined R100 each and left to walk back to the same area after an intervention by the area Councillor of the ANC, councillor Werner Schwella; 3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms such blatant manipulation of the police to wage a systemic attack on the poor job seekers when President Jacob Zuma has just announced the launch of a fund to support job seekers like the men on the side of the road to be able to earn some income to support their families; and
4) takes this opportunity to call on all organisations and people supporting job seekers on the side of the road to condemn this despicable action of the DA.
Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Congress of the People faction led by one of its presidents, Mbhazima Shilowa, launched its own local government manifesto in a gloomy and sombre moment indicative of the fast death of the embattled party, attended by a handful of people who mistook it for a funeral;
2) further notes that the faction leader Mbhazima Shilowa could not take part in the activities of his faction or address it because of a ban obtained by Mosiuoa Lekota preventing him from operating the embattled party's bank accounts, saying he is a Cope president, acting as Cope MP, and blocking the other faction from their headquarters; and
3) takes this opportunity to call on the Cope members who are disillusioned and disheartened by the selfishness of their leaders to come back to the ANC where they belong and join this life-long movement to implement an agenda to be part of a national agenda to build a better South Africa.