Mr W D Spies

Committee appearances

• Labour Committee Report on Workplace Discrimination 6 May 2008

  Mr W Spies (FF) urged the Committee not to forget that while it was the engine-room of the legislative process, it would not be possible to legislate for attitudes.

• Minnie’s Proposal to Amend Transnet Pension Fund Act: briefing & discussion 27 Feb 2008

  Mr W Spies (FF) said that the Public Enterprises Portfolio Committee had discussed the amending legislation that came into effect last year. At that stage he had made a proposal to the Committee, substantially similar to Mr Minnie’s proposal, so he fully agreed with that principle. There was a flaw ...

• Electricity Regulation Amendment Bill: briefing 20 Sep 2006

  Mr W D Spies (FFP) stated that reticulation of energy is an exclusive function of municipalities. He stated that the Bill appeared to limit this exclusive function and thus deteriorated this specific competency.

• Nuclear Waste Management Policy: Department briefing 13 Sep 2006

  Mr W D Spies (FFP) requested an explanation of the statement that the cost of recycling and Deep Geological storage were equivalent.

• Youth Unemployment: Department response to public submissions 31 Jul 2006

  Mr W Spies (FF) commented that the summary of the submissions showed that many valuable points had been proposed across the board. He felt that the Department faced the challenge of trying to “reconcile the irreconcilable”. He hoped that when the Department reviewed the submissions and looked for answers they ...

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Plenary appearances

• Appropriation Bill 1 Jul 2009

  Voorsitter, "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" [God sen Afrika.] is seker die bekendste isiXhosa woorde. Dit is 'n roepstem van die mense van Suid-Afrika dat God die kontinent sal sen. My skoonmoeder het jare lank sendingwerk in die Oos-Kaap gedoen en sy het my vertel dat hierdie lied van Enoch Sontonga, wat ...

• Appropriation Bill 1 Jul 2009

  In Suid-Afrika is sport nie net speletjies nie. Van die hewigste openbare debatte oor die toekoms van Suid-Afrika is, ironies genoeg, juis oor sport en sportgebeure gevoer. Ek dink dit is omdat daar soveel simboliek in sport opgesluit l. As die Springbokke teen Engeland of die Britse Leeus speel, word ...

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