Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Western Cape provincial cabinet is an all-male outfit again after the Premier of the Western Cape and Leader of the Democratic Alliance, Premier Helen Zille, made cosmetic changes to her cabinet to fill the vacancy left by the DA's mayor elect and former Member of the Executive Council Patricia de Lille;
2) further notes that Premier Helen Zille's cabinet reshuffle takes place after much hype about the DA's commitment to the principles of gender equality and nonracialism and misguided innuendos about the DA's intention to effect a drastic cabinet reshuffle to make space for more women and black people; and
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms the utter disregard for women, particularly coloured and black women, by the Democratic Alliance and its leader Premier Helen Zille who, as a woman, has shown the most repulsive form of female chauvinism and marginalisation of the progress that our country has made in dismantling the legacy of gender discrimination and disregard for women as capable and able public leaders.