Hon Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes with great sadness the death of a former Member of Parliament and former Deputy President of the UCDP, Paul Harry Kgomotso Ditshetelo, on Tuesday, 11 October 2011;
2) further notes that after a prolonged sickness, Mr Ditshetelo finally succumbed to kidney failure at a private medical facility in Johannesburg;
3) recalls that Mr Ditshetelo was central to the UCDP, having been present at the formation of the party in 1972, when it was called the Tswana National Party, and also when the party changed its name to the Christian Democratic Party in 1991;
4) further remembers that when the party was reconstituted post the democratic elections in 1994 and changed its name to UCDP, Mr Ditshetelo was present and was elected as the first Secretary- General of the UCDP and led the party in that position until he had it registered with the Independent Electoral Commission to contest elections in the Republic;
5) recalls that Mr Ditshetelo was elected as the first Deputy President of the party in 1998, a position he held with distinction until January 2011, when he stood down at the party's congress.
Agreed to