Hon Deputy 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 Premier has lost yet another appeal against the Western Cape High Court ruling that held a Tygerberg Hospital surgeon liable for damages suffered by a woman left in a vegetative state after complications during childbirth;
2) further notes that Johanna Cecilia Erasmus fell pregnant after the surgeon failed to properly sterilise her and now suffers from dementia, poor memory and cognitive disability, blindness, and is unable to walk and talk; and
3) takes this opportunity to condemn in the harshest possible terms the continued waste of tax payers' monies by the Premier in several appeals that were clearly indicative of the gross negligence and utter violation of a Constitution that she always professes to uphold and protect when it suits her and her party.