Chair, I hereby give notice that, at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) acknowledges the comments made by political analyst Justice Malala who said on national television this week, and I quote:
"Politicians can talk until the cows come home but if they do not create an environment for jobs then they have failed.
It was therefore with approval that we heard this week that the Western Cape is creating jobs despite the 1% rise in unemployment nationally.
Figures from Stats SA show that unemployment in the DA-run province has dropped by 1,2% between the last quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of this year.
This means that jobs are on the increase in the Western Cape while across the other eight provinces the average unemployment rate is 26%.
The Western Cape did particularly well when one considers that in the Eastern Cape 60 000 jobs have been lost, in Gauteng 81 000 more people are unemployed and in Mpumalanga 34 000 have lost jobs.
What is the Western Cape doing that other provinces are failing to do?
Perhaps the President should ask the premiers of these provinces to visit the Western Cape and learn a few things from there."