•  Deliberate exclusion of Afrikaans from Funza Lushaka bursaries needs to be reviewed 
• DA believes all official languages should be protected and promoted 
• Shortage of teachers makes it essential programmes like Funza Lushaka do not discriminate against any single language group 

•  DA-run Western Cape Provincial Government rejects offer from SABC to buy ‘news’ coverage 
• Public Broadcaster not fulfilling its mandate of providing objective news coverage paid for by public funds 
• SABC is a sad and disappointing model of ‘ethical journalism’ as touted  by ANC in national media debate  

 The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the unprecedented decision to suspend all further deliberations on important defence legislation until the interim reports of the national defence force service commission have been handed over to the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans.

 This is an extract from a speech delivered by DA Leader Helen Zille at 12h15 today at the Suid Afrikaanse Onderwyser Unie Principals Symposium in Port Elizabeth. In it, Helen Zille proposes that the Labour Relations Act be amended to limit the rights of teachers to strike.

 Minister Angie Motshekga was scheduled to deliver the opening address at an education conference organised by the Afrikaans Language Council (ATR) in Cape Town on Friday, 27 August. But, she withdrew at the last minute, causing the steering committee serious embarrassment and forcing them to rearrange their program.

 In just five years, the DA-led City of Cape Town has reduced crime in Khayelitsha by 70%. A township once synonymous with violent crime, conditions in Khayelitsha have markedly changed since the introduction of the Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) program, an initiative of the City of Cape Town, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the German Development Bank (KfW).

 The Democratic Alliance (DA) will be writing to the Public Service Commission (PSC) requesting an investigation of the recent appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng to the position of Executive Manager for Stakeholder Management at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). 

•  Minister of Defence should urgently begin the process of de-unionising the Defence Force
• Sasfu president's call for solidarity strike could seriously disrupt health services being provided during public sector strike 
• DA will call Nyami Booi to brief the portfolio committee on plans to de-unionise the Defence Force

Byna almal in Suid-Afrika stem saam dat armoede en werkloosheid ons land se grootste uitdaging is. 

Almost everyone in South Africa agrees that our country’s major challenge is poverty and unemployment.