Note to Editors: This is an extract based on a speech delivered by DA Shadow Minister of Arts and Culture, Niekie van den Berg MP, during today’s debate on the Arts and Culture budget vote in Parliament.
 

Note to Editors: This is an extract based on a speech delivered by DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Juanita Terblanche, during today’s debate on the Science and Technology Budget Vote in Parliament.

Note to Editors: This is an extract based of a speech delivered by DA Shadow Minister of Science and Technology, Junita Kloppers-Lourens, during today’s debate on the Science and Technology Budget Vote in Parliament.

The Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus warned our committee in April that South Africa was confronted with a toxic mix of low growth and high inflation.

She said that our economy was not in a good place and that we require interventions to address Stagflation.
 

Too often our society is personified by shocking violence. These days bring with them the real possibility of brutality on the platinum mines, of the bloodthirsty rape and murder of women, and of the massacre of our soldiers in other country’s wars.

The Minister of Trade and Industry has one of the biggest and most important mandates of any minister in the government. This Department is responsible, more so than any other department, for setting South Africa’s economy on a path of job-creating growth.

It is against this mandate that the Minister must be measured.

The year ahead is the last and final one for ministers in President Jacob Zuma’s administration, as it is for those of us giving the annual budget ripostes.

It is the year that will define the legacy of the Executive with Minister Robert Davies’ under scrutiny today, as it defines my contribution as representative of the Official Opposition.
 

Note to Editors:  This extract is based on a speech delivered by the DA Youth Leader, Mbali Ntuli, at the DA’s commemoration rally for its march to COSATU House.

Note to editors: This is an extract of a speech delivered by Helen Zille in Orange Farm today

Note to Editors: This is an extract based on a speech delivered by DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Health, Denise Robinson, during today’s debate on the Health Budget Vote in Parliament.