Every year, Members of Parliament deliberate on the budget, performance plans and targets of each government department and its entities. This process is followed by budget vote debates in Parliament where political parties are given an opportunity to share their inputs on these budgets with the public.

All the Democratic Alliance’s budget vote debate speeches for 2021 can be accessed below.

Thursday, 13 May 2021 

HEALTH: 

Siviwe Gwarube MP – SA government has spectacularly failed in its vaccine programme

Lindy Wilson MP – Minister Mkhize, you took an oath to protect our people

Haseena Ismael MP  – Heath SOEs not capacitated

 

COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS: 

Cilliers Brink MP – How to save SA’s failing municipalities

Eleanore Bouw-Spies – DA municipalities a perfect example of best practice!

 

AGRICULTURE, LAND REFORM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT:

Annette Steyn MP – Land reform in South Africa is a spectacular mess

Noko Masipa – Middleman phenomenon in the agricultural sector is shortchanging farmers

Thandeka Mbabama – Government ignores apartheid style evictions on vulnerable farm dwellers by ANC Cadres

 

HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING: 

Chantel King – Technical skills shortages and education a constraint to economic growth

 

SPORTS, ARTS AND CULTURE: 

Tsepo Mhlongo – The department has failed people within the sports and arts sector

Veronica Van Dyk  – We all need to speak up for the Arts, Culture and Heritage sector

Denis Joseph – Department needs to do more to save livelihoods

Friday, 14 May 2021

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR:
Michael Cardo MP – Unleash the private sector to create jobs
Michael Bagraim MP – For employees in South Africa today the future looks bleak

ENVIRONMENT, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES:
Annerie Weber MP – We need to protect our water resources
Cheryl Phillips MP – The winds of change

STATS SA:
Solly Malatsi MP – The ANC is crippling Stats SA towards dysfunctionality

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

TOURISM:
Manny de Freitas MP – Tourism grows when it is allowed to flourish
Hlanganani Gumbi MP – Our tourism budget must  reflect our policy priorities 
Hannah Shameema Winkler MP – The Tourism Department idles while SA tourist attractions turn to filth

TRADE, INDUSTRY AND COMPETITION:
Dean Macpherson MP – A plan to nowhere
Mat Cuthbert MP – Choose prosperity and not protectionist

MINERAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY:
Kevin Mileham MP – Mantashe has repeatedly demonstrated that he has no real desire to transform our energy sector
James Lorimer MP – Mineral Resources Department is incapable of doing its work

HUMAN SETTLEMENTS:
Emma Louise Powell MP – Millions spent on Human Settlements to reward patronage, not build houses

DEFENCE AND MILITARY VETERANS:
Kobus Marais MP – This budget will sink SA’s defence capabilities
Maliyakhe Shelembe MP – Military Veterans are entitled to have access to Assistance Benefits

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE:
Glynnis Breytenbach MP – Independent commission needed to investigate allegations of corruption against judges
Werner Horn MP – OCJ should be commended for the way it looks after the funds entrusted to it

COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY:
Cameron MacKenzie MP – Between SAPO and ICASA, South Africans keep losing
Zak Mbhele MP – Minister Ndabeni-Abrahams, this portfolio needs radical and innovative change
Phumzile Van Damme MP – Innovation lies at the heart of charting a new path for SA’s prosperity

SCIENCE AND INNOVATION:
Annelie Lotriet MP – Science and Technology Department needs all the support it can get
Nomsa Marchesi MP – Until government revisit its priorities, SA Research and Innovation will remain in crisis

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

WOMEN, YOUTH AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES:
Luyolo Mphithi MP – Youth constantly failed by Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Nazley Sharif MP – Department of Womxn, Youth and Persons with Disabilities fails to have any positive impact
Sibongiseni Ngcobo MP – Department further handicaps persons with disabilities

HOME AFFAIRS:
Angel Khanyile MP – Motsoaledi must step down before he leaves Home Affairs in same state he left the Health Department

Thursday, 20 May 2021

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES:
James Selfe MP – We need to revisit our sentencing regime
Werner Horn MP – Rehabilitation in our correctional centres have been hamstrung for many years

POLICE:
Andrew Whitfield MP – #SAPSBudgetSpeech: Defund the VIPs not the police!
Okkie Terblanche MP – SAPS as broken as the communities it has to protect

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION:
Darren Bergman MP – South Africa – the country of no consistency
Mergan Chetty MP – ‘Step aside’ is just empty rhetoric at DIRCO
Willem Faber MP – Even Cuba is benefiting while South Africans suffer

PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION:
Dr Leon Schreiber MP – Time for a government that gets things done
Mimmy Gondwe MP – Minister what is your creed for the public service?

BASIC EDUCATION:
Baxolile ’Bax’ Nodada MP – Education budget cuts mean poor learners will remain in the cycle of poverty and unemployment

NATIONAL TREASURY:
Geordin Hill-Lewis MP – Who runs economic policy in South Africa?
Dion George MP – Government’s economic policies sure to fail South Africa again

Friday, 21 May 2021

TRANSPORT:
Chris Hunsinger MP – Transport, driven by the ANC holds no promise of arriving anywhere
Thamsanqa Mabhena MP – A department characterized by empty promises
Sello Seitlholo MP – ANC’s failing BRT and IPTN programmes in Mangaung and Rustenburg a middle finger to South African taxpayers

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

PUBLIC ENTERPRISES:
Ghaleb Cachalia MP – State-owned enterprises model is dead, promises of reform are a farce
Michele Clarke MP – SOEs are the shovels being used to dig the country to the grave 

PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE:
Samantha Graham-Mare MP – Department of Public Works identity crisis crippling service delivery
Madeleine Hicklin MP – Department of Public Works entities are in a state of shambles

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT:
Bridget Masango MP – DSD and Treasury defies High Court orders and continues to fail vulnerable children and grant recipients
Alexandra Abrahams MP – Suffer Little Children
Gizella Opperman MP – Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling faal weerloses in afgesonderde gebiede

JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Glynnis Breytenbach MP – What South Africans want to see now, are more and faster prosecutions
Werner Horn MP – It is clear that the Department of Justice was on the brink of collapse

WATER AND SANITATION:
Leon Basson MP – Water is life, sanitation is dignity

SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT:
Jan De Villiers – The DA is the only party to provide economically viable circumstances for small business
Henro Krüger – Mister President, save our small businesses by helping government get out of the way

Tuesday, 01 June 2021

STATE SECURITY: 
Dianne Kohler Barnard MP – SSA runs like a bad soap opera

PARLIAMENT: 
Jacques Julius MP – Parliament is still fast asleep Madam Speaker, but the DA continues to work