Hon. Speaker, The grim reality of a national unemployment rate of 35.3% and that over 7.6 million South Africans are looking for work, should be the driving force prompting government to take urgent action to create job opportunities. We can no longer sit and listen...
House Chairperson – it is another year, another Budget Vote Debate and yet the Department of Home Affairs remains broken. Despite the best efforts of Minister Motsoaledi, his Deputy and that of the DG, this Department remains dysfunctional and functioning in a...
Honourable Chairperson, South Africa, the region, continent, and the world face unprecedented and widespread political and socio-economic instability. Violent extremism is spreading and is in fact already establishing itself upon our borders and within our country....
Hon. Speaker, The devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of the Eastern Cape have demonstrated the great need to continuously invest in infrastructure and maintenance. As we understand from media reports of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure,...
Honourable Chairperson, The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) remains a shadow of its former self. All but crippled due to years of budget austerity measures and the loss of professional career military personnel, the SANDF’s defence readiness in respect of...
