Hansard: NCOP: Unrevised hansard

House: National Council of Provinces

Date of Meeting: 04 Aug 2015

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Minutes

TUESDAY, 04 AUGUST 2015

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES

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The Council met at 14:00.

 

The Deputy Chairperson took the Chair and requested members to observe a moment of silence for prayers or meditation.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS – see col 000.

 

Mr M KHAWULA: Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting day of this House I shall move on behalf of the Inkatha Freedom Party:

 

That the Council —

 

  1. acknowledges with concern the devastating drought that has engulfed KwaZulu-Natal for most parts of 2015 which has now reached unbearable proportions;

 

  1. notes that even during rainy seasons, rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal battled for clean water;

 

  1. further notes that the situation has become extremely worse due to this drought;

 

  1. appeals to the Department of Water Affairs, water boards, KwaZulu-Natal government and all municipalities to strengthen measures of transporting clean water to the most affected areas;

 

  1. further appeals that this should be done through provision of Jojo tanks and supply of water to all the Jojo tanks irrespective of political dominance of the area; and

 

  1. appeals to communities to abide by measures announced to use water sparingly during these difficult times.

 

Ms E C VAN LINGEN: Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the DA:

 

That the Council —

 

  1. notes that the proposed section 139 intervention of the Makana Municipality has not served before the select committee of this House;

 

  1. further notes that the former administrator, Pam Yako, whose contract ended on 24 July with a R3 million cost to the taxpayer, has brought no meaningful result to Makana during her 9 months in office;

 

  1. also notes that in a reply to a question in the National Assembly it was revealed that she is the highest paid administrator in South Africa at over R350 000 per month for 3-days work per week;

 

  1. also notes that Pam Yako has rejected the Promotion of Access to Information Act, PAIA, application to make public the Kabusa report on irregularities in Makana Municipality; and

 

  1. calls on the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, to—

 

  1. ensure that all legal requirements are followed for section 139 administrative intervention;

 

  1. ensure that MEC Xasa clarifies his expectations in terms of section 139 and the progress to date;

 

  1. clarify the smoke screen around the employment of Pam Yako as administrator of Makana Municipality; and

 

  1. have the Kabuso report that was tabled in the Makana Council be submitted to the NCOP Select Committee, for the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, to review.

 

Mr F ESSACK: Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the DA:

 

That this House —

 

  1. notes the dysfunctional state of municipalities in Mpumalanga considering the recent recall of four mayors within the province;

 

  1. further notes that last week, mayors in Emalahleni, Lekwa, Dr J S Moroka and Thaba Chweu Municipalities were all fired;

 

  1. also notes that all four municipalities have been in financial disarray as proven by the Auditor-General’s latest financial report;

 

  1. notes that Mpumalanga municipalities have a combined unauthorized, fruitless and wasteful expenditure of R3,3 billion as at the end of 2013-14 financial year;

 

  1. further notes that Thaba Chweu has seen grave financial mismanagement and has recently been assessed by a task team assembled by the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, hon Gordon for a breakdown of services;

 

  1. also notes that Dr J S Moroka and Lekwa Municipalities have been notorious for their lack of services specifically to the poorest in the area;

 

  1. notes that the exposed water drainage leaking system remains unresolved, this considering South Africa’s looming water crisis;

 

  1. further notes that Emalahleni, under its municipal manager, has seen millions of rands in taxpayer money being wasted to deal with the crippling service delivery issues which carries on continuously and unabatedly;

 

  1. admits that political redeployment is not the answer to fix the state of Mpumalanga Municipalities. [Time expired.]

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Hon member, your time has expired; your motion will therefore be printed in full.

 

Mr N VON BUCHENRODER: Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting day of the Council I shall move on behalf of the DA:

 

That the Council —

 

  1. notes that the provincial roads in the Eastern Cape are not maintained due to what is referred to as poor planning;

 

  1. further notes that history is repeating itself - in 2014 tenders for provincial roads were not allocated;

 

  1. also notes that the department has only started now in August advertising the provincial road maintenance projects, which means that the full process of tendering will only be completed in November;

 

  1. further notes that this thus leaves us with insufficient time for maintenance until the end of the next financial year adding to this already unsustainable road infrastructure backlog in the province; and

 

  1. recalls that it is now the third time in the Fifth Parliament that we are calling for a debate on the road infrastructure maintenance and expenditure in the Eastern Cape and in other provinces.

Ms T G MPAMBO-SIBHUKWANA: Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that at the next sitting day of the House I shall move on behalf of the DA:

 

The Council —

 

  1. debates findings of the report released by the lawyers for Human Rights and African Centre for Migration and Society on the institutionalised corruption within the Department of Home Affairs;

 

  1. notes that the report contains shocking statistics, findings and procedures that reflects evidence of human rights abuses and rampant corruption at refugee reception centres;

 

  1. also notes that the findings in the report include —

 

(a)  evidence of rampant corruption in every step of the asylum seeker process;

 

(b)       asylum seekers are forced to pay large amounts of money just to get a place in the queue;

 

(c)       refugee reception office in Marabastad in Pretoria has the highest number of corrupt practices;

(d)       Home Affairs officials and security guards are demanding money for access to services; and

 

  1. vulnerable applicants who have no place to turn to are forced to pay large amounts of money for preferential treatment; and

 

  1. finally, believes that every asylum seeker should be actively safeguarded against corruption and maladministration, and should be afforded a fair chance to gain refugee status in South Africa.

 

SERVICE DELIVERY IN DE DOORNS

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Ms E PRINS: Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

 

  1. notes that service delivery remains at the heart of socioeconomic and developmental progress in De Doorns, according to local community leaders;

 

  1. further notes that the town was rocked by violent service delivery protests in 2010 and still faces the same challenges that brought the community to a boil;

 

  1. also notes that the community complains about not having access to municipal buildings and infrastructure and is often locked out and exposed to elements; and

 

  1. commends the National Development Agency for providing grant funding to the value of R1 million and Minister Bathabile Dlamini for handing over R300 000 to local organisations.

 

Motion accordingly agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.

 

THE IFP FOR WINS WARD 5 AT NTAMBANANA MUNICIPALITY

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

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Mr M KHAWULA: Hon Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

 

  1. congratulates the IFP on winning Ward 5 at Ntambanana Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, 22 July 2015;
  2. notes that this was a ward, previously in the hands of the ANC, but the people of the ward voted and gave their confidence in this by-election to the IFP as their party of choice to deliver services to them;

 

  1. also notes that this is a good barometer of what South Africa should expect in local government elections in 2016, because as others go down and as others, who were their comrades in arms against the will of the people, also get finish, the IFP is going up in numbers;

 

  1. further notes that the ganging-up against the IFP in KwaZulu-Natal is becoming history; and

 

  1. expresses gratitude to the people of Ntambanana for their strong, unshaken confidence and commits to them in a marriage without divorce into a bright future for that area;

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Is there any objection? In the light of an objection, the motion will be treated as a notice.

 

RESIGNATION OF A DA COUNCILLOR

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Mr A J NYAMBI: Chair, I move without notice:

That the Council -

 

  1. notes that a DA councillor was forced to resign after an alleged attack on his partner, on the eve of Women’s Month;

 

  1. further notes that the attack happened on Wednesday when his partner was seen running and screaming out of a house with blood streaming down her face;

 

  1. also notes that the allegation is that this assault is at least the sixth attack by the DA councillor; and

 

  1. calls on the DA to denounce the actions of their councillor, instead of supporting him, as they did in court yesterday.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP (Mr R J Tau): Is there any objection to the motion? In the light of an objection, the motion shall be treated as a notice.

 

TWO JOHANNESBURG METRO POLICE OFFICERS ARE IN A SERIOUS CONDITION

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Mr D L XIMBI: Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

  1. notes that two Johannesburg Metro Police officers who were directing traffic in Ivory Park are in a serious condition, after being shot by a pedestrian on Sunday evening;

 

  1. further notes that the police sergeant was shot twice in the upper body and both legs, while the other officer was shot in the neck; therefore

 

  1. calls on the police to leave no stone unturned in their quest to find the perpetrators of this violent crime.

 

Motion accordingly agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.

 

OPPOSITION TO URBAN TOLLING ALLIANCE

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Mr W F FABER: Chair, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

 

  1. notes that the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance, Outa, has derived that the Minister of Transport, Dipuo Peters’, report on statistics is showing an increase in e-toll collections;
  2. also notes that according to Outa, Minister Peters’ comparison of e-toll collections for May and June with the preceding seven months was misleading;

 

  1. further notes that when comparing revenue growth and business performance, it is important to equate this to the same period, last year, as well as the one’s original targets;

 

  1. acknowledges that Outa categorically states that any attempt to talk the e-toll numbers up, as a result of May and June’s e-toll revenues at R78 million, is nothing but a farce and according to the statistics released by Peters, payments of May was R76 million and for June R78 million;

 

  1. further acknowledges that payments ranged from R45 million in January to R68 million in March; and

 

  1. also notes that the DA maintains that the option of e-tolls is not the right way of collecting revenue for roads.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP (Mr R J Tau): Is there any objection to the motion? In the light of an objection, the motion shall be treated as a notice.

 

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU IS MAKING PROGRESS AFTER BEING ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL

(Draft Resolution)

 

Ms L L ZWANE: Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

 

  1. notes that the Nobel Peace prize winner, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, is making progress after being admitted to hospital last week;

 

  1. further notes that the struggle stalwart had an investigative procedure done at the weekend to establish the status of his infection; and therefore

 

  1. wishes his family strength in this difficult time and wishes Archbishop Tutu a speedy recovery.

 

Motion accordingly agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.

 

WATER SHORTAGE IN KHUTSONG IN MERAFONG, WEST RAND IN GAUTENG

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Mr J W W JULIUS: Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

 

  1. notes that the water shortage in Khutsong in Merafong, West Rand in Gauteng has reached critical levels and residents of Khutsong have been without water for weeks now because the water supplied by the municipality through tanker services is not enough and simply not sustainable;

 

  1. further notes that the Minister of Water and Sanitation must urgently intervene to ensure that water supply is restored to the residents of Khutsong; and

 

  1. also notes that Merafong should be declared a disaster area in terms of its water supply and dolomitic conditions.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP (Mr R J Tau): Is there any objection to the motion? In the light of an objection, the motion shall be treated as a notice.

 

CONCOCTED FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDERING AND CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST JULIUS MALEMA

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Mr V E MTILENI: Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council –

 

  1. notes that the concocted fraud, money laundering and corruption charges against the EFF’s commander-in-chief, Julius Malema, have been struck off the roll;

 

  1. further notes that the reason he was charged was because of his involvement in the Marikana for workers;

 

  1. also notes that the EFF appreciates the role that the independent judiciary and their ability to fulfil their functions without fear or favour and political intimidation;

 

  1. acknowledges that the court’s decision to strike the case off the roll is confirmation that the ANC government never had any legitimate case against the commander-in-chief;

 

  1. notes that the attempts by the corrupt ANC government to abuse the courts in pursuit of their political mechanisations have failed and will continue to fail, and that the EFF and the commander-in-chief will not be intimidated, nor shall we retreat;

 

  1. condemns the abuse of state institutions by Luthuli House to wage political wars against opposition leaders;

 

  1. calls on the National Director of Public Prosecution to stop their persecution of political opponents, to weaken the credibility of the National Prosecuting Authority, NPA, and the entire criminal justice system; and

 

  1. also notes that the EFF will continue to pursue its fight. I have heard ... [Interjections.]

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP (Mr R J Tau): Come again. No, no, his time has expired. The motion will be printed in full in the Order Paper, only to agree or disagree with that motion.

 

Ms E C VAN LINGEN: [Interjections.] Are we going to get an opportunity to object to that motion or not?

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP (Mr R J Tau): No, it is now being treated as a notice of a motion. The fact that his time has expired, the motion without notice is now being treated as a notice. It is going to be printed in full.

 

PASSING AWAY OF FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKETER, CLIVE RICE

 

(Draft Resolution)

 

Mr H B GROENEWALD: Chairperson, I move without notice:

 

That the Council -

 

  1. notes that former South African cricketer, Clive Rice, passed away in hospital last week Tuesday, after a long battle with illness;

 

  1. further notes that the 66-year old collapsed from a brain tumour,

 

  1. also notes that in February 2015, he underwent a surgical procedure in India;

 

  1. further notes that Clive Rice is described as a “great fighter”, one of the greatest all-rounders and captain of the game, cricket, South Africa has ever had; and

 

  1. wishes to send their condolences to the family and friends of the late Clive Rice.

 

Motion accordingly agreed to in accordance with section 65 of the Constitution.

 

MAINTENANCE AMENDMENT BILL

 

(Consideration of Bill and of Report of Select Committee on Security and Justice thereon)

Mr D L XIMBI: Hon Deputy Chairperson, Ministers, premiers, MECs and hon members, this is the Report of the Select Committee on Security and Justice on the Maintenance Amendment Bill dated 24 June 2015. The Maintenance Amendment Bill seeks to bring about key improvements to the maintenance system pending the finalisation of the review of the Act in its entirety by the SA Law Reform Commission.

 

Maintenance law aims to secure the rights of vulnerable groups, especially women and children. The South African maintenance system rests, on the one hand, on the judicial maintenance system which is based on the legal duty to support one’s dependants. The Maintenance Act 99 of 1998 was intended to address some of the challenges prevalent in the Maintenance Act 23 of 1963, particularly its enforcement mechanisms that were regarded as ineffective. The Maintenance Act of 1998 was enacted in order to provide a speedy and effective remedy at minimum costs for the enforcement of parents’ obligations to maintain their children.

 

It is important to note that over the last three years, the department has been implementing the Maintenance Turnaround Project focusing on the frontline services. Various policies and training interventions have been developed to improve service delivery overall. A national defaulter’s strategy was produced to guide courts on how to uniformly deal with defaulters and is being implemented; and a maintenance complaints management training module is intended to equip maintenance complaints managers with the appropriate skills.

 

Over the years, implementers of the Act have identified areas of the Act which require improvement. Therefore, the proposed amendments to the Act are aimed at addressing practical and technical problems experienced with regard to the application of the Act. The Bill is necessary in order to address the identified shortcomings pending the final recommendations of the SA Law Reform Commission, SALRC.

 

Key amendments to the Bill were effected to clauses 2, 4 and 11.

 

Section 7 of the Act deals with the investigation of maintenance complaints; clause 2 of the Bill aims to amend this section by placing an obligation on mobile cellular operators to provide maintenance courts with prescribed contact particulars of would be respondents and maintenance defaulters if that respondent or defaulter is in fact a customer of the cellphone service provider.

 

Clause 2 provides that if the court is satisfied that all reasonable efforts to locate the defaulter or would be respondent have failed, the court may issue a directive in the prescribed manner, directing one or more of the electronic communications service providers, to furnish the court with the contact information of the would be respondent or defaulter. The directive may only be issued as a last resort and if the court is satisfied that all reasonable efforts to locate the person have failed. These efforts will include tracing persons by maintenance investigators.

 

The cellphone service provider may, in the prescribed manner, apply to the court for an extension of the time set by the court on the ground that the information cannot be provided timeously or for the cancellation of the directive on the grounds that it does not provide a service to the person identified in the directive or that the requested information is not available on its records.

 

Section 10 of the Act deals with the maintenance enquiries by the court; clause 4 of the Bill aims to amend this section by placing a duty on the court to finalise maintenance inquiries as speedily as possible, by limiting postponements. The amendment also gives the court discretion to make an interim order for maintenance, pending the finalisation of the matter where it becomes necessary to postpone the inquiry.

 

Before making an interim maintenance order, the court must certify that, firstly, there are sufficient grounds that one of the parties is legally liable to maintain a person; and secondly, that a postponement will cause the person to be maintained undue hardship.

 

When the court makes a final maintenance order, it may confirm the interim order or set it aside and make any other order it may deem just in the circumstances. This amendment will address the problem of persons who when they have an obligation to maintain another person do everything in their power to avoid paying maintenance, thus causing those who are entitled to be maintained, who are mostly vulnerable, undue hardship.

 

Section 23 of the Act gives the maintenance officer discretion to give a clerk of the court a directive to transfer a maintenance order from one court to the other. It has been reported that this discretion leads to inconsistencies in interpretation and often causes delays in transferring orders, and should therefore be abolished. Clause 10 of the Bill seeks to amend section 23(1) of the Act by doing away with the discretion of the maintenance officer when transferring maintenance orders, and thus establishing a uniform manner in which orders are transferred from one maintenance court to the other. This clause imposes a duty on the maintenance officer to direct the clerk of the court where the order was made to transmit the file together with the prescribed records to the clerk of the relevant court.

 

This clause also contains a consequential amendment relating to the jurisdiction of maintenance courts, in terms of which a maintenance inquiry may be held in the maintenance court in the magisterial district where the maintenance applicant is employed, or carries on business, in addition to place of residence.

 

The Select Committee on Security and Justice, having considered the subject of the Maintenance Amendment Bill referred to it, reports that it has agreed to the Bill without proposed amendments. I thank you, Chair. [Applause.]

 

Debate concluded.

 

Question put: That the Bill be agreed to.

 

Mr V E MTILENI: Deputy Chairperson, on a point of order.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES: On what point are you rising, hon Mtileni?

 

Mr V E MTILENI: My point of order is that: I just want to check whether political parties were supposed to partake in this. It is like we are doing it vice versa. Was it not supposed to be section 76? I want us to check before we continue.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Hon Mtileni, you are raising a very good point. Let me just inform you ... [Interjections.]

 

Mr V E MTILENI: Please, Sir.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: ... in accordance with the rule. Because it is a section 75(b), it therefore allows political parties to vote on it. It is not a section 76. [Interjections.]

 

Mr V E MTILENI: Oh, ja.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Therefore in terms of Rule 63, it allows political parties to make their declaration of vote if they so wish. So, we are procedurally in order. So, let us proceed.

 

Bill agreed to in accordance with section 75 of the Constitution.

 

INTERNATIONAL MANDELA DAY

 

(Subject for Discussion)

 

The MINISTER IN THE PRESIDENCY: Deputy Chairperson; the Premier of the Eastern Cape; MECs; members of this august House; ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to be invited by the NCOP to address you today. I would like to congratulate the NCOP for finding space in its tight schedule to celebrate the gallantry, the wisdom and the legacy that was left by our late iconic leader, President Mandela. Your celebration today of International Mandela Day is not just a mechanical tick on the parliamentary calendar but a genuine appreciation of what the late President contributed to the development of this country – from being a pariah state to one that is respected throughout the world; from being a country that had been excluded from the family of nations to one that supports and sometimes leads all those programmes that create a common global citizenry.

 

It is therefore proper that on this day we thank all those who gave of their time and resources to make a contribution of 67 minutes. Indeed, across the length and breadth of South Africa, South Africans made their contributions in various ways. All of them were driven, not by the size or price of their contribution, but by a common desire to pay their respects to that colossus who strode amongst us. It is also proper that as South Africans we should appreciate that celebrations of Mandela Day make us temporarily forget our political differences and focus on the legacy that he left.

 

In a world where unanimity is a scarce commodity, we should be proud that this icon was able to draw the approval of 193 states that agreed that the 18th of July every year shall be globally celebrated as Mandela Day. We shall forever be indebted to those nations that have chosen Nelson Mandela for a special global celebration. I do not think they did this because they only loved Mandela the man, but also because they saw reflected in Mandela the espoused UN values of peace, development, harmony and justice.

 

Today's theme of making every day a Mandela day calls for sustained efforts every day to hold the memory of Mandela very dear. We must continue to hold that spirit of Mandela beyond the 67 minutes. Those who are in need are in need for more than 67 minutes. As we begin to appreciate the cleavages wrought by poverty, inequality and unemployment in our society, we should all join in appreciating that the 67 minutes is merely a symbolic gesture, but the real long term calls on all of us to live the life that Mandela lived throughout his years.

 

I am sure that in this city of Cape Town there are those in Bishopscourt who can, on a consistent basis, make the destitute state of Bishop Lavis better. I am sure that in Gauteng there are those across the road in Sandton who can make lives in Alexandra township permanently better. This can be replicated in many other cities where wealth and poverty sharply face each other.

 

This celebration is not for a production of hagiographies and a recreation of some cult of personality around Nelson Mandela. It is not a fashionable response to the worldwide celebrations. Having been in the same space of South Africa where Mandela and his comrades struggled and triumphed, we can only but appreciate the sacrifices that they went through. Having witnessed the loneliness of his life and the continued repression of those next to him during his incarceration, we have no alternative but to celebrate victory over adversity.

Mandela’s decision to serve one term also emphasised the power of collective leadership, and his confidence that South Africa has a huge pool and had groomed enough talent, and that below him there were capable women and men who can steer the ship of democratisation and transformation forward. He could have continued to hog the limelight, even after retirement, but he reminded us of the wisdom of solitude and self-reflection. It was the Mandela we grew to love and respect who reminded us of the need to concentrate on his well-earned retirement, saying in his sometimes wicked jocular manner that we should not phone him but he would call us.

 

Mandela‘s example of leadership captured the attention of the world. His memorial in December 2013 saw an unprecedented gathering of heads of state outside the UN system. Attended by more than 70 heads of state, a number of former heads of state, government representatives and international organisations, the gathering could only be characterised in superlative terms. The secretary-general of the UN, Mr Ban Ki-moon, could have been forgiven for asking for an urgent UN summit on the fringes of Mandela’s memorial.

 

In anybody’s language, a gathering of this nature is a logistical nightmare. Usually too reserved to highlight our successes and achievements, perhaps we as South Africans should again thank those who were in charge of the logistics for both the memorial service and the state funeral in Qunu. The excellent execution of these two state functions bears testament to the logistics maturity of our national Defence Force.

 

Mandela's First National Bank, FNB, memorial will also be remembered for having thawed the ice that had existed between Cuba and the United States of America. An uncharacteristic shaking of hands between the President of Cuba, Castro Ruz, and the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, sealed that reconciliatory spirit of the man affectionately known to the world by his clan name of Madiba.

 

As a sequel to this shaking of hands, in the middle of last month the United States of America and Cuba resumed diplomatic relations which had been frosty and broken off since the early 1960s. Even when lying in the cold bowels of the Qunu countryside, Nelson Mandela still talks peace and reconciliation.

 

I am also delighted by the progress that is being made towards the completion of the Mandela Children's Hospital. This will be a lasting tribute to Mandela’s love for children as the custodians of our country's future. That is why Mandela declared that, There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

 

Although Mandela’s efforts to obtain a Bachelor of Laws, LLB, degree from Witwatersrand, Wits, University in his earlier years was not entirely successful as a result of the attitude towards African students then, he was magnanimous in thanking Wits University with these words:

 

I am what I am ... both as a result of people who respected me and helped me, and of those who did not respect me and treated me badly.

 

It was credit to his resilience that Mandela was able to open a very successful first black law firm in the country with his comrade and friend, Reginald Oliver Tambo. He had surmounted another mountain in his struggle, and by opening this firm he put paid to the thoughts expressed by the Wits University dean of law who thought that, “Law was a social science, and women and Africans were not disciplined enough to master its intricacies."

 

The residual effects of these sentiments still exist within the legal training field today. In honour of Mandela, we call on all institutions of legal training and learning to challenge these archaic views. Again in Nelson Mandela’s honour, we also call on the students of law to resist the residual effects of these negative views. We should also call for more assertiveness from our youth that goes beyond the legal fields. Indeed as we speak, the anthropological imposition still bedevils our intellectual and academic space by insinuating that African minds are not suitable for certain academic disciplines. Our young students are still made to fear Mathematics and Science. It is up to us to point them in the direction of Mandela who proved that even when his dean thought his African mind could not understand the intricacies of law, he went on not only to be a good lawyer and a good President but an internationally recognised statesman. He went on to become the only South African whose day is celebrated globally.

 

Mandela taught us that courage will always overcome fear when he as a human being accepted his own fears, when he said:

 

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

 

He was not one to forget his friends, comrades and colleagues. As last week’s City Press shows, Mandela put the release of his comrades from Robben Island as a precondition to his own release. In the process of doing so, he cited their age. Little appreciated in our body politic is that Mandela did not only call for the release of members of his own organisation but went on to include Mr Jeff Masemola who belonged to the PAC.

 

He and his comrades worked very hard for our people and for the nation. Driven by President John Kennedy’s belief, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”, these leaders went beyond the call of duty to make a better life for all of us. We should emulate their dedication because if we do not do so we risk creating a nation that seeks to achieve nothing except that which government must give. We must encourage each and every one of our children that a solution is not what they are given but that which they themselves make, and that as they embrace that kind of attitude they would soon find out that there are many in alliance with them towards the resolution of our individual and collective challenges.

 

Mandela’s first encounter with education was a disarming one. As we speak, Mandela’s life and that of his movement has found space in South Africa’s higher education history books. By one swathe of reconciliation, his brand has removed from our previous history books the repetitious accounts of the achievements of races other than African.

 

In spite of the adulation that he received throughout the world, Mandela never forgot that he was a simple and fallible man like all of us. He never wanted to be seen as being above his organisation and other leaders he led with. He always saw himself as an individual within a collective. There is so much that we can learn from his deference to his other coleaders. Mandela put it so well when he said:

 

That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because then you are no longer a human being. l wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.

 

It is in this vein that we should be vigilant and guard against those interests that seek to single out Mandela as an exception to the movement that he voluntarily joined at a young age, led by others before him. He rose through the ranks of the ANC Youth League, displaying his leadership qualities as he grew within his organisation to reach the heights that he did. He went to prison as a member of the ANC. He was released from prison and assumed leadership of the ANC. He suffered for 27 years as a prisoner for pursuing the aims of his movement.

 

Humble to the point of self-denial, Mandela acknowledged that there were leaders before him. It is worth remembering that it was at the historic Ohlange High School that Mandela cast his very first vote in 1994. In paying tribute to Dube after casting his vote in 1994, Mandela went to the ANC’s first President John Langalibalele Dube’s grave and said, “Mr President, I have come to report to you that South Africa is free today.” [Applause.]

 

While we do appreciate that everybody likes Mandela now, we should be honest enough to admit that among those who lecture us about Mandela now, were the ones who never raised a finger when he went through his life‘s trials and tribulations. They love him more in death than they did in life. When they invoke his name they are selfishly using it to create an imaginary gulf between the Mandela years and current South Africa. Even as they praise the Mandela miracle they are as disparaging of the subsequent tenures. They are the first to tell the world that if things do not go their way as we transform our country, Mandela will be twisting and turning in his grave.

 

Let us as South Africans collectively claim the legacy left by Mandela in the manner that seeks to unite rather than divide us. If we claim that we love Mandela in one breath but in another deny South Africans the basic human rights he fought for, then we are disingenuous. If we claim we are taking a leaf from Mandela and then pay poverty wages, the 67 minutes will not absolve us from dishonesty. If we claim we loved Mandela and then go about destroying the unity that he built, we are not being true to his vision. If we praise Mandela’s leadership and then shoot down the legislative attempts to address our country‘s triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment, then we are pretending to be praising Mandela.

 

Deputy Chairperson, in December 2013 I had the honour to be asked by my party, the ANC, to pay tribute to Mandela in the National Assembly. Overcome by emotion, I articulated the power of emulation that the man invoked in me and many others. Using R Kelly's rendition of Whitney Houston's song, I Look to You, I said through that what many of us actually felt when he passed on. Even though we knew that he was not going to be with us forever and more so after his long period of illness and his advanced age, that day came like a bolt from the skies.

 

As I conclude, let me remind hon members that Mandela was our hero. The Wind Beneath My Wings was a song made famous by Gladys Knight and the Pips:

 

It must have been cold there in my shadow

To never have sunlight on your face

You been content to let me shine

You always walked a step behind

 

I was the one with all the glory

While you were the one with all the strength

Only a face without a name

I never once heard you complain

 

Did you ever know that you’re my hero

And everything I’d like to be

I can fly higher than an eagle

With you as the wind beneath my wings

 

[Applause.]

 

Mr F ESSACK: I haven’t even started. Hon Chairperson, hon members, guests in the House. The Hon Minister said, ask not what the country can do for you instead what you hon colleagues can do for your country.

 

So to begin with, Nelson Mandela of course is a name that has become more synonymous with South Africa than with the ANC of today. As the ANC desperately cling to power and continue to cripple our economy, through your actions hon members, through your actions hon members, you continue to denounce a legacy that Mandela fought so hard for.

 

But all is not doom and gloom for our country. I live in a country of hope, knowing that not all South Africans have forgotten Madiba’s legacy. A valiant legacy that is, of course represented, in the DA’s Vision for our country and I will tell you why. Indeed, we are of course the only party currently that continues to fight for freedom, fairness and equal opportunity.

 

Mandela’s words, “The struggle in my life,” which should not be taken lightly, seem to have fallen on deaf ears within the current ANC leadership. The fight for human rights and equality is far from over. Madiba’s fight for liberation has indeed not ended.

 

I say this with all respect to the ANC of today-you have lost your moral compass, you are tired. Give up before you completely eradicate the few pieces of Madiba’s legacy that you still so honestly claim to uphold.

 

If we as the leaders of this country. We in this House, as leaders of this country, a county that many, including Mandela and former ANC leaders like him have given their lives to, then I ask, I ask you colleagues-let us lead by example as leaders of our nation.

 

We cannot and I repeat, we cannot and must not through our conviction speak of making everyday a Mandela Day if our colleagues, our Ministers, our Deputy Ministers and our officials continue to jeer this country into corruption, criminal activity, the violation of basic human rights by consequences, the dignity of our people.

 

In 1994, listen carefully, Madiba reinforced and assured South Africans that our justice system will stand the belief of humanity and instil confidence in the nobility of the human soul. Listen carefully and apply your mind. Our current state of politics have deflected these powerful sentiments considering the state of governance in this country is under threat right now.

 

Recalling the Freedom Charter in word has become an insult, sadly an insult, to those who are denied the freedoms that it honestly and truly represents-and this having a direct impact on our people and our communities. This is the ignorance that the ANC of today represents, not Madiba’s ANC.

Today’s ANC cannot, and I say this with respect, today’s ANC cannot deny the tragedies that they have been responsible for in our very recent years and let me tell you why. I will name a few and digest this for your immediate reference.

 

You take for example the Marikana debacle, take the Nkandla debacle, take the Eskom debacle, take the state of our local government system, and take the state of a judicial system which is under threat, the attack on Chapter 9 institutions that you see from day to day. President Zuma sadly, is a symbol of corruption colleagues. [Interjections.]

 

Today, more than ever we need to move beyond looking at the ANC’s track record in the struggle. Today’s ANC is not of Nelson Mandela, no, it is not the one of Walter Sisulu, no; it is not the one of Oliver Tambo either, no. These leaders were the backbone of our struggle colleagues and through many dark times upheld the moral strength lost today by this very governing party. [Applause.]

 

To salvage our democracy colleagues, the ANC must turn the lens on and look at themselves on their track record in government very recently. What progress have we made to eradicate poverty? Honestly speaking. How are we changing the lives of our vulnerable South Africans? What is the level of basic services that is being provided to all South Africans currently? Where municipalities are failing, are we honestly then committed to Madiba’s cause of improving the livelihood of our nation? I ask you to think about this, digest this for immediate reference if you are true to your conviction.

 

Let us go back to the drawing board on educating us on healthcare services

 

HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): Hon Essack just hold on. On what point are you rising on hon [Inaudible]?

 

Mr T C MOTLASHUPING: Hon Chair, I just want to ask the hon member if he is prepared to take a question.

 

HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): Hon member are you prepared to take a question?

 

Mr F ESSACK: With due respect to the colleague to the colleague, the hon colleague, this is not a question and answer session. Sit down. You can talk to me just now.

 

HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): Are you prepared to take a question?

 

Mr F ESSACK: No, definitely not at this point in time.

 

HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): He is not prepared to take a question. Calm down. Relax. [Interjections.]

 

Mr F ESSACK: As I move towards conclusion and I have 55 seconds to go. I beseech the hon members here today who are still in supporter of your famous President Jacob Zuma to reflect on yourselves and use your self-knowledge and your moral conviction. Use your self-knowledge and your moral conviction colleagues to do right by the people that you so say you have liberated and begin to fight. Begin to fight against the moral regression that your leader has bestowed on this very government of the ANC.

 

To honour Mandela, in conclusion, to honour Mandela, let us then revere the qualities that he practiced in word and did. This is the only way colleagues to measure the progress we have made as a nation. And it’s the only way to honestly galvanise our nation and make everyday a day that is true to Mandela’s legacy. Thank you. [Applause.]

 

The PREMIER OF THE EASTERN CAPE (Mr P Masualle): Hon Chairperson, hon Minister and hon members of this august House, it is a privilege and an honour for me to participate in this important debate, to celebrate and give honour to our hero and our icon, not only ourselves as a country, but internationally.

 

Towards the end of his autobiography, our stalwart Nelson Mandela wrote “I always knew that deep down in every human heart there is mercy and generosity and that men’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden, but never extinguished.”

 

On 1 August 2015, the world adopted a blueprint that will inform the way we do business going forward, building on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals. Seventeen sustainable goals that will transform our world were developed ahead of their adoption by world leaders at the forthcoming United Nations summit taking place in September. These 17 goals will be the basis of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, a programme of action that will be implemented from 1 January 2016 to inspire change and live up to the values that Madiba stood and died for.

 

Perhaps one may ask what relevance this document - negotiated by member states in New York - has in terms of the debate today. The day itself, 1 August, reminds us of one of the atrocities, amongst many atrocities, that were committed in the past on our soil: the brutal assassination of a remarkable woman, Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, who died on 1 August 1985.

 

Perhaps at this point I may just say to the hon member who was speaking before me that the Nelson Mandela we are speaking about is the Nelson Mandela who was incarcerated and kept away from his people for a number of years. The system that was administered at that time has bequeathed to us legacies we still have to address to date.

 

And perhaps for those of us who have short memories ... I like what the Minister said here in that there are those who loved Mandela so much after he was out of office and when he was no more, but when he was incarcerated and languishing in jail they thought nothing of him, only that he was a terrorist. Thirty years later, we meet in these hallowed chambers as a concrete reminder of what people like Ms Mxenge and our Madiba did to change the course of history - courageous men and women who gave the world its human face, women and men who acted to inspire change through their daily actions.

 

Long after Madiba’s passing we come to this great Parliament of our people to pay tribute to a man whose contribution to humanity remains a beacon of hope. We meet here during this Woman’s Month a few days after launching and concluding what we have called Mandela Month.

 

The sequence of these months is not an accident of history. The umbilical link between Mandela Month and Women’s Month is a reminder of the intrinsic link that women’s struggles occupy in the history of our struggle.

 

During Madiba Month, a group of South Africans went up Mount Kilimanjaro on a pilgrimage, so that young girls need not stay away from school because they can’t afford sanitary towels. This is something that we know Madiba would have been proud of. Similarly, in our province and elsewhere in the country, schools were renovated, uniforms paid for for indigent learners, hospital wards painted, and bowls of soup served to many hospices and to the homeless. In so doing, we sought to emulate the values of the caring, humane society that Madiba espoused.

 

Our country marks 60 years of the Freedom Charter this year. Perhaps as we move South Africa forward, the good story of the precursor of the Freedom Charter, namely the Women’s Charter, must be taught in our schools lest we forget, like the hon member who spoke before me.

 

The adoption of the Women’s Charter inspired change as the women of our country took action to ensure that South Africa truly belonged to all who lived in it. It is on days like this that we once more pay tribute to and are reminded of the sterling efforts of many in our country, our Madiba and many others that lived for his cause.

 

It is on their shoulders that our country is building these foundations. Johnny Clegg pays tribute in his song Asimbonangato to these gallant heroes of our country.

 

Whenever our marine vessels patrol our coast, protecting our marine resources, the names of Lilian Ngoyi, Ruth First, Victoria Mxenge dance to the raging waves as testimony to their guardianship role over our democracy.

 

Inspired by the need to make the lives of others better, Victoria Mxenge took over the baton from her husband, Griffiths Mxenge, when he died and even then, true to her name, didn’t rest, establishing the Victoria Griffiths Education Bursary Fund. This is exemplified by many such funds that our hero Tata Mandela established in his lifetime.

 

Following in her footsteps and inspired by her generation, we also contributed more than R5 million this year to the University of Fort Hare to ensure that first-year students do not study on empty stomachs. Children must not study on empty stomachs. Victoria Mxenge was concerned about the maternal and child mortality rates, which continue to remain high. Today, we are happy to report that in the Eastern Cape, HIV infections, due to mother-to-child transmission, have dropped: of 29 000 HIV-exposed babies only 5 000 tested positive.

 

In ensuring access to equitable and quality health care services, district clinic specialist teams and school health teams have been appointed for all the districts. Last week our executive council approved the rolling out of the “one school, one social worker” concept to all our schools in the Eastern Cape on an incremental basis.

We didn’t end there. As part of building a caring society that places the interests of our children at the heart of our interventions, the executive council approved the official launch of the Ernest Malgas Treatment centre to provide safe homes for young people who are victims of substance abuse in and around Port Elizabeth.

 

In closing, Madiba wrote towards the end of his biography about walking the long road to freedom, “But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities.” We too dare not linger for our walk is not yet ended. We have to continue to inspire change as a daily occurrence in honour of the memory of our Madiba and many other struggle stalwarts that our country has produced. I thank you. [Applause.]

 

Mr S J MOHAI: Deputy Chairperson, once more, the DA attempts to divert us from attending to the real issues that are facing our people with their attempt to defend their hold on the hugely unequal economic relations in our country. When we celebrate Comrade Madiba’s legacy, we celebrate victory over crimes against humanity. In this debate, the ANC will unmask the DA for who they really are.

 

Comrade Minister Radebe, Comrade Premier Mosualle and colleagues, the Minister located the debate today in its proper context when he said that this debate takes place a few weeks after US-Cuba diplomatic relations were formally resuscitated. This marked the end of the US blockade in Cuba. The end of this blockade represented the triumph of the struggle by the Cuban people against the global hegemonic power of the post-Second World War period. It is a victory for self-determination for the people of Cuba to be free of impositions from global powers.

 

Cuba played an important role in the struggle to free South Africa. One of the things former President Mandela did upon his release was to strengthen fraternal relations and friendship between South Africa and Cuba. The term, South Africa-Cuba relations, does not exist in the vocabulary of the DA because Cuba helped liberate the people of South Africa.

 

Madiba always made it very clear to the global powers that no one could choose friends for South Africa, and, as fate would have it, the first public sign of the improving Cuba-US relations happened at Madiba’s funeral on 10 December 2013, when President Raul Castro and President Barack Obama shook hands and shared friendly greetings in public. It was the first time in 30 years that the heads of state of these two countries had been seen extending friendly gestures.

 

We fully agree with Minister Radebe. Nelson Mandela epitomises the high ground of the liberation struggle’s moral suasion, and he also wielded its compass. The release of Nelson Mandela from jail on 11 February 1990 is probably the one event that inspired great hope and possibility for national freedom. This found expression in the words former President Mandela had communicated five years earlier in a message read out by his daughter, Zindzi, at a mass meeting in Soweto:

 

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom ... I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. I will return.

 

This period in the early 1990s, leading to 1994, was marked by turbulence and uncertainty. It was in this period that, again, Madiba’s great leadership distinguished itself. The violence that escalated in many parts of the country in the early 1990s claimed several thousands of lives. The negotiations between the ANC and the apartheid government also had a back-and-forth syndrome in terms of progress. The apartheid regime was negotiating in a stop-start fashion, but a bitter, low-intensity conflict was part of its negotiating strategy.

 

In the aftermath of the Boipatong massacre of June 17, 1992, in which 45 people were killed by hostel dwellers accompanied by the police, while De Klerk was chased away by the community, Madiba calmed the masses of our people then driven by anger and the urge for revenge. When Comrade Chris Hani was assassinated on 10 April 1993, again, it was Comrade Mandela who addressed the nation. On what was still an apartheid-dominated SABC TV, he appealed for militant calm, for resoluteness, and for a definitive date for one-person-one-vote elections in our country. Such was the familiar sight of Madiba in those days – a peacemaker of note and a motor force for democratic transition in a situation that could easily have degenerated into a fully fledged civil war.

 

Mandela is one of the world’s greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century. In South Africa, he is associated with major historical events. He was also instrumental in the major phases of the history of the national liberation struggle. I would like to cite four phases of our history in which he was instrumental.

 

He played a leading role in the radicalisation of the ANC in the first period that began with the formation of the ANC Youth League, in 1944. It continued through the adoption of the 1948 Programme of Action, the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and the adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1955 – to which the DA is so vehemently opposed, and which remains the roadmap for the reconstruction and development of our people.

 

The second period began when he spearheaded the introduction of the armed struggle and the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe, which led to his 27-year-long incarceration on Robben Island.

 

The third period was the instrumental role he played in the negotiation that finally delivered the 1994 breakthrough.

The fourth period is the national reconciliation project. Following the 1994 democratic breakthrough, former President Mandela championed the policy of reconciliation and nation-building. It would have been tempting to counterpose reconciliation to socioeconomic transformation and say that no reconciliation was possible until and unless economic power was transferred to blacks and until land had been equitably transferred to blacks. Correctly, former President Mandela and the ANC conceived socioeconomic transformation and nation-building as mutually reinforcing components of our social transformation project that have to be pushed together.

 

Even though we have reached the stage at which we decisively need to push for more transformation on the economic front, still we must not neglect the important tasks of nation-building and reconciliation. The space for social transformation is always multidimensional; at once political, economic and cultural. The cohesion of society will therefore depend on the extent to which these dimensions overlap with one another.

 

We invoke the glorious legacy of Madiba to continue the course of revolutionary transformation to a prosperous and egalitarian future. For as long as poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment persist in South Africa, our long walk to Madiba’s Promised Land is not done. The assessment of the past helps draw useful lessons for the present work of our transformation. From a sound tradition of taking our own history seriously, the assessment of the past helps draw useful lessons for the present work of the revolution.

 

Nelson Mandela, in his pursuit of the liberation struggle, even in the midst of bitter confrontation, developed moral values of human compassion and solidarity far beyond the narrow confines of just opposition to the apartheid social system. He represented something great, not just something better than apartheid. He asserted the humanness of the human spirit, the search for a nation at peace with itself and other nations. He developed advocating the use of human intelligence to advance reconciliation, collective social comfort and harmony.

 

So, in the present, Madiba’s legacy can help us tackle two critical challenges facing our transformation. The first is the renewal of his own organisation, the ANC, as a driving force for social transformation. We will never abandon our responsibility to lead the people of South Africa. The second is the decisive economic transformation for addressing poverty, unemployment and inequality.

 

Nelson Mandela left us an undeniable legacy – the time-tested, noble revolutionary values of service, sacrifice and political foresight. We must undermine selfish values whenever they present themselves in our society, be it corruption or other ills. We have to acknowledge that this is happening on the back of a particular type of capitalist society, which promotes the supremacy of money over everything else in society. Crass materialism and individualism are also promoted as core values of this neoliberal, capitalist society we live in.

 

You, the DA, fail to appreciate the relevance of the Freedom Charter under the current conditions. We, as the ANC, are not surprised. You want a state that is paralysed and that cannot act in the best interests of the people of South Africa to take them out of poverty. [Interjections.]

 

Our own South African history is full of empirical evidence that our revolutionary values are not just a lofty utopia. They are a real force for change when properly imbued and practised.

 

Ms L C DLAMINI: (Point of Order) Hon Deputy Chair, I would like to check if it is parliamentary to say to a member, “That is nonsense”.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES: It is unparliamentary, hon members.

 

Ms L C DLAMINI: The hon Farhad said so.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Hon Essack, did you say that?

 

Mr F ESSACK: Yes, I did. It is a word from the Oxford Dictionary: “nonsense”.

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES: Hon member, it’s not about the word, but how the word is used, alright?

 

Mr F ESSACK: Would you like me to withdraw it?

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: It undermines the decorum of the House for one member of the House to say to another member that he is talking nonsense. Therefore, on that basis, may I request you to withdraw that statement?

 

Mr F ESSACK: Oh, absolutely. Sure. I withdraw it, absolutely. Thank you.

 

The DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON OF THE NCOP: Thank you very much.

 

Mr S J MOHAI: Deputy Chair, I did not know that the hon member gets angry when the truth is told – that he represents the interests of big business as opposed to the interests of the ordinary people of South Africa.

 

We borrow the battle cries of Madiba’s generation of revolutionaries for finding, once more, the spirit of the revolution, of profound social change and the renewal of our society. The second phase of our transition will stand or fall on the successes we make or fail to make on the economic front.

 

The climax of revolutions is the conquest of political power by forces of progress. The fundamental altering of economic relations is at the core of great revolutions. This is because the conquest of political power is not for its own sake, but for the purposes of effecting fundamental social change. The altering of economic relations is at the heart of social change because the basis of all societies is to be found in the economic relations of production and income and wealth distribution. The primary source of all social relations resides in economic relations.

 

Now, 21 years since the advent of political freedom, the need to alter economic power relations is looming larger. We must obliterate poverty and unemployment from the surface of South Africa as a matter of urgency. We must grow, transform and develop our economy for all our people to share in it.

 

The vision of democracy, nonracialism and equality will remain hollow if it is not realised in the economic sphere. So, we borrow from the generation of Madiba the battle cries of service, sacrifice, courage, consistency of principle and practice, tenacity and farsightedness for advancing the revolution to its logical conclusion. That is why complete social emancipation is still our road message to Madiba’s Promised Land. We, in the ANC, will remain committed to economic transformation to benefit all of our people. I thank you. [Applause.]

 

Mr E V DUBE (KwaZulu-Natal): Hon Chair, the Minister in the Presidency, premiers and MECs, sometimes when you speak about Madiba it causes other people to itch, but when you go to the people on the ground you see the roads that are named after Madiba; you see the suburbs, imijondolo [shacks] and squatter camps named after Madiba; and you see the parks and everything that is named after Madiba. This shows the type of leader that we as the ANC gave birth to.

 

Indeed, as the ANC we are blessed, humbled and more honoured to be an organisation that gave birth to this giant. Indeed, it is our unwritten commitment to uphold his legacy and ensure that his name will be spoken about for generations and generations to come. I posted on my Facebook page, “say something about Nelson Mandela.” Many people responded by saying, “you cannot use one word for Nelson Mandela.” Among the same young people whom the DA claims are voting for them, one wrote, “Some leaders are gracious; others are ambitious; the great ones are both.” The young person further wrote, “Mandela a father, a leader, a mentor ...

 

... ngutata owaye ngumzekelo woxolo ... [... that was an example of a father of peace ...]

 

... who followed what he believed; a person who will forgive with no regret. That is Nelson Mandela.” As Winston Churchill was steadfast in the face of tyrannical foes and as Mahatma Ghandi was to nonviolent resistance, so Nelson Mandela was to reconciliation with an oppressor. He said:

 

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goals. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

 

We in KwaZulu-Natal hold a very special place; obviously, we will also be in the heart of Nelson Mandela. We recall that KwaZulu-Natal was the last point of freedom before his arrest in Howick. His arrest represented a point of no return in our march towards a free and democratic dispensation. Madiba’s life has been synonymous with the fight for human rights, justice, peace, reconciliation, equality, and most of all selfless love, compassion and the triumph of the human spirit despite all adversity.

 

We remain indebted and shall forever be grateful to Madiba for his unique and exemplary leadership as the father of our rainbow nation. It is important to note that the province of KwaZulu-Natal will always be linked to the story of Nelson Mandela.

 

There are three important sites that are located in the province. One of them is the Manaye Hall in the Imbali township of Pietermaritzburg, where in 1961 Nelson Mandela made his last speech as a free man during the All-In African Conference.

 

The second one is the Nelson Mandela Capture Site outside Howick where Mandela was arrested on 5 August 1962. Therefore, tomorrow 5 August 2015 is the commemoration of the arrest of our giant. The capture site in Howick will forever stand as a monument in memory of a man whose commitment to the emancipation of his people mobilised all of humanity to rise up against a crime against humanity itself – apartheid.

 

One must say that in KwaZulu-Natal we have a very special race which is called the Mandela race and we are excited that it attracts a number of young people – thousands of them. That is in recognition of our hero. Many people will understand that when we recognise Nelson Mandela we are definitely recognising the ANC. As much as it causes other people to itch, Mandela remains a symbol of unity in the ANC and he will forever be ANC. We respectfully bow our heads in honour of a leader who was amongst us in KwaZulu-Natal during the darkest days of political violence ...

 

...njalo yona le mpi eyayiqhathwe ngabanye ontaba kayikhonjwa namhlanje asebecashe sengathi babelwela ukukhululeka kwelizwe ... [... by the way this conflict was perpetrated by you-know- who but today they are referring to themselves as if they were fighting for the freedom of this country ...]

 

... and persuaded people of this province to throw pangas, guns and knobkerries into the sea, and to find each other in peace as brothers and sisters, despite conflicting political inclinations.

 

During his years as a leader after his long period of imprisonment, Madiba became a shining beacon of hope, not only for the downtrodden of the world but also a living symbol of triumph of the human spirit against adversity. The world will always cherish the spirit of forgiveness. One reminded me that many people itch when we talk of Mandela because they have not reconciled – within themselves – that they are no longer the leadership of this country. We as the ANC are leading and we are leading well.

 

Let me tell you this before I sit down; when you speak about Mandela I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King Jr that still remains with us as the ANC. He said:

 

God give us leaders! A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;

Leaders whom the lust of office does not kill;

Leaders whom the spoils of life cannot buy;

Leaders who possess opinions and a will;

Leaders who have honour;

Leaders who will not lie;

Leaders who can stand before a demagogue and his treacherous flatteries without winking!

Tall leaders, sun crowned, who live above the fog in public duty and private thinking.

 

Indeed, we can make everyday a Mandela day as long as we keep these words in mind. Once more, we thank Mandela for being our leader and leading the ANC of the past, the ANC of the present and the ANC of the future. We will make sure that this generation will live to uphold the name of Nelson Mandela, and our beautiful ANC will lead, probably as we stand and preach to other people until the son of man appears again. I thank you. [Applause.]

 

Mr M KHAWULA: Hon Chairperson, hon Minister colleagues, on behalf of the Inkatha Freedom Party I stand here to salute the greatness that Dr N R Mandela has been to the people of South Africa and the world. Dr Mandela represents the few success stories that the world has ever experienced in the leadership circles. The leader of the IFP, Prince M.G Buthelezi, has always looked upon Dr Mandela as his "big brother”, an icon of the struggle for liberation, a statesman and a true compatriot. Having served together in the ANC Youth League, and having been in the struggle for liberation together, Prince M.G Buthelezi always refused to compromise the integrity of the struggle by accepting or agreeing to any pseudo-political solution that excluded the ANC, the PAC and other banned organisations: which also excluded Dr N R Mandela and all political prisoners and leaders in exile. That is the high regard which the IFP attached to Dr Mandela and others.

Dr Mandela was a leader of integrity, who put the people first before himself. He always looked at what he can do for the people rather than what the people can do for him. He put the plight of the people first before looking at his own plight (if he ever did). He never took away from the people, but always looked at providing for the people. This can be seen in his deeds as when he was no longer President of South Africa, but he continued to lobby for the development of poor communities even harder and more enthusiastically than before. He yearned for the comfort of the people before his own comfort. He never ran in and out of the courts because of allegations of greed, abuse and corruption. But was in and out of the courts for the good of all in the country.

 

The crucial question to look into today is what kind of lessons have leaders in South Africa, and South Africans in general, learnt from the life and times of Dr Mandela. He left a legacy behind. Are the actions of leaders, and people in general upholding his legacy or is it being broken into pieces by the negative behaviours that plague the leadership circles of our country.

 

The African people have been known, amongst other things, for some of the great values they have amongst themselves: The value of respect. Respect for ones humanity and for oneself; the value of sharing; courage and dedication for the ones we hold high in esteem; selflessness and forgiveness; integrity, the list goes on and on.

 

These are some of the character traits that Dr Mandela shared with us and left for us as a legacy.

 

It has only been a mere 16 years that he has been out of office but already, the feeling as we look and refer back to the years that he spent in office, is like looking back at "the good old days

 

We all have a responsibility to keep turning and blossoming Madiba’s wonderful legacy.

 

Dr Mandela’s era in office as President of South Africa lifted the image of South Africa to greatest heights in the international platforms. In forums like the UN, the OAU turned into AU, the European Union, the Economic Circles, South Africa and the name Mandela became a household name in every nation of the world.

 

The IFP also pays tribute to Mrs Winnie Madikizela Mandela, and the whole Mandela family for the endurance of their direct suffering during the time that Dr Mandela was incarcerated. During the whole of that period, they had to suffer the burden of the loss of a husband, a father, a grandfather, a family man, a leader and a friend. Yet, they never complained, but got strong each day in the knowledge that the loss was a service to the nation.

 

In conclusion, we sometimes get locked in ambiguous debates when in one moment, Dr Mandela belongs to all of us, and in the next moment, he belongs only to his political organisation.

 

Ms T K MAMPURU: (Point of Order)

 

Mr G P MASHEGO: MPUMALANGA MEC-HEALTH: Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, hon Thandi Modise, Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, hon Raseriti Tau, heads of provincial delegates in the National Council of Provinces, members of the National Council of Provinces, Minister in the Presidency, hon J Radebe, Minister of Science and Technology, hon N Pandor, Eastern Cape Premier, hon P Masualle, MEC’s, esteem and distinguished guests, people of South Africa, Africa and the World.

 

Please accept my warm and revolutionary salutations, from Mpumalanga and her people.

 

The place of the rising Sun, a tourist destination area, the coal mining hub and the supplier of energy in our country, South Africa’s largest Timber producers, the province that gave birth to Gert Sibande. Mpumalanga a predominantly rural province with vast economic opportunities for investment.

 

We have gathered here today, on the 4th day of August, a month dedicated to the heroines of our struggle and their contributions in the fight against the then unjust government of the time. Let me call upon all woman of our country to emulate Lilian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa, Sophia Williams, Winnie Mandela and many more. We must at any given time remember the heroic deeds of these brave daughters of our land.

 

Their journey in life has taught us that indeed freedom was never free, it was paid through their torture and suffering.

 

A lesson that says we must not dishonour the cause of freedom. Their heroic deeds bared the fruits of democracy that we all enjoy today.

 

Honourable Chair, we should educate the people of our country, the youth in particular, that this uniform that some so called overnight revolutionaries who have turned it into fashion, brings bad memories to these struggle veterans.

 

The poor and the working class of our country wears this uniform not by choice, hence they take it off immediately when they knock off. It cannot be that some amongst us in this house find it as hobby to wear it. Those that the brutal capital system has made it compulsory for them to wear it, do not like it.

 

It is with great pleasure for me to be part of this debate on the international Mandela Day which is conducted under the theme "Making everyday a Mandela Day-Galvanizing our nation to draw inspiration from the great compatriot and fearless fighter of our people.

 

As Mpumalanga, we have chriss-crossed the entire province and ensured that we embark on various activities that seeks to change the lives our people.

 

This was more than the celebration of our late Presidents’ legacy. lt was a token of appreciations to the first democratic president of our country and an act to change the globe for the better.

 

Allow me to draw from the legacy that has been left by this great leader.

 

In his entire life, Dr Nelson Mandela has led without favour or fear. He led with a brilliant mind in his various capacities, the ANC Youth League, being the former President of the ANC and President of South Africa. He was a selfless leader of our people, a world symbol of peace, the political Moses of our struggle, an honoured member of the order of Mapungubwe, iSithwaIandwe and a Nobel peace laureate.

 

Dr Nelson Mandela has been an inspiration for many people in the world, especially children as his heart remained close to them until his last breath.

 

He has taught and became a pillar of strength for many nations. That is why it is pivotal that we all draw from his legacy.

 

He is one leader who did not act based on requests. Where he saw a need, he would step in and act without thinking twice.

 

President Mandela dedicated his entire life as a member and as a cadre of the African National Congress. His life taught us the need for selfless dedication to the liberation and upliftment of our people. He dedicated his entire life, to the strategic objective of nonracial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa.

 

President Mandela lived and died for the ideas of building a developmental state. A state that will have the capacity to intervene on behalf of the poor and the working class.

 

It is only the African National Congress that has the capacity to can advance the struggle of the people.

 

Our former president led a battalion of man and woman in 1994 into this house to lay the foundation for first democratic parliament in the country, he led this country with honour and pride.

 

I can imagine at that stage, where some of the right wingers were still angry and denying that South Africa is free from apartheid.

 

With all of their anger and denial, we did not see the degeneration of this house; they conducted the business of this house with honour and respect.

 

Let me take this opportunity and warn these agent provocateurs that the masses of our people are watching them. Come 2019 they will speak and correct this terrible mistake. You are not the first one to come to the dance floor.

 

Every election since the down of democracy we have witness people who out of anger and greed behaved like excited molecules in a scientific process. Be warned that lies have short legs.

 

Our transition from Apartheid to democracy was hailed by many as a miracle. The collective wisdom of President Mandela kept the nation together even during difficult times. Indeed President lVlandela was a true leader.

 

In the eve of the 1994 general elections Cde Chris Hani was brutally murdered by those who were hell bent in destabilizing the country.

 

The people’s President addressed the nation and called for calm. In his own words he said "Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for - the freedom of all of us ... Our decisions and actions will determine whether we use our pain, our grief and our outrage to move forward to what is the only lasting solution for our country – an elected government of the people, by the people and for the people.

 

We are saying today even in the mist of the confusion that the enemy might bring, we must remain focus to the cause.

 

We must strive to give our people better services as the government of the day.

 

President Mandela warned us as early as 1993 that our detractors will at any given time destabilize us.

 

There is no amount of singing, disruptions and hauling that is going to defocus us.

 

Allow me to venture into the wisdom of President Patrice Lumbumba, who guided us to be proud that we belong to a great nation, a great country, a mighty power.

 

This power which the imperialist envy today, particularly those in blue and with their unholy friends in red, is embodied in national unity. This unity must be the heritage that we shall leave to our children.

 

We understand that president Mandela preached unity, unity and unity. Because he understood that united as a country we are strong and divided we are week. Together with his generation they once said unity is the rock on which the ANC is formed.

 

I’m saying today, it is only a united country that can fight against poverty, unemployment and inequality. In the spirit of Dalibunga let us all preserve the heritage of our future generations.

 

President OR Tambo once said open quote "a country that does not take care of its youth does not deserve its future" close quote, if we are worried about tomorrow, we will in memory of President MandeIa make our country and the world a better place.

 

I call upon all South Africans in the name of President Rolinhlahla Mandela to be part of a nation building. The program of nation building is above party politics, it is a program that every patriotic South African must carry.

 

Our people can learn a lot from this iconic leader. We have our young lions in the youth league, they must step into the shoes of this great former President that has ever lived. l am sure that this great statesmen left this world with a smiling face, knowing that he has a left a legacy that must be taken forward by our people.

 

Today we live in the world that is full of challenges. Our people, especially the youth, can step in and become the Nelson Mandela of tomorrow.

 

I would like to call upon our people, young and old, to ensure that the legacy of President Mandela lives on.

 

We want to take this opportunity to thank this great son of our land for his selfless dedications to the struggle against Apartheid Regime.

 

Aah DaIibhunga ... Aah Dalibhunga .... Aah

Dahbhunga ...

Ngiyabonga. [Thank you.]

 

Mr V E MTILENI: Avuxeni, Mutshamaxitulu. Ndza mi xeweta ndzi tlhela ndzi mi nhlikanisa hinkwenu. [Good afternoon, Chairperson. I salute you and good afternoon to everyone.]

 

For many, social ills such as high unemployment, hunger, filth conditions, alarming crime, rape of infants and old people, marginalised in the sidelined of the economy, characterise their daily struggles. I doubt when Nelson Mandela made a call to young people to take on the burden of leadership in addressing today’s social injustice, he had walks in the park, painting of the poorly build walls, delivery of food parcels once a year to the homeless and many of what appears to be a caucus in mind. Knowing Nelson Mandela, his courage, his patience, and his ability to fight for a cause in which he believes in no matter what it takes, when he said “it is not in your hands”, the question that we must ask ourselves is, what are we doing to make everyday Mandela Day? What are we doing to address the social injustice?

 

Before we galvanise the masses, get everyone to participate in Mandela Day. We must define it and take responsibility of the outcome of that definition. We live in one of the most unequal society, with deep rural unemployment and millions of people in South Africa go to bed in empty stomachs, this is a fact. More than 15 million people capable of working, cannot find employment, it is a fact. The ANC government continues to perpetuate legacies of apartheid, this is also a fact.

 

While many have turned the Mandela Day into an exercise of champion saviour behaviour, with food parcels and good marketing frenzy showing a good side for the good of those less fortunate, the question of what are we doing to address social injustice must still be asked. Answers are not comfortable but must be asked, and must define Mandela Day and social injustices we wish to address.

 

Land injustice, people cannot continue to be crammed in townships and squatters, landless. We need to make it an everyday cause a Mandela Day cause worth galvanising people for, to get land back to its rightful owners.

 

Economic injustice, our people cannot continue to work for slave wage and pick on the scraps of others. We need to make it an everyday cause, a Mandela Day cause worth galvanising people for, to get industrialisation and nationalisation of mines, banks, and other strategic sectors to build an equitable economy and society.

 

Education injustice, the quality education cannot continue to be a privilege for rich few and previously advantaged. We need to make it an everyday cause, a Mandela cause worth galvanising people for, access to free quality education for all.

 

Health injustice, it cannot be that millions of South Africans are left with depleted public health services where many are turned away at clinics that close at 16:00 in the afternoon as if people only get sick during the day. We need to make it an everyday cause, a Mandela cause worth galvanising people for, access to free primary health care.

 

South Africans cannot continue to celebrate Mandela Day without asking its meaning. It is the meaning that must be understood to be able to galvanise the masses for all the right reasons. If Mandela Day is to matter, it must matter for all the right reasons.

 

Inkomu Mutshamaxitulu. [I thank you, Chairperson.]

 

Mr M WILEY (Western Cape): Deputy Chairperson, today we remember an extraordinary man who, at a time of our greatest vulnerability, bound our country together and made us feel proud to be South Africans.

 

Let there be no doubt: the country was on a knife’s edge in the early 1990s and things could have gone seriously wrong, had it not been for the exceptional leadership of Nelson Mandela.

 

When Chris Hani was assassinated in 1993, it was Mr Mandela who called for calm amongst his own supporters, and appealed to them not to react violently to that cowardly deed.

 

It was Mr Mandela, who, through his keen political intuition, strove to be the strongest supporter of the Springbok rugby team in the Rugby World Cup, thereby endearing himself to his most ardent critics. We won the cup, and he won the nation’s heart.

 

He understood nation-building, even if it meant embracing your former enemy and his culture. He understood the importance of reconciliation. That was the Mandela effect: a phenomenon that captivated the world and will forever be a benchmark against which all leaders will be measured.

 

I had the privilege of interacting with Mr Mandela on several occasions while serving in the Senate, here in this Chamber, directly after the 1994 elections until its demise in 1997. In that time, I was honoured to participate in three Presidential debates, and one of them a Joint Sitting. In all three speeches – commonly known in opposition ranks as no confidence debates that were often marked by negative and critical diatribes – I chose to take a positive approach. This was frowned upon by my party bosses who wanted its members to score points off the government.

 

But, I was simply not prepared to attack a man who had dignity and likableness just because it was the done thing to do. So, I spoke on things close to my heart and things that I felt were important in the national interest – things presidential.

 

I spoke on the importance of the Navy and its critical role in protecting our trade and marine resources. At the time, there were rumours that the corvette deal with Spain was under threat and the Navy was in desperate need of vessels because these had been neglected for years. Mr Mandela made a specific point of thanking me and stressed the importance that a nation’s sovereignty was non-negotiable.

 

On another occasion, I spoke about my concern that the public spat between Mr Ramsamy and Mr Ackerman was going to affect our Olympic Games bid opportunity. Again, Mr Mandela responded and stressed how important role models were for our youth, as they were our most important asset, as he often said. He wanted them to strive for excellence, to be given opportunities, to reach for their dreams and to fulfil their potential.

 

On later occasions, I interacted with Mr Mandela primarily around the executive office I held, namely that of community safety. Here I saw another side to a man other than a political debater. He was a compassionate human being, quite the opposite to what I was led to believe in the 70s and 80s when the then regime painted everyone in the ANC as being evil.

 

On several occasions, he and I met at crime scenes or as a result of terrorist acts, especially where police officials had been killed or injured. His response to the injured and bereaved was so genuine; it was difficult to find anything objectionable about the man. He was virtually a first responder. It was as if he felt responsible for their dilemma and he wanted to support not only them but also his government departments. He backed his department heads to the hilt. He wanted to send a clear message that he did not tolerate lawlessness.

 

To me, personally, he was the epitome of courtesy and respect for the individual, even interrupting a press conference on one occasion to congratulate me on my appointment and introduce me to the media. He always remembered my name – which I found remarkable.

But, that spontaneity was not unusual for Mr Mandela. I once witnessed him instruct a choir to re-sing the national anthem and not just the Nkosi Sikelela portion. He insisted that our country was on a new path where all who live in it must be made to feel welcome.

 

He was, in every respect, within his personal, private life a dignified and cultured man who, in the words of Rudyard Kipling, could ...

 

talk with the crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings-nor loose the common touch.

 

Why do I reminisce in this way?

 

You will remember, I mentioned earlier that Mr Mandela set the benchmark for all leaders to follow. Little did we realise how far and how fast we would stray from that ideal in our own country. Within a few short years, we have seen the side of a leadership that is making not only the citizens of our country but people of the world tremble and shudder.

 

The South African government under Nelson Mandela, the jurist, respected the separation of party and state, the independence of Parliament and the courts and Chapter 9 institutions.

 

South Africa under Jacob Zuma is a different country. The Speaker of the National Assembly is also the chairperson of the ANC. We have continuous conflation between the ANC and the state in protecting the ANC. The Speaker calls on the police to remove Members of Parliament from the Chamber and fires those officials who have the guts to stand up to these excesses.

 

The ANC in Parliament speaks continuously of the Freedom Charter as if it was the national Constitution, which it is not.

 

An HON MEMBER: Hoor, hoor! [Hear, hear!]

 

Mr M WILEY (Western Cape): It increasingly speaks of the national democratic revolution while giving lip service to its own National Development Plan.

 

An HON MEMBER: Yes!

 

Mr M WILEY (Western Cape): Proposed draconian draft legislation gives every indication that the ANC now supports the revolution and not the plan.

 

The secretary-general of the ANC openly questions High Court rulings that do not favour the ANC, and implies that judges can be influenced.

 

Mr Mandela managed, through his personal integrity, defined by his personal behaviour as a leader, to be respected by all. When his marriage failed, the nation wept with him. We all knew that women felt safe and respected in his presence, that he loved his family.

 

This last weekend, when front pages exposed that it is alleged that one of Mr Zuma’s wives is implicated in a plot to poison him, one wonders, what went through the nation’s mind. The ensuing silence by all speaks volumes.

 

Where Mr Mandela urged frugality, humility, loyalty and the importance of the nuclear family, Mr Zuma sees the word nuclear as simply another opportunity to gain from big ticket concessions that the country can neither afford nor needs, but from which his extended family and friends will gather more riches at the expense of service delivery to the poor.

 

Mr Zuma’s supporters have called for a law to protect the dignity of the Office of the President because, through his own actions, he is unable to do so himself.

 

Mr Zuma continues to entrench the government’s manipulation of institutions and senior departmental appointments for political ends. Any Chapter 9 institution that dares oppose him is put under constant attack.

 

In a concerted campaign to avoid hundreds of corruption charges against Mr Zuma, the judiciary has been questioned, orders of court ignored and compliant officials appointed. Just this last week, the internationally respected Public Protector was refused the right to reply in the very institution that appointed her, in her endeavours to expose the travesty that has characterised the illegal squandering of public funds at Nkandla, the President’s personal home. [Interjections.]

 

When asked how they remembered Mr Mandela after his death, the people answered with words like integrity, vision and leadership. When he laughed – which was frequent and genuine – one got the impression that he was laughing with you, sharing your joy, never, at you.

 

Mr Zuma’s public guffaws as Parliament writhed in agony during the state of the nation address will go down as a sad day in our history. On a daily basis, the Zuma administration displays just how out of touch they are with the daily reality of the ordinary citizens of South Africa.

 

When 34 miners in Marikana were shot by the police or the horrendous acts of xenophobia filled television screens all over the world, his government dragged its feet, and his personal responses were days, even weeks, delayed.

 

His Ministers never accept blame or responsibility. They always hide behind lame excuses that it had been a collective Cabinet decision or, that some officials had acted without the Minister’s knowledge.

 

Just ask the National Police Commissioner what it feels like to be hung out to dry. Or our troops deployed in the continent’s conflict areas without adequate equipment and logistical back-up. Or the Public Works officials involved with Nkandla. Or those involved in the Waterkloof disgrace.

 

In the coming years, when water quality and availability, and food security issues will make our current power crisis look tame, it will be interesting to see if the masses remain as forgiving as these well-paid officials.

 

Our school education is in shambles. Our youth is restless, unemployed, challenged and, above all, betrayed.

 

President Mandela sometimes had to choose between what is best for the nation and what is best for the ANC. During the first general election, he made the ANC accept defeat in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. This saved the country from a potential disaster.

 

On the other hand, Mr Zuma is yet to rebuke, let alone act against the Western Cape ANC and its proxies, who have repeatedly called and acted to render the DA-governed province and metro ungovernable.

A media report claimed that overt racism in South Africa is becoming more prevalent.

 

We know what President Mandela did. What will Mr Zuma do? [Applause.] [Time expired.]

 

Ms L C DLAMINI: Hon House Chair, my greetings to the hon Minister from the Presidency, hon Premier from the Eastern Cape, MECs, special delegates, hon members, once again, if I was a teacher or a lecturer, I would have given the EFF and the DA minus 100. They have missed the point, big time.

 

I thought that it is us who don’t understand English because we received Bantu education. Fortunately, they went to model C schools and they are supposed to understand English. They did not understand the topic. Go back and analyse the speeches against the topic. They have missed an opportunity to tell the nation about how they will make every day a Mandela day; to make up for those who went through a name change; for the injustices they did to Mandela - calling him a terrorist. Now they are calling him an extraordinary man; the very same people; it is just that they changed their names. It shows the country that if they can rise to power again, they will take us back to exile. That is what they are displaying today. [Interjections.]

 

Mr W F FABER: Hon House Chair, I want to get clarity on the point which the speaker refers to as ‘just under a different name’. Is she speaking about the ANC members that come from the ...

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): No, hon Faber, hon Faber ... [Interjections.]. No, hon Faber ... [Interjections.]

 

Mr W F FABER: Just a point of clarity. I need to get clarity.

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): No, you know very well. It is either you are certain that the member is ready to take your question or you can ask your question. Unless you are asking me a question ...

 

Mr W F FABER: Then, through you, House Chair.

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): No. Through me, let’s ascertain. Hon Dlamini, are you ready to take a question?

 

Ms L C DLAMINI: He knows; I will not take it now. Outside.

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): She is saying no. Take your seat.

 

Mr W F FABER: Hon House Chair, but the clarity part. We don’t understand.

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): No, you can take your seat, hon Faber. Continue, hon Dlamini.

 

Ms L C DLAMINI: Hon House Chair, it could never have been a better time or a better month to discuss this theme as we celebrate women’s month. It is an honour to debate on the above-mentioned theme. We all know that hon Nelson Mandela, as a member and leader shaped by the ANC, made tremendous strides for the liberation of his people and people around the world.

 

Through the ANC, he dedicated to the building of a united, democratic, nonracial, nonsexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa and a just world. These are the principles and values of the ANC. He was living the principles and values of the ANC. Dr Nelson Mandela was a firm believer of women’s

 

 

 rights and he was passionate to bring about gender equality. In this regard, during the first opening session of the South African democratic Parliament in 1994, Comrade Nelson Mandela had this to say:

 

 

Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression ... .Our endeavours must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

He also mentioned that women should be empowered to intervene in all aspects of life as equals with any other member of society. In his tireless fight for gender equality, we saw women representation in South Africa’s Parliament increasing tenfold as compared to the apartheid government’s. Representation of women during that time was 2,7% and in 1994 it was 27% - after the first democratic elections. Comrade Nelson Mandela, a member and a leader of the ANC took action by appointing over a third of women in his Cabinet. He was leading by example.

 

The commitment to gender equality in the new government was affirmed by the election of Dr Frene Ginwa1a as the first Speaker of the National Assembly, and later Comrade Baleka Mbethe as the Deputy Speaker. The increase in women political participation is the result of two main factors. The first one is due to the work of women in the ANC. It was not a favour for women who have been actively involved in the struggle for national liberation and social emancipation to be put in positions; it was due to their contributions to the struggle of this country. The second one is the result of the policies and affirmative action mechanisms adopted by the ANC under the leadership of Comrade Nelson Mandela – meaning that it was not something that he dreamt of at home and came back to government and implemented. He was implementing the policies of the ANC. You can’t hate the ANC and love Mandela.

 

The ANC continued with the legacy of Tata Nelson Mandela on gender equality. Today, females make up 46% - I am talking about the ANC women in Parliament. This is not far off from the party’s goal to reach 50/50 gender parity. We therefore invite other parties to join the ANC and do likewise.

 

In recognising women of anti-apartheid, in his celebrated autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, Comrade Nelson Mandela acknowledged that man were not alone in the anti-apartheid movement. He states that the ANC Women’s League played a critical role in bringing down apartheid government, that’s your former government.

 

One of the most memorable moments came on 9 August 1956, when 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against legislation requiring black women to carry passes in urban areas. He stressed that and I quote:

 

The women were courageous, persistent, enthusiastic, and indefatigable and their protest against passes set a standard for antigovernment protest that was never equalled.

 

As a result, hon Nelson Mandela honoured those women 40 years later, in the name of the ANC, by declaring August 9 as a national holiday for women due to their participation in the struggle.

 

Comrade Nelson Mandela regarded democracy and gender equality as inseparable issues. On that note, in 1995, at the time of the drafting of our Constitution, he said:

 

As a tribute to the legions of women who navigated the path of fighting for justice before us, we ought to imprint in the supreme law of the land, firm principles upholding the rights of women

 

Consequently, in 1996, on International Human Rights Day, Dr Nelson Mandela signed the final draft of the country’s Constitution, granting South African women one of the most comprehensive set of rights in this world.

 

Comrade Nelson Mandela was not shy to speak up for women. I would quote one of his remarkable speeches that he delivered in 1996 on Women’s Day, whereby he called for full equality and an end to sexual violence against women. He said, “As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.”

 

He also remarked that as long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow.

 

Comrade Nelson Mandela was a firm believer in advancing women’s rights. Today the country is still faced with many challenges with regard to violence against women. As the ANC, we continue to commit ourselves to increase efforts to eradicate oppression of women. We do so fully aware that the scale of challenges facing women calls for broad mobilisation of society and a sustained momentum of diffusing a new consciousness, especially within the socialising agencies such as families and schools, to ensure that we educate them about women oppression.

 

This theme is asking us to reflect on the legacy left by the great leader and the member of the ANC, Comrade Nelson Mandela, in advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality. In so doing, as the ANC, we made it our business at the 53rd Conference of the ANC in Mangaung to ensure that through the ANC policy, the issues women still face today - the challenges, are addressed across the board. We have seen this come to fruition in the passing of the Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill in Parliament. It is therefore our duty as Parliament to ensure that women empowerment and gender equality is realised. Thank you. [Applause.]

 

Mr J W W JULIUS: Hon House Chairperson, members of this House, public in the gallery and all South Africans at large, I think we need to start with what hon Nelson Mandela taught us. He said:

 

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government. [Applause.]

He went on to say:

 

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

 

To emphasise, let me repeat this quote by Nelson Mandela:

 

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

 

Tata Madiba certainly sacrificed all for the freedom of the people of South Africa. Many of us draw inspiration from this. Unfortunately we cannot say the same about our current leaders in government. People of South Africa are still waiting to experience our current leaders sacrificing all for the freedom of them.

 

Hon Minister Rhadebe, hon Masaulle, hon Mohai, you all discredited the love that all people had and still have for Madiba. You know, different people loved him. It is not about the ANC. Different people loved him and supported him. For instance, Helen Suzman supported him. She visited him in jail and he invited her to stand next to him when he signed into law the Constitution. Different people loved him.

 

An UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER: He is a product of the ANC.

 

Mr J W W JULIUS: Yes, he is a product of the ANC but now he is a product of the world and please do accept it for once. Instead of claiming him you should live his legacy. Minister Rhadebe you also mentioned that Nelson Mandela put the release of his fellow political prisoners as a precondition of his own. That is a very good treat but when will this government put the people in front of their own interest?

 

The ANC as an organisation that Madiba sacrificed his life and freedom for all has become a modern day embarrassment within government and as a political party that unashamedly still claim to uphold the Freedom Charter and the Constitution. The current ANC and their corrupt leadership have put our institutions under threat and have put prosperity of our people at risk.

 

Hon Minister, who is pretending to love Madiba, who is withholding resources from our people and taking them for themselves? Mandela did not take fight for us to undermine what he and so many others worked hard to build. Hon Mohai, you pledged to deny any acts of corruption, really? The findings of the Public Protector that President Zuma must pay back part of the R264 million that was spent on Nkandla should then have been accepted. To overrule it through the Nhleko report goes against the respect for the rule of law, our Constitution and accountability to the people of South Africa.

 

Withholding of much needed funds for the Public Protector is denying ordinary citizens the right to approach the Public Protector’s office with their complaints. Why are these funds being withheld? Is it because of the revenge? She did a job and now she cannot get money. Maybe that is what we do. How can we honour Madiba’s legacy if we dishonour his values?

 

Mandela once famously said:

 

The rule of law as we understand it consists in the set of conventions and arrangements that ensure that it is not left to the whims of individual rulers to decide on what is good for the populace. The administrative conduct of government and authorities are subject to scrutiny of independent organs. This is an essential element of good governance that we have sought to have built into our new constitutional order. An essential part of that constitutional architecture is those state institutions supporting constitutional democracy.

 

This came from the man himself. How can you stand here and say you live his legacy if today you are fighting the very institutions that he worked hard for? The regression of Mandela’s vision within the current ANC will inevitable lead to the collapse of the governing party. I wonder how many councillors you will have in 2016. Just look and see.

 

Today’s ANC has less in common than the ANC of Mandela. The ANC has failed to build on the foundation Tata Madiba has left us with. As a visionary leader, Madiba strived for the development of all people of this country and the lives of the South Africans. We owe a lot to this father of our nation. Hon Chairperson, on a serious note, the DA is the only party that has continued living Mandela’s dream by creating a society that speaks of equality, freedom, fairness and opportunity in our lifetime.

 

Where we govern, through the inspiration that Madiba has left us with, the DA will keep on governing well, provide better service delivery and hold the ANC-led government accountable where they continue to deprive our people. That is what we owe Madiba. A leader would be privileged to have served our country. I thank you. [Applause.]

 

Mr L B GAEHLER: Hon Deputy Chairperson, hon Minister, premier and members, in deed Tata Mandela fought for social justice for 67 years of his life. So, dedicating 67 minutes of our time for the good cause is not sufficiently remarkable. During these 67 years he embodied the values of humanity. The UDM therefore, supports that everyday must be a Mandela Day. In this regard we need to ensure that Nelson Mandela International Day is imbued with durable, meaningful at every member of all our households in our country and the world over. It must inspire us and all human kinds to want to be part of changing the world for better regardless of use and beliefs we hold as long as we are glued by the values of this icon.

 

These values remain relevant and necessary. We happen to conquer our war to ensure that all citizens of the world have a daily meal, proper shelter, descent work with descent income and that all citizens are equal. This is so because the world remains beseeched by human sufferings, poverty which we must collectively do something as members of the society. Drawing inspiration from this great leader must make every public servant an obligation so that those entrusted with this duty discharge it as servants of the people.

 

Drawing inspiration from this great icon must lead us to society of ethics and must create active citizenship which is guided by ethical conduct. Rhodes and International Mandela Day is in July. This debate takes place four days into the national Woman’s Day in our country. Madiba would have reminded all that no nation shall be totally free until its women are free.

 

Qhwaba, Dlamini. [Kwahlekwa.] [Applaud, Dlamini. [Laughter.]]

 

As we draw inspiration from this great comrade we are going to restore the dignity of the most vulnerable, the woman, in particular the girl-child. Tata Mandela did not only talk the talk; we actively promoted the struggle for woman emancipation and amongst others promoted more in his cabinet. The International Mandela Day is also a great opportunity to galvanise and mobilise all citizens to be active in the struggle to advance women’s rights by raising the awareness of how discrimination, violence against women and the girl-child negatively affect the society.

 

Okokugqibela mama, andimboni ke laa mama. Utata uMtileni andikholwa nokuba ebengu-Model C. Iyandibhida loo nto leyo kuba ingathi naye wayefunde kwi-Bantu Education. Intonayo ndiyabona ukuba ingxaki nje kukuba ungakhange uthethe ngoomama ngale mini. Yiyo ke loo nto esithi ohloniphekileyo uDlamini nawe ukwali-Model C. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)

 

[Lastly mama, I don’t see that woman. I don’t think Tata Mtileni was a Model C. That confuses me because I think he learnt from Bantu Education. But I see the problem is that you didn’t talk about women on this day.  That is why he says to you Hon Dlamini you are also a Model C.]

 

You are not a Model C; you have learnt from the Bantu Education. Your mistake was to not talk about women. This is a woman’s month.

 

Makhe siziphathe kakuhle mhlobo wam. Okokugqibela, masithembe ke, Nkulumbuso yephondo, into yokuba ngokukhumbula uMandela, singa singakhe siqwalasele kwezi dolophu zikaMandela, ingakumbi phaya kuMasipala oMbaxa i-King Sabata Dalindyebo ukuze noko singahlazeki kakhulu. Iidolophu zibe mdaka oluyaa hlobo, Nkulumbuso! Neziseko ezingundoqo mazikhe zilungiswe noko ukuhlonipha eli qhawe. Ndiyakucela, Nkulumbuso yam. Enkosi. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)

 

[Let us behave my friend.  Lastly, let’s hope hon Premier of the province, if we commemorate Mandela, we can look carefully in the towns of Mandela, especially King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality so that we don’t get humiliated. Towns to be dirty like that, hon Premier! We also need to improve the infrastructure to respect this hero. Please, my hon Premier. Thank you.]

 

Mr S G THOBEJANE: Hon House Chairperson, hon Minister, hon premier, MECs, hon members of this august House, ladies and gentlemen, it’s nice to be applauded by your people when you are about to speak. Thank you very much for that. Making everyday a Mandela Day galvanises our people to draw inspiration from this great compatriot and fearless fighter for our people. It is important to start off this debate on the right footing by reminding everybody that today’s debate is about this great man, but not a day to show disrespect and insult one another. The man we are speaking about here today is a man who taught us a lot of things. He taught us to respect, to tolerate and to be patient with one another, but we seem to find these very difficult to understand.

 

He spent almost his entire life fighting for our rights so that we could be where we are today. Instead we need to use this day to commemorate the kind of a leader we happened to have amongst us. Nelson Mandela is the one who, despite the inhumane and cruel systems that governed this country, never allow himself to lose focus. However, he never did that being alone, but was with the ANC collective. It is the very same ANC that even today is still striving for the protection of the rights that he fought for.

 

It is in that context that all of us, while evaluating and assessing the progress made since the attainment of democracy, need to understand that we started to work from a blank slate. For the 21 years that we have been under the ANC-led government, nobody would claim that we had something to start working from. We were all in the dark. We had to start by establishing a government that will be able to govern the diverse people of South Africa.

 

Today I have heard one of the hon members in this House mentioning that Nelson Mandela would have not sat back and watch the shamble that is happening at Eskom. Look here, colleagues, when South Africa got liberated almost 60% of the citizens were not having access to electricity. And immediately after the attainment of democracy, the anger of the people of South Africa forced the ANC-led government to provide them with electricity. And when providing them – because what we wanted was to make sure that nobody should remain without electricity – we did not even care about the source for electricity supply. Hence, we are where we are today. But the difference is that we did supply the majority of our people with electricity, whether in shacks in rural areas or in townships.

 

We have built massive shopping malls, but nobody is talking about the development that this government has made. We need to be realistic. Whilst we regret to find ourselves in this situation with regard to electricity, but we cannot deny that we did the right thing. We will continue to provide our people with electricity, and to work until we achieve our goal.

 

The Nelson Mandela whom you are talking about, from his inception into politics, said that there is a course we must fight for in South Africa. And that is to make sure that South Africa does not remain the same moving forward. It has moved forward, of course, but this has always been determined by the prevalent conditions. We have to adapt to the different conditions. The conditions that prevailed in 1994 are not the same as those of today.

 

However, some people have a tendency of just talking as if they were sleeping somewhere outside the borders of South Africa and have just arrived today by a‘gumbagumba.’[Windowless panel van.] No, good people. We have to build this country. And when building this country, from time to time, we will draw lessons from our past in order to decide about our future.

 

It is good to assess the progress we are making, but it is equally wrong for us to stand here for the whole day, and instead of acknowledging the achievements we have made, forever talk about negative things. Can’t you see even one positive thing? Oh, I think that is abnormal. There is no society that can be in that way. In every society there should be both positive and negative things. Even during Tata Mandela’s tenure there were things that were difficult change; hence today we are still continuing to build on that foundation.

 

I want to believe that from today moving forward, given an opportunity we will look at things that we can do and that could help us build a better country ... [Interjections.] ...

 

The HONOURABLE MEMBER: You can’t talk while the chief is speaking.

 

Mr S G THOBEJANE: Hon Mtileni?

 

The HONOURABLE MEMBER: You can’t talk while the chief is speaking.

 

Mr S G THOBEJANE: I don’t know you to be that way. I want to believe that - and I am sure you would also agree with me - nobody can do something like that especially when important names such as that of Nelson Mandela are mentioned. [Interjections.] Maybe you can wait until one day when names such mine are mentioned and start to behave in that manner.

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON (Mr A J Nyambi): Hon Julias, why are you standing?

 

Mr J W W JULIUS: House Chairperson, I think the speaker on the podium is out of order. He is addressing a member directly in the House.

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON (Mr A J Nyambi): The point of order is sustained, hon Thobejane. Don’t address members in that manner. [Interjections.]

 

Mr S G THOBEJANE: House Chairperson and hon Mtileni, my apology. [Laughter.] Although we are continuing to build this country, but there are areas that still remain grey areas, such as the issue of services delivery. We are still struggling to make sure that every South African citizen receives the services that we intended to provide. We need to agree that we have got a common enemy facing all of us today, namely, unemployment and poverty. Those are the challenges that, as a society, we must unite and jointly deal with.

 

We cannot afford to come here and continue looking at ... Of course issues relating to racism are resurfacing in style day by day. There are still people who believe that their colour is a licence for them to get better services than others. That should not be the case. We need to make sure that we fight fearlessly against such kind of behaviour; fight for a South Africa that provides a better life for all our people. Our people want to experience a Mandela Day everyday of their lives. Thank you very much. [Applause.]

 

The MINISTER IN THE PRESIDENCY (S D Bhungane): Chairperson, as we close this debate on marking this very important international day of Nelson Mandela, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members who participated in this debate, in galvanising our nation in remembrance of the indelible contribution that our icon made in the struggle for freedom and justice in our country.

 

However, we should also recall that this month we are celebrating woman’s month so the struggle for freedom, justice and democracy in our country can never be one unless we also win the struggle for the total emancipation of our woman. Let us say: “Down with the exploitation and oppression of woman and the rape and sexual abuse against woman and our children”. Let us dedicate this day in fighting the scourge of patriarchy and all those intolerances against the discrimination of woman must come to an end.

 

Lastly, the icon that we celebrate, Mandela, would not have been there had it not be for another stalwart who made what Mandela is, that is Walter Sisulu. So, in celebrating Mandela Day, we should also recall the strides that Walter Sisulu and Oliver Reginald Tambo made in contributing so that you and I are free today.

 

Let us recall that these are the stalwarts who spend decades on the dungeons of Robben Island, Victor Verster and Pollsmoor Prison and also in the dark corners of the exile world. When they came out of jail, they came out of exile they never called for revenge, they never called for war, they never called for retribution, but they called for peace and reconciliation.

 

This is the South Africa that we are inheriting today, let us make Mandela Day every day in our lives until we have true freedom and that is the total emancipation of our people characterised by complete economic freedom for all in our country. With those words I would like to say thank you very much for this.

 

The HOUSE CHAIRPERSON: COMMITTEES AND OVERSIGHT (Mr A J Nyambi): On behalf of the leadership of the National Council of Provinces, let me take this opportunity to thank the Minister in the Office of the Presidency, the premiers, MECs, special delegates that are part of this debate. Indeed it is a confirmation that this is the only House that really represents the interests of the provinces, if we have special delegates joining us.

 

Debate concluded.

 

The Council adjourned at 16:29.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

THURSDAY, 2 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

1.       Assent by President in respect of Bills

 

  1. Banks Amendment Bill [B 17B – 2014] – Act No 3 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 25 June 2015).

 

TABLINGS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

1.      The Minister of Finance

 

  1. Corporate Plan of the South African Airways SOC Limited (SAA) for 2015.

 

MONDAY, 6 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

1.       Assent by President in respect of Bills

 

  1. Eskom Special Appropriation Bill [B 16 – 2015] – Act No 7 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 3 July 2015).

 

  1. Eskom Subordinated Loan Special Appropriation Amendment Bill (2008/09-2010/11 Financial Years) [B 17 – 2015] – Act No 6 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 3 July 2015).

 

TABLINGS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

1.      The Minister of Trade and Industry

 

(a)      Government Notice No 359, published in Government Gazette, No 38735, dated 30 April 2015: Amendments of the Compulsory Specification for Small Arms Shooting Ranges: VC 9088, in terms of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications Act, 2008 (Act No 5 of 2008).

National Council of Provinces

 

  1. The Chairperson

 

(a)     Statement issued in terms of section 106(1)(b) of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No 32 of 2000), on allegations of maladministration, fraud, and corrupt practices within Nongoma Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal.

 

Referred to the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs for consideration.

 

THURSDAY, 9 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

1.       Assent by President in respect of Bills

 

(1)      Financial and Fiscal Commission Amendment Bill [B 1B – 2015] – Act No 4 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 3 July 2015).

 

  1. Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill Amendment Bill [B 18B – 2014 (Reprint)] – Act No 5 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 3 July 2015).

 

National Council of Provinces

 

The Chairperson

 

  1. Referral to Committees of papers tabled

 

  1. The following papers are referred to the Select Committee on Security and Justice for information:

 

  1. Funding Agreement between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the United Nations Inter Regional Crime and Justice Research Institute with its annexure in terms of section 231(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.

 

  1. Annexure to Funding Agreement between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the United Nations Inter Regional Crime and Justice Research Institute.

 

  1. The following papers are referred to the Select Committee on Security and Justice for consideration and report:

 

  1. Proclamation No 40, published in Government Gazette No 36857, dated 20 September 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 41, published in the Government Gazette No 36857, dated 20 September 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 38, published in the Government Gazette No 36846, dated 18 September 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 51, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 53, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 50, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 52, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 54, published in the Government Gazette No 37114, dated 10 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 55, published in the Government Gazette No 37114, dated 10 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 56, published in the Government Gazette No 37114, dated 10 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 58, published in the Government Gazette No 37152, dated 18 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  • Proclamation No 16, published in the Government Gazette No 37410, dated 6 March 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 17, published in the Government Gazette No 37410, dated 6 March 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  • Proclamation No 22, published in the Government Gazette No 37540, dated 8 April 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  • Proclamation No 23, published in the Government Gazette No 37540, dated 8 April 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 24, published in the Government Gazette No 37540, dated 8 April 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 36, published in the Government Gazette No 37709, dated 11 June 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 39, published in the Government Gazette No 37758, dated 20 June 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 64, published in the Government Gazette No 38011, dated 22 September 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 74, published in the Government Gazette No 38220, dated 18 November 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 75, published in the Government Gazette No 38220, dated 18 November 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 81, published in the Government Gazette No 38286, dated 5 December 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 82, published in the Government Gazette No 38286, dated 5 December 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 85, published in the Government Gazette No 38287, dated 5 December 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 6, published in the Government Gazette No 38473, dated 18 February 2015: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 22, published in the Government Gazette No 38795, dated 15 May 2015: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 23, published in the Government Gazette No 38795, dated 15 May 2015: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

TABLINGS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

  1. The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

 

  1. Revised Strategic Plan of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for 2015‑16 to 2019‑20.

 

  1. Revised Annual Performance Plan of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for 2015‑16 to 2019‑20.

 

  1. The Minister of Police

 

  1. Funding Agreement between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the United Nations Inter Regional Crime and Justice Research Institute, tabled in terms of section 231(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.

 

  1. Annexure to Funding Agreement between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the United Nations Inter Regional Crime and Justice Research Institute.

 

  1. Proclamation No 40, published in Government Gazette No 36857, dated 20 September 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 41, published in the Government Gazette No 36857, dated 20 September 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 38, published in the Government Gazette No 36846, dated 18 September 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 51, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 53, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 50, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 52, published in the Government Gazette No 37024, dated 14 November 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 54, published in the Government Gazette No 37114, dated 10 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 55, published in the Government Gazette No 37114, dated 10 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  • Proclamation No 56, published in the Government Gazette No 37114, dated 10 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 58, published in the Government Gazette No 37152, dated 18 December 2013: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  • Proclamation No 16, published in the Government Gazette No 37410, dated 6 March 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  • Proclamation No 17, published in the Government Gazette No 37410, dated 6 March 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 22, published in the Government Gazette No 37540, dated 8 April 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 23, published in the Government Gazette No 37540, dated 8 April 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 24, published in the Government Gazette No 37540, dated 8 April 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 36, published in the Government Gazette No 37709, dated 11 June 2014: Notification by President in respect of emnities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 39, published in the Government Gazette No 37758, dated 20 June 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 64, published in the Government Gazette No 38011, dated 22 September 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 74, published in the Government Gazette No 38220, dated 18 November 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 75, published in the Government Gazette No 38220, dated 18 November 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 81, published in the Government Gazette No 38286, dated 5 December 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 82, published in the Government Gazette No 38286, dated 5 December 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 85, published in the Government Gazette No 38287, dated 5 December 2014: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 6, published in the Government Gazette No 38473, dated 18 February 2015: Notification by President in respect of emnities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 22, published in the Government Gazette No 38795, dated 15 May 2015: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. Proclamation No 23, published in the Government Gazette No 38795, dated 15 May 2015: Notification by President in respect of entities identified by the United Nations Security Council, made in terms of section 25 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities, 2004 (Act No 33 of 2004) and tabled in terms of section 26 of the Act.

 

  1. The Minister of Trade and Industry

 

  1. Additional Protocol to the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of South Africa, of the One Part, and the European Community and Its members States of the Other Part, to take account of the Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union, tabled in terms of section 231(2) of the Constitution, 1996.

 

  1. Explanatory Memorandum to the Additional Protocol.

 

THURSDAY, 16 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

1.       Assent by President in respect of Bills - correction

 

  1. Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill [B 18B – 2014 (Reprint)] – Act No 5 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 3 July 2015).

 

The above announcement replaces the announcement contained in the ATC of 9 July 2015.

 

TABLINGS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

1.      The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

(a)      Report of the Auditor-General on the Special audit of the rural household infrastructure grant and rural household infrastructure programme [RP 206-2015].

 

2.      The Minister of Social Development

 

(a)      Report and Financial Statements of the Central Drug Authority (CDA) for 2013-14 [RP 247-2015].

 

3.      The Minister of Trade and Industry

 

(a)      Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Economic and Trade Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe, tabled in terms of section 231(3) of the Constitution, 1996.

 

(b)      Explanatory Memorandum on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Economic and Trade Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

 

Please note: The following entry replaces item 1(a) under Tablings in the Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports (ATC) in the name of the Minister of Trade and Industry published in ATC of 6 July 2015, on page 2624:

 

  1. Government Notice No 518, published in Government Gazette, No 38877, dated 19 June 2015:  Amendments of the Compulsory Specification for Small Arms Shooting Ranges: VC 9088, in terms of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications Act, 2008 (Act No 5 of 2008).

 

THURSDAY, 23 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

1.      Draft Bills submitted in terms of Joint Rule 159

 

  1. Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill, 2015, submitted by the Minister of Trade and Industry.

 

Referred to the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry and the Select Committee on Trade and International Relations.

 

MONDAY, 27 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

1.       Assent by President in respect of Bills

 

  1. Appropriation Bill [B 6 – 2015] – Act No 8 of 2015 (assented to and signed by President on 24 July 2015).

 

WEDNESDAY, 29 JULY 2015

 

TABLINGS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

1.      The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

(a)      Education Sector Report 2013-14 of the Auditor-General South Africa – July 2015 [PR 204-2015].

 

THURSDAY, 30 JULY 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

National Council of Provinces

 

The Chairperson

 

  1. Message from National Assembly to National Council of Provinces in respect of Bills passed by Assembly and transmitted to Council

 

  1. Bill passed by National Assembly and transmitted for concurrence on 30 July 2015:

 

  1. Merchant Shipping Amendment Bill [B 12 – 2015] (National Assembly – sec 75).

 

The Bill has been referred to the Select Committee on Economic and Business Development of the National Council of Provinces.

 

2.    Membership of Committees

 

  1. The following changes have been made to Select Committees:

 

Select Committee on Economic and Business Development (Economic Development, Energy, Labour, Transport, Public Works and Small Business Development)

 

Appointed: Hon. Ms Z. Ncitha (ANC: Eastern Cape) Resigned: Hon. Mr. L. Suka (ANC: Eastern Cape) Appointed as an alternate: Hon Ms. N. Mokgosi (EFF: Northern Cape) Resigned: Hon. Mr. M. A. Matebus (EFF: Northern Cape)

 

Select Committee on Trade and International Relations (Trade and Industry, Tourism and International Relations)

 

Appointed: Hon. Ms Z. Ncitha (ANC: Eastern Cape) Resigned: Hon. Mr. L. Suka (ANC: Eastern Cape) Appointed as an alternate: Hon Ms. N. Mokgosi (EFF: Northern Cape) Resigned: Hon. Mr. M. A. Matebus (EFF: Northern Cape)

 

Select Committee on Land and Mineral Resources

(Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Rural Development and Land Reform, Environmental Affairs and Mineral Resources)

 

Appointed: Hon Ms. N. Mokgosi (EFF: Northern Cape) Resigned: Hon. Mr. M. A. Matebus (EFF: Northern Cape)

 

Select Committee on Communications and Public Enterprises

(Communications, Telecommunications and Postal Services, Science and Technology and Public Enterprises)

 

Appointed: Hon Ms. N. Mokgosi (EFF: Northern Cape) Resigned: Hon. Mr. M. A. Matebus (EFF: Northern Cape)

 

Select Committee on Finance

 

Appointed as an alternate: Hon Ms. N. Mokgosi (EFF: Northern Cape)

Resigned: Hon. Mr. M. A. Matebus (EFF: Northern Cape)

 

Select Committee on Appropriations

 

Appointed as an alternate: Hon Ms. N. Mokgosi (EFF: Northern Cape)

Resigned: Hon. Mr. M. A. Matebus (EFF: Northern Cape)

 

FRIDAY, 31 JULY 2015

 

TABLINGS

 

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

1.      The Minister of Environmental Affairs

 

(a)      Government Notice No R. 43, published in Government Gazette No 38417, dated 23 January 2015: Amendments to the Regulations on the Fees for Consideration and Processing of Environmental Authorisations and Amendments thereto, made in terms of sections 24(5)(c)(i), 24(5)(j) and 44(1)(a) and (b) of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No 107 of 1998).

 

(b)      Government Notice No R. 44, published in Government Gazette No 38417, dated 23 January 2015: Amendment to the Regulations on the Fees for Consideration and Processing of Applications for Waste Management Licences, Transfer and Renewal thereof, made in terms of sections 45(2), 52(4)(a), 55(3)(a) and 69(1)(dd) of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No 59 of 2008).

 

(c)      General Notice No 83, published in Government Gazette No 38436, dated 30 January 2015: Bioprospecting Permit Application, made under regulation 17(3)(c) read with regulation 11(1)(a) of the Bioprospecting, Access, and Benefit Sharing Regulations, 2008, read with Chapter 6 of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No 10 of 2004).

 

(d)      General Notice No 411, published in Government Gazette No 38779, dated 11 May 2015: Draft National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations, made in terms of sections 12(b) and (c) and (53(aA), (o) and (p) read with section 57 of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No 39 of 2004).

 

(e)      General Notice No 447, published in Government Gazette No 38809, dated 19 May 2015: Amendments to the regulations on Bio-prospecting, access and benefit-sharing, made in terms of section 97(1), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No 10 of 2004).

 

(f)      General Notice No 470, published in Government Gazette No 38813, dated 20 May 2015: Proposed Language Policy, made in terms of Regulation 3(2) of the Use of Official Language Act, 2012 (Act No 12 of 2012).

 

(g)      General Notice No 450, published in Government Gazette No 38803, dated 22 May 2015: Draft Appeal Regulations, made in terms of section 74 read with section 83(1)(j) of the National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No 24 of 2008).

 

(h)      General Notice No 475, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of West Coast National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(i)       General Notice No 476, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Marakele National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(j)       General Notice No 477, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Mountain Zebra National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(k)      General Notice No 478, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Tankwa Karoo National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(l)       General Notice No 479, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Richtersveld National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(m)     General Notice No 480, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Table Mountain National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(n)      General Notice No 481, published in Government Gazette No 38822, dated 29 May 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Namaqua National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(o)      Government Notice No 453, published in Government Gazette No 38842, dated 29 May 2015: Regulations regarding fees for the provision of Aviation Meteorological Services, made in terms of sections 28(1)(b) read with sections 4(2)(e) and 21(1)(b) of the South African Weather Service Act, 2001 (Act No 8 of 2001).

 

(p)      General Notice No 493, published in Government Gazette No 38833, dated 29 May 2015: Draft Amendments to the Alien and Invasive Species Lists, 2015, made in terms of section 66(1), 67(1), 70(1)(a), 71(3) and 71A of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No 10 of 2004).

 

(q)      General Notice No 541, published in Government Gazette No 38857, dated 5 June 2015: Draft National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations, made in terms of sections 12(b) and (c) and 53(aA), (o) and (p) read with section 57 of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No 39 of 2004).

 

(r)       General Notice No 503, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Draft Biodiversity Management Plan for 11 Critically Endangered (CR) and 4 Endangered (EN) Encephalartos species, made in terms of section 43(1)(b)(i) read with sections 43(3) and 100 of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No 10 of 2004).

 

(s)      General Notice No 534, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of West Coast National Park, in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(t)       General Notice No 535, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Marakele National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(u)      General Notice No 536, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Mountain Zebra National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(v)      General Notice No 537, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Tankwa Karoo National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(w)     General Notice No 538, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Richtersveld National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(x)      General Notice No 539, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Table Mountain National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(y)      General Notice No 540, published in Government Gazette No 38844, dated 5 June 2015: Declaration of land to be part of Namaqua National Park, made in terms of section 20(1)(a)(ii) of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No 57 of 2003).

 

(z)      General Notice No 550, published in Government Gazette No 38863, dated 12 June 2015: Draft regulations prescribing the atmospheric emission licence processing fee, in terms of sections 53(o), 37(2)(a), 44(3)(a), 45(1) and 47(3)(a) read with section 57(1) of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No 39 of 2004).

 

(aa)    General Notice No 551, published in Government Gazette No 38863, dated 12 June 2015: Amendments to the list of activities which result in atmospheric emission which have or may have a significant detrimental effect on the environment, including health, social conditions, economic conditions, ecological conditions or cultural heritage, in terms of sections 21(1)(b) of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No 39 of 2004).

 

(bb)    General Notice No 597, published in Government Gazette No 38894, dated 26 June 2015: Draft Air Quality Offsets Guideline, in terms of section 24J(a) of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No 107 of 1998).

 

2.      The Minister of Finance

 

(a)      Government Notice No R. 170, published in Government Gazette No 38507, dated 25 February 2015: Amendments of Regulations made under section 72, in terms of section 72(1)(gA) of the Long-term Insurance Act, 1998 (Act No 52 of 1998).

 

(b)      Government Notice No 171, published in Government Gazette No 38508, dated 25 February 2015: Notice in terms of section 12T of the Income Tax Act, 1962: In respect of persons or entities that may administer financial instruments or policies as tax free investments, in terms of section 12T(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No 58 of 1962).

 

(c)      Government Notice No R. 172, published in Government Gazette No 38509, dated 25 February 2015: Regulations in terms of section 12T(8) of the Income Tax Act, 1962, on the requirements for tax free investment, in terms of section 12T(8) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No 58 of 1962).

 

(d)      Government Notice No R. 173, published in Government Gazette No 38514, dated 25 February 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/1/1512), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(e)      Government Notice No 175, published in Government Gazette No 38509, dated 25 February 2015: Fixing of rate per kilometer in respect of motor vehicles for the purposes in section 8(1)(b)9ii) and (iii) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No 58 of 1962).

 

(f)      Government Notice No R. 186, published in Government Gazette No 38541, dated 6 March 2015: Regulations in terms of section 12L of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No 58 of 1962): On the allowance for energy efficiency savings.

(g)      Government Notice No R. 209, published in Government Gazette No 38563, dated 13 March 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/1/1513), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(h)      Government Notice No R. 246, published in Government Gazette No 38603, dated 27 March 2015: Amendment of rules (DAR/144), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(i)       Government Notice No R. 252, published in Government Gazette No 38611, dated 27 March 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/1/1514), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(j)       Government Notice No R. 254, published in Government Gazette No 38611, dated 27 March 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/5A/160), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(k)      Government Notice No R. 255, published in Government Gazette No 38611, dated 27 March 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/5B/161), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(l)       Government Notice No R. 256, published in Government Gazette No 38611, dated 27 March 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 6 (No. 6/3/42), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(m)     Government Notice No R. 261, published in Government Gazette No 38616, dated 27 March 2015: Amendment of Regulations, in terms of section 90 of the Banks Act, 1990 (Act No 94 of 1990).

 

(n)      Government Notice No R. 307, published in Government Gazette No 38681, dated 10 April 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/1/1515), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(o)      Government Notice No R. 308, published in Government Gazette No 38681, dated 10 April 2015: Amendment of Schedule No. 1 (No. 1/1/1516), in terms of section 48 of the Customs and Excise Act, 1964 (Act No 91 of 1964).

 

(p)      Government Notice No R. 309, published in Government Gazette No 38682, dated 10 April 2015: Amendment of Regulations, in terms of section 90 of the Banks Act, 1990 (Act No 94 of 1990).

 

3.      The Minister of Public Enterprises

 

  1. Report and Financial Statements of Transnet SOC Ltd (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) for 2014-2015, including the Report of the Independent Auditors on the Financial Statements and Performance Information for 2014-2015.

 

TUESDAY, 4 AUGUST 2015

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

National Assembly and National Council of Provinces

 

The Speaker and the Chairperson

 

1.       Bills passed by Houses – to be submitted to President for assent

 

  1. Bill passed by National Council of Provinces on 4 August 2015:

 

  1. Maintenance Amendment Bill [B 16B – 2014] (National Assembly – sec 75).

 

2.      Draft Bills submitted in terms of Joint Rule 159

 

  1. Public Service Commission Amendment Bill, submitted by the Minister of Public Service and Administration.

 

Referred to the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration and the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.

 

2.      Classification of Bills by Joint Tagging Mechanism (JTM)

 

  1. The JTM in terms of Joint Rule 160(6) classified the following Bill as a section 75 Bill:

 

  1. Children’s Amendment Bill [B 13 – 2015] (National Assembly – sec 75).

 

  1. The JTM in terms of Joint Rule 160(6) classified the following Bill as a section 76 Bill:
  1. Children’s Second Amendment Bill [B 14 – 2015] (National Assembly – sec 76).

 

TABLINGS

 

National Council of Provinces

 

1.      The Chairperson

 

  1. Statement issued in terms of section 106(1)(b) of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No 32 of 2000), on allegations of impropriety, and irregular practices within Mnquma Local Municipality (Eastern Cape).

 

Referred to the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs for consideration.

 


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