📰 25/08/2021

🪧 DA calls on Cele to scrap draconian Gun Bill, submits over 100 000 signatures to Parliament

Today, the DA submitted more than 113 000 signatures to Parliament rejecting the gun ownership ban, ensuring that your voices are heard. Bheki Cele’s attempt to disarm law-abiding citizens must be rejected!

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/08/da-calls-on-cele-to-scrap-draconian-gun-bill-submits-over-100-000-signatures-to-parliament

✍️ DA welcomes Modimolle/Afriforum service delivery partnership

To help improve service delivery, a historic agreement was reached between the DA-run Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality in Limpopo and the community organisation Afriforum. This is exactly the kind of ‘whole of society’ approach that will help rebuild municipalities.

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/08/da-welcomes-modimolle-afriforum-service-delivery-partnership

🛑 Pernicious Employment Equity Amendment Bill will worsen economic crisis

Today Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour approved the Employment Equity (EE) Amendment Bill, a destructive exercise in social engineering that will worsen SA’s economic woes. The DA will oppose the passage of this legislation through Parliament and petition the President not to sign it into law.

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/08/pernicious-employment-equity-amendment-bill-will-worsen-economic-crisis

💉 I got my Covid shot today. Let’s all get ours

“Today I received the first of my Covid-19 vaccination shots. I want to encourage all South Africans who have not yet had the vaccination to go out and get it as soon as possible.

Bolstering the immunity of our society and keeping people out of hospital is the only way we will be able to return to normality soon, and this can only be achieved through vaccination.” – Writes DA Leader, John Steenhuisen

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/08/i-got-my-covid-shot-today-lets-all-get-ours

🚔 NPA must expedite State Capture prosecutions

The DA has called on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to demonstrate to South Africans that the evidence on State capture presented before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture will be taken seriously and prosecuted as a matter of urgency.

Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2021/08/npa-must-expediate-state-capture-prosecutions