DA run Western Cape attracts global investments
Global tech giant Google declares R2.2bn investment into Cape Town and the Western Cape. This will boost the local economy, create more jobs and opportunities to maintain the Cape’s low unemployment figures. This is yet another endorsement of the DA’s good governance. Other large coporates such as Amdec, Capita, Lactalis and Teraco also declared investments
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DA run Western Cape launches Municipal Energy Resilience project
The Western Cape government has launched its three-year Municipal Energy Resilience (MER) project to assist municipalities to take advantage of the new energy regulations, which may include buying energy directly from independent power producers (IPPs). The project is part of the provincial government’s plans to create an energy secure future in the Western Cape. To support
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Ward 48 Newsletter 1/2020
Dear Ward 48 Residents. The last few months have been the most difficult for all of us, family have lost their loved ones to the dreadful COVID 19, people have lost their jobs, businesses closed down and the City was placed under administration by the ANC Provincial Administration. Lest we forget the impact this had
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CITY OF TSHWANE FINANCES IN CRISIS
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE MAYOR3 NOVEMBER 2020CITY OF TSHWANE FINANCES IN CRISISMY FIRST PRIORITY WILL BE TO RESTORE FINANCIAL STABILITY IN THE CAPITALIn the last four days since taking office, I have been working hard to get up to speed with what has been happening in the City of Tshwane while it was under administration.
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DA Leader Steenhuisen’s Acceptance Speech
Fellow South Africans, I cannot think of a more fitting place from which to speak with you today than this beautiful City of eThekwini. Twenty-one years ago, I made my way up the steps of the Durban City Hall for the very first time, as the city’s youngest ever elected councillor. Back then – as
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ACCEPTANCE SPEECH DELIVERED BY NEWLY ELECTED TSHWANE EXECUTIVE MAYOR RANDALL WILLIAMS
Office of the Executive Mayor Block B | 2nd Floor | Tshwane House | 320 Madiba Street | PretoriaPO Box 440 | 0001 | www.tshwane.gov.zaTel: 012 358 4903 Email: sallym@tshwane.gov.za I www.tshwane.gov.za I www.facebook.com/CityOf Tshwane 30 OCTOBER 2020 Madam Speaker; Honourable Chief Kekana and his entourage, Honourable Chief Mahlangu and his entourage, Chief Whip of
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Mayor Williams will restore DA stability, good governance, and service delivery to Tshwane
Issued by John Steenhuisen MP – Leader of the Democratic Alliance 30 Oct 2020 in News The Democratic Alliance (DA) congratulates its candidate Randall Williams and his team on his election as Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane at a Council meeting today after months of turmoil and uncertainty in our nation’s capital. This
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Send them all to jail!
Issued by Siviwe Gwarube MP – DA Shadow Minister of Health The following speech was delivered during Parliament’s Debate of National Importance on Corruption related to Covid-19 tenders. Speaker, South Africans can be forgiven for having foreseen that months after the world’s most devastating global health crisis, this House would debate the theft and misuse
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SCA Tshwane judgment a huge victory for the DA and democracy
The following remarks were delivered today by Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader, John Steenhuisen MP, during a media briefing. The Democratic Alliance welcomes today’s long-awaited judgment from the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissing, with costs, the Section 18(4) appeal lodged by the Gauteng Provincial Government in July this year. This appeal sought to delay the
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