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POLITICIANS
2008 The best results will be achieved when we act together
in our various formations and communities to make intolerance of any
kind a thing that our country will not tolerate. It is also noted, however, that the progress achieved thus far remains vulnerable to the risk of serious reversal…. You must never undermine the energy of young people, because by character they will fight each other if they disagree. The various Roads and Stormwater districts have
re-aligned and re-prioritised resources in order to increase cleaning
frequencies on high flood risk prone areas. Despite the City's preparedness, we would like to point
out that flooding and mudslides may still occur due to variable
climatic conditions. What has the process produced so far? In brief, the
process has had a pronounced effect on the situation, particularly the
situation or the climate under which the recent elections took place.
The elements that were the outcome of this process, which influenced
the shape of that climate, were the constitutional amendments by a team. We have improved a great deal regarding the coordination
of our international work and some of our efforts are yielding positive
results in pursuit of our economic development and inclusion
imperatives. The meeting facilitated by the department of foreign
affairs later this month where necessary coordination and synergies of
programmes will be consolidated will further strengthen this work. In your defense of our revolution, we believe you will
be motivated by the moral inclinations and biases to the cause of our
struggle as values preceding any other, and the intellectual abilities
emanating from your own learning. The Department will strive to facilitate the development
of sustainable Integrated Provincial Infrastructure by providing
leadership in the planning, management and implementation of programmes
through optimal utilization of resources for accountable and customer -
oriented service delivery for a united, non - racial, non-sexist,
democratic South Africa. This is an important consideration for the City, as the
reduction of pressure on its infrastructural capacity is a necessary
imperative to creating that enabling environment for economic growth
which is nationally mandated. I believe that this country has the necessary supportive environment; as
contained in our legal frameworks, the policies, the strategies, the
organisational arrangements as well as the leadership and partnerships
necessary to mount a robust response. Many of us in this room are aware that South Africa has great potential
with regard to making the necessary advances in many critical areas that
are part of modern technologies. We must therefore rise to strike in correct directions
and teach our people to be able to distinguish between essence and
phenomenon; what is or has been necessary to do and what is or has been
possible to do. As indicated last year that our objective is to provide
support to our divisions to realise our objectives, we have created
internal enabling support to all our core functions… The secondary function is to enable internal organisational coherence within the regulatory compliance framework. Education remains one of the building blocks of social
and economic transformation. This can be borne by the education
system being elevated in society as a vehicle that would ensure mass
participation thereby improving the outcomes of the system. This
will not only improve, but propel our education system in a new
direction, thus deepening democracy. The overall thrust of our commitment is continuity that
seeks to pursue the massification of the six-peg policy to combat
underdevelopment and fight poverty. This represents the culmination of
a series of integrated trends that have characterised the progress of
the Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture over the past several years.
Now is the time for action. Honourable Speaker, we do not propose to
pursue massification for its own sake. We will carefully determine the ends to which massification is a means. We must carefully determine how to use the principles of massification
to achieve appropriate measures of success. The Six-Peg policy that we
have carefully crafted since 2005 is such a means to an end. We have
now established more firmly the nature of the imperative ends to which
the Six Pegs are an effective means. Honourable Members of the
Legislature, we live in an integrated world in which local, national
and international social and economic imperatives impact upon what we
do. These imperatives constitute an ever-changing context to which we
must adapt, align and arrange our activities and aspirations.
Accordingly, our policies and associated budgets are guided by a number
of crucial considerations. To proposition and present a coherent and concrete way
forward on youth development, there is a conspicuous necessity to note
conjectural and objective features of youth development in South Africa. The brief overviews laid on each area identified will
serve as a basis for further discussion, resolution and implementation
of the programmes agreed in the intensification of social
transformation. The document should contribute to the redefinition of
youth involvement in the intensification of social transformation in
the present conjecture. A thorough understanding and positioning of
youth development and social transformation in South Africa requires a
proper characterisation of youth in South in the present conjecture. The 52nd National congress of the ANC has challenged our
mandate as the youth league, in our plight to rally young people behind
the ANC and to champion the challenges of our past by providing a
netter life, for all, in all spheres of government, bearing the dynamic
political sphere, then the challenge is to rise up to meet the demands
and needs of our developmental state and as such our governance and
legislation has to be at par with the needs of young people. Rekindling the policy imperatives to accelerate economic absorption. A targeted, focused, time bound, resourced and youth
centred economic development policy becomes an epicenter to achieving
this fundamental imperative for real economic cohesion and integration.
Invariably, binding constraints must be identified and eliminated. In
this regard, fundamental questions have to be asked as we analyse and
review these policy impacts on youth economic inclusions and
employment. What is the current material state of the youth in this
country, both in qualitative and quantitative terms? What are the
challenges facing real youth economic integration, and what has been
the impact of policy impact designed for this purpose? Is the framework
that should inform a systematic and systematic youth development
strategy for the next decade, and if so, what it the nature of its
construction and constitution, and if not, what are the obstacles and
impediments, and how should they be resolved?... What timelines and
benchmarks are needed to track execution? These challenges demand of us to refocus and rejuvenate
our resolve, and ensure that change and continuity remains the
epicentre of our strategic discourse. The point I was making was that if people make that call
we can't stop them, we can't say, look, even if the overwhelming
feeling is that we need a referendum for an example, because that's the
only thing you could do. And I said yesterday if they say we want a
referendum, we can't stop them. Business tourism continues to thrive with a resilience that seems to defy
the looming threat inherent in the many economic and social curved balls
presently at play in our world These costs had been mitigated by value engineering. On the occasion of the Opening of the Fifth Sitting of
the Third Mpumalanga Legislature, we have gathered customarily again,
driven by the belief, among others, that the presence of each one of us
here today serves to generate positive energy and enthusiasm for our
province, once more, to lunge forward in a spirited push to bring
relief and realise a better life to millions of South Africans who live
in this province. We will not allow anyone to pull vulturistic theatrics to mystify this matter for their own political gains. As part of the current consolidation phase, provincial government will
spare no effort in ensuring that the impacts which have accrued to the
resident populations of nodal areas are deepened and maximized and that
the lessons learnt will be applied in the implementation of the
integrated poverty strategy. One of the current initiatives in this regard is to
capacitate and sensitise decision-makers on local government level to
ensure that there is sufficient financial commitment to drinking water
quality management. Given that we are approaching the end of our mandate
term, the Government decided that it should identify a suite of Apex
Priorities on which it must focus in a special way, using these as
catalysts further to accelerate progress towards the achievement of the
objectives the people mandated us to pursue. Early last month when I handed over the Torch of Peace
to Minister Naledi Pandor and reported on the Festive Season Fatal
Crash Report I indicated that our law enforcement plans on the roads
will continue to be heightened to reduce the challenges of road crashes. The adoption by the ANCs 52nd National Conference of our
perspectives on youth development underpinned by the principle of
mainstreaming of youth development and its seamless integration into
all aspects of our Checks will be conducted for driver fitness, vehicle
fitness and moving violation to ensure that non-compliance is brought
down. Road safety education and communication interventions will be
enhanced in support of these special operations. Naturally communication is aimed at ensuring that it
promotes, defend and explain the public image of an organization or an
institution which they are employed or deployed to. Generally, this is
the basic principle and objective of communication -- every institution
need a communication department and strategy for the main reason of
ensuring the above. I think it is important to indicates timorously
that, mine here is to demonstrate the point that there is no difference
between propaganda and communication - however the two need not be
confused with the good and the bad.
2007 Thus the uninterrupted process of fundamental change we
are seeking to describe cannot but assume the nature of, at least, an
unstable equilibrium. The changes we must effect necessarily mean that
continuously the reality we seek to change changes, making it necessary
that we too change the ways in which we act as agents of change. We all [feel] punch drunk at the extraordinary events in Polokwane as
collective witnesses to a truly Shakespearean drama which lay bare the
hopes and dashed dreams of victor and vanquished alike. Politics can be a You are mockering around a political position.… So I'm just saying if you do not take that and say where it’s too difficult and leave it, it will always be too difficult. We activated our community halls. Your institution therefore is of strategic significance
in partnering with government to find common solution that will assist
us to appropriately respond to these challenges. The identified law enforcement interventions are
therefore implemented by all role players during the same period,
thereby giving the effect of co-ordinated effort and better results.
Communication also focuses on the same themes as law enforcement to
reinforce the message in an effort to change the attitude of road
users. The plan is to vigorously embark on law enforcement initiatives
and further enhance the effectiveness of the activities with
communication efforts in support thereof. The added advantage is that
all role players (provinces, metros and municipalities) have agreed to
work in a co-ordinated manner. The social role of railway transport is to provide
communities with access to social services that define the social being
of people in their daily interactions. Ladies and gentlemen, I must stress that in order for
the transport sector HIV/AIDS strategic plan to succeed, there is a
need to identify key areas that will drive our interventions forward. Nadeco believes this is evil and has no moral to it. Quite frankly, aviation has a unique virtue to bring people closer together, promotes economic growth and facilitates trade. The attendant questions that the South Africans ask, perhaps not frontally and in express language, but certainly in their actions are:
President Thabo Mbeki, in the African National Congress online newsletter ANC Today. November 9 2007. With the department’s focus on improving early
childhood development services the commitment is ensuring that all
young children have access to effective, efficient, holistic and
integrated early child development services which address their
cognitive, emotional, social, physical and nutritional needs, and will
maximise the conditions and opportunities for each child to develop. In this regard, deepening the debate on transformation throws up a
challenge to all of us honestly to confront key issues that constitute the
background, the dynamics and characteristics of our public debate as well
as assessing the breadth and inclusiveness of our national dialogue.
At the same time, engaging in deepened national debate affords us an Critically, the key issue of the production,
distribution and consumption patterns of ideas on the national stage is
necessarily compounded by the unique character of our society, which,
shaped by the history of colonialism and apartheid, is marked by
glaring inequalities in the ownership patterns, literacy capital and in
many ways, access to information. At the same time, engaging in deepened national debate
affords us an opportunity to ask obligatory questions that touch on the
ownership, the production and distribution of the means of information
as well as the consumption patterns of ideas encased in the general
rubric we call public debate. The principle of "fair and equal opportunity" enshrined
in Bilateral Air Services Agreements will be applied in cases of
slot-constrained airports with a view of achieving maximum economic
benefits within a pro-competitive environment. It will therefore be necessary for the taxi industry to ensure compliance with the necessary basic requirements. South Africa is committed to the involvement of youth in
all aspects of environmental and development, as stated in Principle 4
(q), Chapter 1, Section 2 of the National Environmental Management Act
(Act 107 of 1998), which states: "The vital role of women and youth in
environmental management and development must be recognised and their
full participation therein must be promoted." The Project is intended to create conducive working
environment that should be custom-made to enable it to achieve its
mandate and service delivery objectives. The new building will not only
enable integration of internal processes through its design but the
interaction between business processes, people management processes,
technology, systems, structure, the work environment and the greater
culture and the philosophy of the Department. When I was trying to reflect on what to say today, I
naturally found myself thinking about what the Southern African
Development Community (SADC) region has done to make the work of Search
and Rescue organisations better and more successful. But it also dawned
on me that the concept of establishing synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
systems on a regional basis is not new but was in fact conceived as
early as 1958 when the Convention on the High Seas was adopted. South African National Parks (SANParks) is currently
undertaking planning processes which will inform the realization of the
proposed Garden Route National Park (GRNP)…. The function of
managing the indigenous forests under the Forest Act (84 of 1998) is
currently delegated to SANParks with a vision to change this status to
an assignment so that the management responsibilities are fully
transferred to SANParks. By a special privilege, some still swear, that, when the
mortal mists of birth were gathering fast and the pavilions of life
were opening up their shadowy curtains, they saw a dove, rising upon
wings to heaven from Nkantolo, the day Oliver Tambo was born. How was
it possible; that a shepherd, peasant man! could possess such
intellect, quick as God's lightning and true as God's solitudes. In the
evolution of the Congress Movement, OR, was never one to be seduced
into treacherous conclusions; using the terror of his power to extol
confessions from the frailty of hope or sitting in his conceit on the
summit of social wisdom. Parliaments Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs will
tomorrow (Tuesday) visit the refugee centre at Cape Town harbour. The
surprise visit comes after media reports that asylum seekers have to
wait long queues [sic] at the centre for the process of applications. It is an honour for me to address this symbolic occasion
as part of our journey to transform the transport sector in South
Africa. In particular, we have made a lasting decision that the
transformation of the sector will not be complete without an absolute
overhaul of our public transport system. We have therefore undertaken a
huge task to review our public transport system… We will continue to deliver on the key milestones in the delivery of key transport infrastructure…. A process of bringing the Eastern Cape province on board in this regard has been completed…. It is important in this gathering to reflect on the path
traversed and the challenges still facing us, so that in today’s
deliberations and discussions we are able to focus on some of the
critical areas on which you have mandated us and the Council to focus.
Among these key areas is municipal transformation and development. On
your behalf, we have consistently promised that we will stabilise the
administration and streamline the Municipality into an institution
geared for efficient, effective and quality service delivery. We are
therefore happy to report that the Municipality has achieved these key
deliverables. At the same time, we have seen instances where the
victorious revolution loses some of its adherents in the aftermath of
victory, because these, among other things, decide that they have been
denied the possibility to determine the process and content of
post-revolutionary transformation, despite the contribution they
believe they had made to ensure the victory of the revolution. The best form of rehabilitating prisoners is to ensure
that we change the entirety of social and productive relations.
Importantly, the only way to domesticate a lion is not to keep it in
Kruger National Park, but gradually into the Zoo and then in a
household. To keep on sending a lion packing into the jungle each time
it lions someone and then bring it back into society, hoping that it
learned its ways is only to expect prisoners. So, in as much as society
makes prisons, prisons may turn innocent puppies into lions that are
ready to devour when unleashed. Our approach for the Gautrain project has been very
holistic so that we could maximise its benefits through the promotion
of inter-modal integration and priority corridors in accordance with
the Rail plan. The role of Gautrain must therefore be seen with the
context of interlinking the various modes and nodes within the Gauteng
area. In compliance with the Tobacco Products Act and other
relevant legislation and regulations thereto: Smoking in offices and
public places within Parliamentary buildings is prohibited. I am satisfied that all class A accountable items in
respect of quantity and condition are adequate for my staff compliment
and that I have addressed deficiencies as when [sic] they have occurred
and within budgetary restraint. We cannot afford a situation where there are few news to so few people. The country has the right to know the true facts. In the coming period, the SDP will be exploring the
parallels between ubuntu and social democracy and finding ways in which
the ideology can be contextualised to deal with the specific challenges
facing South Africa. But, there is no precedence anywhere in the history of
the world where the democratic process took the thirteen years of our
dispensation to arrive at a point, in just thirteen years, where it
would be said all was in place and the democratic process had been
finalised for all to enjoy, on an equal footing, the fruits of that
dispensation. We in South Africa have understood that the process of
consolidating our democracy was going to require a lot of resources and
time as well as commitment firstly to defend the gains made when the
democratic breakthrough happened and to consolidate the process going
forward. The NPP will promote meaningful democracy as long as the
boundaries and limitations are known by all citizens and those living
on our soil. Constraints encountered during the construction phase, gave rise to
several engineering innovations. This included the use of “trenchless”
technology using pipe jacking, strategically designed manhole structures During the five days, the participating Heads of
Correctional Services will review the impact of a mechanism created to
engage in productive liaison to the alignment of multi-lateral
corrections forum with SADC and the African Union. In addition, the
meeting will also review the successes and challenges of the platforms
and structures created in supporting initiatives that have already been
started to promote unity among the African people. As much as we must be resolute in our actions, so must
we accept the reality of a complex and dialectical process through
which we come to identify the content of our dynamic social reality,
and therefore the setting to which we must respond. As the citizens of this country we depend on the police so that we can sleep at night as well as during the day. And because, for us, every development of significance around us is without precedent, we search constantly and continuously for levels of understanding of our reality and forms of action to respond to this actuality, which would assure us that we are masters, or mistresses, of our destiny. For this reason, and for those among us who see themselves as agents of progressive change, complete and accurate knowledge, representing accurate understanding of objective reality, liberated from prejudice, false assumptions and propaganda, becomes an imperative and inalienable condition for the untrammelled but responsible exercise of the hard-won right to self-determination. We have the possibility and latitude and the necessity to speak thus because we live during our own age of revolution. Exactly because it is such an age, all of us face the demand to understand objective reality accurately and objectively, to enable the revolution to decide on the correct strategy, tactics and operations. ... An important part of this difficulty arises from the
fact, which we have consistently sought to emphasise, that this
balanced and integrated approach can only be realised if we get our
historically and still divided society to "sing from the same hymn
sheet" about the mere, but critically important, reality of the
ineluctable organic interdependence between genuine national
reconciliation and fundamental social transformation. In as much as we have given a greater quantum of grant
funding towards human settlement development, revisions to the minimum
requirements for housing provision has seen the introduction of the
40m2 unit with improved quality. This therefore means that the
additional funding cannot deliver additional sites and houses but a
higher level of comfort to beneficiaries of houses. In delivering his budget speech, MEC for Local
Government and Housing explained his ‘DRIE VOET’ approach
which rests on three pillars, namely Accelerated Service delivery and
Quality Settlements; Capacity Building and Public Participation; and
Cooperative Governance and Accountability. “In everything we do,
this ‘DRIE VOET’ is non-negotiable. When everything else
fails, these three must stand out. ‘DRIE VOET’ is about
guided fire and uninterrupted linkages. It’s about Risk taking
and Creativity.”
Denver Webb, head of the Eastern Cape’s department of social development, explaining what the department intends to do. From the department’s Social Development Bulletin, published as a supplement to the Daily Dispatch, July 9 2007. I believe that those of us who serve in this House as
the democratically elected peoples’ tribunes, have a
responsibility to repudiate all falsehoods propagated to provoke
confrontation among our people, that are invented to impose on us
non-existent differences that are impossible to irreconcilable, and
that are designed to abort the birth of the new, by imprisoning our
minds within an inert world of thought, that has no capacity to break
out of an age of darkness that had required floods of human blood to
destroy. Public Service Week [is] an integral part of an ongoing
revitalisation of the Batho Pele People first campaign, which is aimed
at building a greater sense of morale and pride in public servant's
endeavours to translate the people's contract into reality through the
provision of quality services. On the mitigation side, DEAT will also initiate a process that will, over
the next few years, match our efforts on the mitigation scenario building
process. This will culminate in a National Adaptation Plan. Our basic belief is that political power as through our
ascendancy to government must be exercised for managing government and
ensure it fulfills the mandate of our movement because we would
disagree with those who would suggest we have arrived at our historic
ideals. Three years ago, in 2004, we mapped out a conceptual framework for the transformation of the state in the Western Cape under the rubric of “Modern African Governance”. This framework posited six ideas that underpin a developmental state:
Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool in a speech to his legislature. May 22 2007. Given that nations compete globally more effectively at the sub-national
level, whether Province/State, Metropolitan, District or Municipal - we
need to discuss what constitutes this substantial level, how do they
interrelate, and how do their collective efforts ensure that “on the
ground” relevance informs the national policy efforts. The AVL [automated vehicle location] will provide SAPS
dispatching officials with location and positioning updates that are
transmitted in real time to geo-spatial mapping facilities so that more
informed decisions can be made about deployments to scenes of crime. Given where he comes from, and where his father
deliberately chose to play his rugby, on the dusty, pot-holed fields of
the Eastern Cape's townships, Luke comes from a historically
disadvantaged community. Jake White shouldn't be looking at Watson as a
white player. We must create an honest mirror for the ANC, without pulling any punches in dissecting ourselves. The primary mission of the ANC remains the liberation of
the black people in general and the African people in particular, who
are therefore defined as all the classes and strata that stand
objectively to gain from the Accordingly, wherever we may be on May Day, we should
both celebrate the advances we have made, and chart the way forward
with regard to the acceleration of our advance towards the achievement
of the goal of a better life for all…. Urgent action and drastic steps must be taken to restore schools as safe
places for conducive learning, and protect both learner’s and educator’s. The ANC Youth League convened a Policy Dialogue, aimed
at consolidating a perspective to inform its engagement with the
documents prepared for ANC Policy Conference to be held in June 2007. Pro-active measures to regulate the possible outbreak of fires in Cape
Town's informal housing areas are being put in place. From the earliest memory about human activity, conflicts
have become the footprints of history to the shame of those who have
made claim to human civilisation overtime. In looking back, we find
that wars have been the measure of periodical epochs, with the end of
each battle promising a new fresh start and a new hope for a people
brutalised by the foregoing barbarism that puts us in the same brackets
as the rest of our kin in the animal kingdom. And then the big clock will gong for breakfast, with
everyone lining up for the communist breakfast buffet. Everything
dished out for all to share. They shared Bacon and eggs from the
communal farm, produced by those who worked in the farm. They shared
hot toasted healthy bread with butter from the Engels Bakery (named
after its good administrator and financial manager), provided for free.
They shared orange and apple juice like equal human beings. The
Communist Mansion, with Chris Hani as part of it will rejoice at the
humble provisions in the massive Dining Hall, which has a big banner
written from ‘each according to his ability to each according to
his needs.’ In the communist mansion, no one owns another. When
they work-they all work, and when they play golf-they all play golf. The eNaTIS utilises state-of-the-art technology that
will be compatible with a variety of anticipated systems enhancements.
For example, the Department wants to improve the system to cater for
enhanced law enforcement capabilities, specialised transactions
designed to limit physical visits by members of the public to traffic
departments, i.e transactions done over the internet and by the use of
automated teller machines (ATMs). The system will also allow for the
introduction of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic
Offences (AARTO) system and online registration of vehicles by
financial institutions. The system will also provide a new module that
will manage driving licence, and learner’s licence bookings on an
online real-time basis. As a strategic resource for the Road
Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) and Road Traffic Infringement
Agencies (RTIAs) the eNaTIS will ensure that all infringements are
centralised within the eNaTIS data base to provide improved service
with regard to the payment of traffic fines, etc. The web-based
capability of the eNaTIS will ensure that the key elements of Batho
Pele (people first) are addressed. As the Department and a government we view allegations
of this nature in an exceptionally serious light in particular when the
alleged perpetrator concerned is required to uphold the rule of law and
the values of our Constitution. The YCL believes that the SACP PEC has stooped too low
and showed some factionalist tendencies and childishness, which are not
worth responding to. However, because the SACP PEC has misled the
public about vital issues of the organisation, we are left with no
choice but to clarify them. Comrades we must fight for all elements of the trading
system to take into account core labour standards from the real and
consistent improvements on labour rights must be a cornerstone of
tackling poverty and growing inequality worldwide and thus trading
agreements must fully incorporate labour standards as the basis of a
strong social pillar in ensuring equality in trade so that it works for
workers in both developing and developed countries. AS WE CELEBRATED HUMAN RIGHTS DAY ON THE 21ST MARCH
2007, once again we reminded ourselves of the fact that despite the
conflict we may have had, our human kinship advocates for peace and
harmony amongst all our people irrespective of race, gender or class,
and that all our differences can best be dealt with within the context
of the freedoms afforded to all of us by our democratic dispensation.
One of the challenges facing our country today, is whether or not the
values we fought for as a people, and which values are enshrined in our
constitution and institutional frameworks, receive the required support
by all our people, and therefore whether or not beyond political
affiliations we have a common mind on what kind of South Africa we wish
to build. We may for instance think that the political differences we
have as reflected in the arenas of public discourse are mere
reflections of a democratic order, when in fact they reflect deep
rooted lack of consensus on the common agenda we must take as a nation,
and therefore explains the difficulties and resistances we are as yet
to confront in effecting change. In our articulation of the challenges
posed by global warming, last week we spoke of the centrality of a
global consensus as primary basis to ensure that the scourge is
combated fully. In that articulation, we accordingly cited the absence
of a global consensus as the main enemy not only to global warming but
to the attainment of various development goals, such as the Millennium
Development Goals. It could be argued that the main reason why we may
not achieve a number of goals on the national front, it is because we
do not have consensus on what must become the national development
agenda, and where we do, we spend much time debating what must
constitute priorities, informed by race, gender and class interests,
instead of looking beyond our narrow group interests and provide a
holistic approach. Thus it sought to make the unequivocal statement that,
as a movement, we must do everything necessary and possible to ensure
that the women of our country fully participate in defining what our
country does in this regard, benefit from all programmes adopted to
eradicate poverty, help to direct the implementation of these
programmes, and participate in monitoring the implementation of these
programmes. Each positive step towards a just peace will create the
conditions for the next positive step towards a just peace, until the
process towards a just and permanent peace develops an organic logic
and momentum that convinces all antagonists that to resort to violence
is to turn the guns against the irreversible prospect of peace and
security for all. One does not reveal where a nuclear power plant is to be
built because we still have to acquire the land, although we might have
already done that. Provincial Affairs and Local Government Minister Sydney
Mufamadi noted the impact made by the legislative role of the NCOP
since its inception. He made mention of the Intergovernmental Relations
Framework Act which, he said, “enjoins all the spheres to
establish the instrumentalities for inter-sphere as well as
intra-sphere coordination”. According to Mr Mahlangu there were certain objectives
which guided the organizing of the summit, amongst them the
following… To determine whether current legislative
provisions adequately articulate the role played by all relevant
structures in intergovernmental relations. However, inequality around the world has meant that
while we suffer common concerns such as global warming and the need to
rid of our world of the malice of conflicts and terrorism, however the
quality of life differs markedly from one country to another in as much
as there are general inequalities within each and every country in the
world. We abide by the fact that the judiciary must be
independent and its judgments must be beyond reproach or public
ridicule and this cannot be when clearly there is failure on the part
of the judiciary to ensure fairness and justice.
2006 There is a growing body of literature on the shape of
the challenges and regulatory questions that NGN [next-generation
network] regulation poses. Central to this is understanding the
technical changes and issues that will inform the regulatory challenges
as well as reframing the debate on regulation in an IP network and
services framework; the regulatory issues are not as much about policy
direction but more about ensuring that policy and regulation remove
inhibiting factors affecting IP networks and services from a regulatory
point of view. The timeframes we set ourselves earlier, relating to the
FTA and the CU, were based on our estimation of the time it would take
us, based on perceived objective reality, to achieve these outcomes. It
is only logical that our experience, or dynamic objective reality
mediated by practice, will serve as our teacher, telling us whether the
circumstances necessitate any changes in our target dates. It is clear that we have major tasks ahead of us, to
elaborate and implement the organically related measures that will
enable us to achieve the critically important, balanced and equitable
regional integration that is a fundamental condition for… the
creation of the possibility for us to make our necessary contribution
as a region to the vitally important project of African integration and
unity. Necessarily, therefore, the forces that shared an
interest in, and therefore combined to defeat white minority rule,
would therefore continue to share an interest and seek to combine to
use their common victory to confront the legacy of racism that had
brought them together as freedom fighters. Among our critical challenges are the reduction and
eradication of poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment, addressing
race and gender inequality in the distribution of opportunity, income
and wealth, and creating the caring and equitable society that will
guarantee the dignity of all our people, including children, the youth,
women and people with disabilities, within the context of a truly
democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous society. During the course of its evolution, our movement came
clearly to define the emancipation of women as an inherent, inalienable
and defining feature of our struggle for national liberation. Thus we
arrived at the firm determination that our freedom could never be
complete unless it involves the emancipation of the women of our
country. Perhaps more than anybody else, our movement must strive
fully to understand the great advance represented by today's reality,
that gender equality and the emancipation of women constitute
fundamental national objectives that have also become a constitutional
imperative. We gather here knowing that due to policies that our
government has adopted and is implementing our country is experiencing
the economy’s longest period of expansion and growth, enabling us
to respond to the increasing urbanisation and industrialisation which
characterises our province as having three features that are
undeveloped, underdeveloped as well as developed. The people themselves must, and will, make the loud and
clear statement that what will decide the question whether anyone in
our movement, government and society is a genuine actor for progressive
change or not, is whether, in their national, provincial or localised
actions, their deeds honestly convey the message, that rather than
personal or partisan interests - they truly serve the people of South
Africa and Africa! The Department has the strengths that are listed below,
which it will capitalize on in pursuing its mandate and strategic
objectives to optimise its performance [which include a
“progressive skills development framework”]. Similarly, public transport is a strategic driver of
service delivery and represents a fundamental and measurable benchmark
for our commitment to improve the lives of our people. The taxi
recapitalisation project is a crucial component of this work and
represents a strategic thrust in our drive towards a seamlessly
integrated public transport system that responds to the country’s
developmental agenda…. As part of fine-tuning its approach to service delivery,
the Department has adopted a multi-pronged approach which combines the
introduction of flagship projects at strategic points and a more
focused targeting in the line function delivery activities. For example, in this regard, we can say that since our
liberation in 1994… we have also shown that it is possible to
manage the divide between a developed ("1st") world and an
underdeveloped ("3rd") world, to achieve resource transfers from the
1st to the 3rd world, without destroying the capacity of the 1st to
produce the necessary resources to develop the 3rd, focused on the
transformation of the latter to catch up with the former…
2005 The year under review has seen numerous strides being
taken to ensure that the Department in the execution of its mandate is
able to align its programmes to the realization of the imperatives
outlined in the Provincial Growth and Development Strategy.
2002 We have begun operating in terms of the required
planning framework and have tabled our second strategic planning
document, while seeking to optimise allocation of public resources
through co-operative governance and intergovernmental relations.
1998 We are interested that our country responds to the call
to rally to a New Patriotism, as a result of which we can all agree to
a common national agenda, which would include… an all-embracing
effort to build a sense of common nationhood and a shared destiny, as a
result of which we can entrench into the minds of all our people the
understanding that however varied their skin complexions, cultures and
life conditions, the success of each nevertheless depends on the effort
the other will make to turn into reality the precept that each is his
or her brother's or sister's keeper….
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