📰 06/07/2022
🏛 Parliament must reconvene urgently
It is inconceivable that Parliament is shut during this time of national crisis. It should be meeting around the clock to find solutions to the multiple crises hitting our nation, from Stage 6 load-shedding, the fuel price crisis and the Phala Phala scandal, to unemployment.
Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2022/07/parliament-must-reconvene-urgently
⚡️ DA’s response to the electricity crisis
The DA has put a plan on the table that charts South Africa’s quickest route out of the crisis and to reliable, cheaper, cleaner electricity.
Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2022/07/das-response-to-the-electricity-crisis
💡 Stage 6 loadshedding for South Africans while Eskom sells electricity to neighbours
Whilst South Africa has been in its darkest period these past few years, Eskom has continued selling and supplying neighbouring countries with electricity – electricity which could have reduced stages of loadshedding for ordinary South Africans if that supply was kept here.
Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2022/07/stage-6-loadshedding-for-south-africans-while-eskom-sells-electricity-to-neighbours
💪 14 months later, NDZ warms to the idea of learning from well-managed DA municipalities
Exactly a year and two months since making the call, the DA is elated that Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has come out in support of the DA’s initiative for a mini summit where the City of Cape Town would share municipal governance best practices with other struggling metros across the country.
Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2022/07/14-months-later-ndz-warms-to-the-idea-of-learning-from-well-managed-da-municipalities
✈️ Gordhan perpetuates the SAA secrecy
Once again Pravin Gordhan, the Minister of Public Enterprises, has failed his constitutional obligation to provide a reply to a parliamentary question on SAA.
Read more: https://www.da.org.za/2022/07/gordhan-perpetuates-the-saa-secrecy
