DOCSLIB.ORG

Unrevised Hansard

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Unrevised Hansard UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 1 TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 ____ PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ____ The House met at 14:06. The Speaker took the Chair and requested members to observe a moment of silence for prayer or meditation. The SPEAKER: Hon members, shortly before I came to the House I received a letter from the Chief Whip of the Opposition querying whether the processing of the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill complied with the Rules. We will proceed with the business while seeking legal clarity. If there is any problem with the process we will review the matter. Hon Steenhuisen, I am sure you’ll find that in order. The CHIEF WHIP OF THE OPPOSITION: As it pleases you, Madam Speaker. UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 2 The SPEAKER: Thank you very much. NEW MEMBER (Announcement) The SPEAKER: Hon members, I wish to announce that the vacancy which occurred in the National Assembly owing to the resignation of Mr L S Tlhaole had been filled, with effect from 1 November 2017, by the nomination of Mr M Tshwaku. [Applause.] The hon member has made and subscribed the oath in the Office of the Deputy Speaker. I welcome you, hon member. SUSPENSION OF RULE 290(2) (a) (Draft Resolution) The CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY: Speaker, I move the motion as printed in my name on the Order Paper, as follows: UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 3 That the House suspends Rule 290(2) (a), which provides, inter alia, that the debate on the Second Reading of a Bill may not commence before at least three working days have elapsed since the committee’s report was tabled, for the purpose of conducting a Second Reading debate today on the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. The CHIEF WHIP OF THE OPPOSITION: Madam Speaker, it’s usually customary that parties are consulted when the three-day Rule is to be waived. This is not the case in this regard and we would like to register our strongest objection. If we are going to waive the three-day Rule there has to be a consensus of the House and not simple the dictate of a single office. We will be opposing this. The SPEAKER: There is an objection and I think it’s one that is an established practice of this House. The CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY: Hon Speaker, first of all maybe we need to apologise to all the other parties. Ordinarily, we should have consulted through the Chief Whips’ Forum. It was UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 4 an omission on our part. We want to sincerely apologise to all the other parties on this matter. [Applause.] The SPEAKER: I hope the other parties do accept the apologies of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party. Ms H O MKHALIPI: Madam Speaker, we do accept the apology from the Chief Whip of the Majority Party. He is a leader. The SPEAKER: I think that goes for everyone. The objection of the DA will be noted. Agreed to (Democratic Alliance dissenting). PROTECTION, PROMOTION, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS BILL (Decision of Question on Second Reading) There was no debate. UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 5 Question put: That the Bill be read a second time. Division demanded. The House divided. AYES - 190: [TAKE IN FROM MINUTES] NOES - 73: [TAKE IN FROM MINUTES] ABSTAIN - 8: [TAKE IN FROM MINUTES] Question agreed to. Bill accordingly read a second time. (VOTING TAKE IN FROM MINUTES) Question agreed to. Bill accordingly read a second time. DIVISION OF REVENUE AMENDMENT BILL UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 6 (Consideration of Report of Standing Committee on Appropriations) There was no debate. The CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY: Thank you again Speaker. We move that the Report be adopted. Motion agreed to. Report accordingly adopted. DIVISION OF REVENUE AMENDMENT BILL (Second Reading debate) Ms Y N PHOSA: Hon Speaker, hon Ministers and Deputy Ministers, hon members, compatriots and fellow South Africans, centuries of misrule, oppression and the exploitation of our country by successive racist governments have made South Africa play a catch-up game. Apartheid was even more brazen about this UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 7 oppression and suppression of African talent. The Bantu Education Act of 1953 had the most deleterious effect on the ability of our people to use education to extricate themselves from poverty. I know some amongst us do not want us to remind them about these sins which are still reaping their bitter fruits today. Just to make sure that we are singing from the same hymn book, let me remind you of the unfortunate quote from the apartheid architect, Hendrik Verwoerd, when he said: There is no place for the Bantu in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child Mathematics when it cannot use it in practice. It is critically important for us to remind the people of South Africa that our country is still trying to redress the all-round disarray created by hundreds of years of colonialism which disrupted the lives of the indigenous people of our country. The fact that today we talk about inequality, poverty and high rates UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 8 of unemployment is because of the marginalisation and deliberate exclusion of black people in particular from a productive economy. The unemployment rate is highest amongst Africans; poverty is highest amongst Africans; and skills are lowest amongst Africans. The list goes on. Inequality in this country is unsustainable. This inequality will soon lead to instability which will compromise our ability to attract direct foreign investments which are important if we are to go out of this low economic growth trap. It cannot be justified by any argument that in South Africa the top 10% of our population owns 95% of the wealth. Unfortunately, this wealth still follows racial lines. Without us dealing with this injustice, we cannot talk about freedom from apartheid bondage. The deracialisation of our economy and making it inclusive in terms of race, gender, etc is vital for us in the ANC. So for us in the ANC, when we scrutinise and interrogate the Budget, it is with the sole purpose of seeing its ability to correct these man-made catastrophes in the shortest possible time. We do not have the luxury to be armchair critics when we UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 9 are confronted by subdued economic growth. We cannot be bystanders when the resources meant to address education, health, social grants and housing are depressed. However, we welcome the additional resources for the community workers programme and the allocation of budget to the value of R19,8 million in Mpumalanga and Limpopo. This is critical to accelerate progress towards malaria elimination. The proposal to direct 40% of the Education Infrastructure Grant towards the maintenance of schools is highly commended. This is also critical in ensuring a conducive environment for learning. All of us, regardless of colour, race or creed, have a responsibility to come up with realistic solutions. That we will do, irrespective of the pain we must go through. We are a resilient people. The Budget presented by the hon Minister of Finance on 25 October has been hailed as the most transparent and honest analysis of the current economic conditions and future UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 10 forecasts. He took the whole country into confidence and said should we not change course, things may be worse. As an example, he said if we don't arrest indebtedness of our country in 2021- 22, the debt to gross domestic product, GDP, ratio may reach 60%. Its not there yet; it may reach 60%. So it means we have a responsibility to make sure that it does not reach 60%. It is thus extremely disingenuous for some amongst us to pretend that we are there. We are not there yet. He also tried to focus on the to-do list. He did not end there; he continued to share with us the initiatives of government, both on the expenditure and revenue sides. The Minister reiterated that the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, MTBPS, will continue to be pro-poor and developmental. That is why the increase in education, health care and grants is above the inflation rate, on average seven per cent. We also welcome the pro-growth MTBPS. Despite the difficult economic conditions, government will spend over R900 billion in infrastructure in the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, period. I think we need to give the Minister a UNREVISED HANSARD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2017 Page: 11 round of applause for this allocation. [Applause.] This will allow ... [Interjections.] There was applause. This will allow many companies who would otherwise have no work access to government infrastructure programmes ... This will ensure that, despite subdued investments, construction companies and related industries contribute to much-needed growth. The committee calls upon provinces and municipalities to double their efforts to focus on sustainable infrastructure with effective and efficient spending, avoiding leakages at all costs because they undermine growth and the creation of jobs. We are concerned about low levels of private-sector investments. A low business confidence level is cited as one of the reasons. The 14 confidence boosting ... I repeat ..
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 4.5.1 Los Abducidos: El Duro Retorno En Expediente X Se Duda De Si Las
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Diposit Digital de Documents de la UAB 4.5.1 Los abducidos: El duro retorno En Expediente X se duda de si las abducciones son obra de humanos o de extraterrestres por lo menos hasta el momento en que Mulder es abducido al final de la Temporada 7. La duda hace que el encuentro con otras personas que dicen haber sido abducidas siempre tenga relevancia para Mulder, Scully o ambos, como se puede ver con claridad en el caso de Cassandra Spender. Hasta que él mismo es abducido se da la paradójica situación de que quien cree en la posibilidad de la abducción es él mientras que Scully, abducida en la Temporada 2, siempre duda de quién la secuestró, convenciéndose de que los extraterrestres son responsables sólo cuando su compañero desaparece (y no necesariamente en referencia a su propio rapto). En cualquier caso poco importa en el fondo si el abducido ha sido víctima de sus congéneres humanos o de alienígenas porque en todos los casos él o ella cree –con la singular excepción de Scully– que sus raptores no son de este mundo. Como Leslie Jones nos recuerda, las historias de abducción de la vida real que han inspirado este aspecto de Expediente X “expresan una nueva creencia, tal vez un nuevo temor: a través de la experimentación sin emociones realizada por los alienígenas usando cuerpos humanos adquiridos por la fuerza, se demuestra que el hombre pertenece a la naturaleza, mientras que los extraterrestres habitan una especie de supercultura.” (Jones 94).
    [Show full text]
  • The Referendum in FW De Klerk's War of Manoeuvre
    The referendum in F.W. de Klerk’s war of manoeuvre: An historical institutionalist account of the 1992 referendum. Gary Sussman. London School of Economics and Political Science. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Government and International History, 2003 UMI Number: U615725 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U615725 Published by ProQuest LLC 2014. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 T h e s e s . F 35 SS . Library British Library of Political and Economic Science Abstract: This study presents an original effort to explain referendum use through political science institutionalism and contributes to both the comparative referendum and institutionalist literatures, and to the political history of South Africa. Its source materials are numerous archival collections, newspapers and over 40 personal interviews. This study addresses two questions relating to F.W. de Klerk's use of the referendum mechanism in 1992. The first is why he used the mechanism, highlighting its role in the context of the early stages of his quest for a managed transition.
    [Show full text]
  • Should the Randomistas (Continue To) Rule?
    Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule? Martin Ravallion Abstract The rising popularity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in development applications has come with continuing debates on the pros and cons of this approach. The paper revisits the issues. While RCTs have a place in the toolkit for impact evaluation, an unconditional preference for RCTs as the “gold standard” is questionable. The statistical case is unclear on a priori grounds; a stronger ethical defense is often called for; and there is a risk of distorting the evidence-base for informing policymaking. Going forward, pressing knowledge gaps should drive the questions asked and how they are answered, not the methodological preferences of some researchers. The gold standard is the best method for the question at hand. Keywords: Randomized controlled trials, bias, ethics, external validity, ethics, development policy JEL: B23, H43, O22 Working Paper 492 August 2018 www.cgdev.org Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule? Martin Ravallion Department of Economics, Georgetown University François Roubaud encouraged the author to write this paper. For comments the author is grateful to Sarah Baird, Mary Ann Bronson, Caitlin Brown, Kevin Donovan, Markus Goldstein, Miguel Hernan, Emmanuel Jimenez, Madhulika Khanna, Nishtha Kochhar, Andrew Leigh, David McKenzie, Berk Özler, Dina Pomeranz, Lant Pritchett, Milan Thomas, Vinod Thomas, Eva Vivalt, Dominique van de Walle and Andrew Zeitlin. Staff of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation kindly provided an update to their database on published impact evaluations and helped with the author’s questions. Martin Ravallion, 2018. “Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?.” CGD Working Paper 492. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development.
    [Show full text]
  • Imperialism and Exploration in the American Road Movie Andy Wright Pitzer College
    Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Pitzer Senior Theses Pitzer Student Scholarship 2016 Off The Road: Imperialism And Exploration in the American Road Movie Andy Wright Pitzer College Recommended Citation Wright, Andy, "Off The Road: Imperialism And Exploration in the American Road Movie" (2016). Pitzer Senior Theses. Paper 75. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/75 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Pitzer Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pitzer Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wright 1 OFF THE ROAD Imperialism And Exploration In The American Road Movie “Road movies are too cool to address serious socio-political issues. Instead, they express the fury and suffering at the extremities of a civilized life, and give their restless protagonists the false hope of a one-way ticket to nowhere.” –Michael Atkinson, quoted in “The Road Movie Book” (1). “‘Imperialism’ means the practice, the theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory; ‘colonialism’, which is almost always a consequence of imperialism, is the implanting of settlements on distant territory” –Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (9) “I am still a little bit scared of flying, but I am definitely far more scared of all the disgusting trash in between places” -Cy Amundson, This Is Not Happening “This is gonna be exactly like Eurotrip, except it’s not gonna suck” -Kumar Patel, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay Wright 2 Off The Road Abstract: This essay explores the imperialist nature of the American road movie as it is defined by the film’s era of release, specifically through the lens of how road movies abuse the lands that are travelled through.
    [Show full text]
  • EB145 Opt.Pdf
    E EPISCOPAL CHURCHPEOPLE for a FREE SOUTHERN AFRICA 339 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012·2725 C (212) 4n-0066 FAX: (212) 979-1013 S A #145 21 february 1994 _SU_N_D_AY-.::..:20--:FEB:.=:..:;R..:..:U..:..:AR:..:.Y:.....:..:.1994::...::.-_---.". ----'-__THE OBSERVER_ Ten weeks before South Africa's elections, a race war looks increasingly likely, reports Phillip van Niekerk in Johannesburg TOKYO SEXWALE, the Afri­ In S'tanderton, in the Eastern candidate for the premiership of At the meeting in the Pretoria Many leading Inkatha mem­ can National Congress candidate Transvaal, the white town coun­ Natal. There is little doubt that showgrounds three weeks ago, bers have publicly and privately for the office of premier in the cillast Wednesday declared itself Natal will fall to the ANC on 27 when General Constand Viljoen, expressed their dissatisfaction at Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Veree­ part of an independent Boer April, which explains Buthelezi's head ofthe Afrikaner Volksfront, Inkatha's refusal to participate in niging province, returned shaken state, almost provoking a racial determination to wriggle out of was shouted down while advo­ the election, and could break from a tour of the civil war in conflagration which, for all the having to fight the dection.~ cating the route to a volkstaat not away. Angola last Thursday. 'I have violence of recent years, the At the very least, last week's very different to that announced But the real prize in Natal is seen the furure according to the country not yet experienced. concessions removed any trace of by Mandela last week, the im­ Goodwill Zwelithini, the Zulu right wing,' he said, vividly de­ The council's declaration pro­ a legitimate gripe against the new pression was created that the king and Buthelezi's nephew.
    [Show full text]
  • UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Education by Dispossession: Schooling on the New Suburban Frontier Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q28d3pm Author Alexander, Rebecca Anne Publication Date 2012 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Education by Dispossession: Schooling on the New Suburban Frontier by Rebecca Anne Alexander A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Patricia Baquedano-López, Chair Professor Zeus Leonardo Professor Ananya Roy Fall 2012 Education by Dispossession: Schooling on the New Suburban Frontier © 2012 by Rebecca Anne Alexander Abstract Education by Dispossession: Schooling on the New Suburban Frontier by Rebecca Anne Alexander Doctor of Philosophy in Education University of California, Berkeley Professor Patricia Baquedano-López, Chair Both the housing bubble and the subprime meltdown ratcheted up levels of class and racial inequality to levels not seen since the 1930s. In the nation’s increasingly diverse suburbs, this has meant both new forms of interaction and new forms of division. This dissertation looks at these dynamics through the eyes of an often-ignored subject— youth. Through an ethnographic examination of young people’s transition to high school during the subprime crisis, I explore the ways in which a new economic paradigm—one based largely on dispossession—is transforming the educational and cultural lives of both very wealthy and very poor suburban youth. I introduce the framework of “education by dispossession” as a means of linking the current economic paradigm to the ongoing transformation of the educational institutions, ideologies, spaces and practices these youth encounter.
    [Show full text]
  • 16 Officers, 1 Cause Tips Could Save Lives This Summer
    SPORTS Sumter Junior P-15’s earn 1st state crown B1 TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Tips could save lives this summer In the case of Latisha Rem- being left in a vehicle when found unresponsive. Experts offer safety reminders after Sumter bert, whose 1-year-old son temperatures were recorded Officers and other first re- boy died from being left in hot car in 2017 died of apparent hyperther- to be in the mid-90s. sponders attempted to revive mia on July 19, 2017, the last- According to reports from Mekhi before police escorted BY ADRIENNE SARVIS seat when traveling with ing effects will lead to crimi- 2017, Rembert reportedly left an ambulance to Palmetto [email protected] small children, vulnerable nal court. her son, Mekhi Rembert, in Health Tuomey. The police adults and animals during the Sumter Police Department the vehicle while at a loca- department later reported While there are countless summer, knowing the lasting charged Rembert with homi- tion in the county before Mekhi did not survive. tips encouraging parents to effects go past the loss of life cide by child abuse and ne- driving to Swan Lake-Iris remember to check the back could be the best reminder. glect after her child died from Gardens, where he was SEE SAFETY, PAGE A8 CAMPAIGN BY THE 16 officers, NUMBERS 111 tickets issued on 1 cause U.S. 378 on Saturday $22,396 in fines 35 warning tickets issued 2 stolen firearms recovered 10 arrest warrants served 4 arrests made 9 driving under suspension tickets 1 PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies walk up to the site of a wreck Saturday morning before fire and EMS personnel arrived.
    [Show full text]
  • Cómo Citar El Artículo Número Completo Más Información Del
    Anagramas -Rumbos y sentidos de la comunicación- ISSN: 1692-2522 Sello Editorial - Universidad de Medellín Nitrihual-Valdebenito, Luis; Fierro-Bustos, Juan Manuel; Reyes-Velásquez, Carlos; Henríquez-Morales, Francisco Conspiración y nuda vida ¿The X-Files, I want to believe: mundo posible o mundo presente?* Anagramas -Rumbos y sentidos de la comunicación-, vol. 16, núm. 31, 2017, Septiembre-Diciembre, pp. 91-112 Sello Editorial - Universidad de Medellín DOI: https://doi.org/10.22395/angr.v16n31a3 Disponible en: https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=491555087004 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto Universidad de Medellín Conspiración y nuda vida ¿The X-Files, I want to believe: mundo posible o mundo presente?* Luis Nitrihual Valdebenito** Juan Manuel Fierro Bustos*** Carlos Reyes Velásquez**** Francisco Henríquez Morales***** Recibido: 2017-04-22 Enviado a pares: 2017-05-25 Aprobado por pares: 2017-07-18 Aceptado: 2017-07-25 DOI: 10.22395/angr.v16n31a3 Resumen El presente artículo problematiza, en general, la conspiración como una estructura política y narrativa fundamental de la Modernidad. A través de un análisis fílmico de la serie The X-Files, I want to believe, planteamos como objetivo revelar como el tópico de la conspiración, en un nivel superficial, es un articulador de la trama de la serie, pero en un nivel profundo y amplio entendemos la conspiración como una estrategia articuladora de la vida moderna y, en este marco, del control biopolítico.
    [Show full text]
  • Aprohibited Persons@@@
    AAAPROHIBITED PERSONS@@@ Abuse of Undocumented Migrants, Asylum-Seekers, and Refugees in South Africa Human Rights Watch New York AAA Washington AAA London AAA Brussels Copyright 8 March 1998 by Human Rights Watch All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 1-56432-181-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-84835 Addresses for Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10118-3299 Tel: (212) 290-4700, Fax: (212) 736-1300, E-mail: [email protected] 1522 K Street, N.W., #910, Washington, DC 20005-1202 Tel: (202) 371-6592, Fax: (202) 371-0124, E-mail: [email protected] 33 Islington High Street, N1 9LH London, UK Tel: (171) 713-1995, Fax: (171) 713-1800, E-mail: [email protected] 15 Rue Van Campenhout, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Tel: (2) 732-2009, Fax: (2) 732-0471, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site Address: http://www.hrw.org Listserv address: To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to [email protected] with Asubscribe hrw-news@ in the body of the message (leave the subject line blank). Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.
    [Show full text]
  • Sex Crimes Rampant in SANDF
    AFRICA’S BEST READ November 22 to 28 2019 Vol 35 No 47 @mailandguardian mg.co.za Burna Boy Sex crimes rampant in SANDF vs AKA: African O Female soldiers forced to work with abusers unity up in OMinister lashes generals, starts own inquiry 4 & 5 flames 20 & 21 Slave labour at ‘Beautiful City’ Dozens of under-age Cyril plans workers locked inside Jo’burg factory Page 23 reshuffle Photo: Paul Botes to assert Cults and lies in the church of refugees Page 6 control Developing threats: Sisulu in firing line as new alliances take shape Page 3 Photo: David Harrison 2 Mail & Guardian November 22 to 28 2019 IN BRIEF Capture of State Capturers Oluwaseun ppm Former State Security NUMBERS OF THE WEEK 412.08412 08 The number of women that feature on the Time 100 Ayodeji As of September 16 this is the level of carbon Minister Bongani Osowobi dioxide in the atmosphere. A safe number Bongo appeared Next 2019 list of influential young people. The maga- is 350 while 450 is catastrophic briefly in the Cape zine’s list includes Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi (28) from Nigeria, Town Magistrate’s Data source: NASA who was given a shout-out on Twitter by former president court on Thursday Barack Obama, who said he was proud of her and her work in where he is facing 13 organising young people in Nigeria charges of corruption. States drop the Bongo’s arrest is related to his alleged to help end sexual violence attempt to bribe state advocate Ntuthuzelo catch on climate Vanara, who at the time was involved in Parliament’s investigation into state capture.
    [Show full text]
  • Party Politics Jeopardised the Credibility of the Women's National
    Party politics jeopardised the credibility of the Women’s National Coalition Party politics jeopardised the credibility of the Women’s National Coalition for Afrikaner women in the organisation Loraine Maritz History Department University of Stellenbosch [email protected] Samevatting Die Women’s National Coalition (WNC) is in 1992 amptelik gestig en was ‘n inisiatief van die African National Congress Women’s League. Die doelwitte van die WNC was om inligting oor vroue se behoeftes en aspirasies in te samel en dit in ‘n Vrouehandves saam te vat wat uiteindelik ‘n integrale deel van die nuwe Grondwet van Suid-Afrika sou word. Vanweë talle praktiese probleme, asook haar gebrek aan politieke vernuf, het die Afrikanervrou moeilik by die WNC aangepas. Daarby het die vyandigheid van swart vroue wat die vergaderings van die WNC domineer het, verder die Afrikanervrou se betrokkenheid in die wiele gery. In hierdie artikel val die soeklig op hoe die politieke gebeure tydens die onderhandelings vir ’n nuwe demokratiese bestel die WNC en Afrikanervroue beïnvloed het. Keywords: Women’s National Coalition; Afrikaner women; Afrikaner Women’s organisations; Women’s Charter; Political smokescreen; ANCWL. Introduction When public negotiations for a new democratic dispensation in South Africa started in 1990, a new era began in which numerous human rights issues came to the fore. Women also used this opportunity to put women’s issues and gender relations on the national agenda in an attempt to redress the injustices of the past. Black women’s political consciousness developed over many decades. But in the 1980s during the state of emergency and increased political action, they became aware of their suppression as women and realised that the liberation • 99 New Contree, No.
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings of the Second Ministerial Meeting on International Food Prices
    Proceedings of the Second Ministerial Meeting on International Food Prices FAO Headquarters Rome 7 October 2013 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations PROCEEDINGS OF THE Second Ministerial Meeting on International Food Prices FAO Headquarters Rome 7 October 2013 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome 2013 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. The views expressed in this information product are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of FAO. ISBN 978-92-5-108045-0 (print) E-ISBN 978-92-5-108046-7 (PDF) © FAO, 2013 FAO encourages the use, reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product. Except where otherwise indicated, material may be copied, downloaded and printed for private study, research and teaching purposes, or for use in non-commercial products or services, provided that appropriate acknowledgement of FAO as the source and copyright holder is given and that FAO’s endorsement of users’ views, products or services is not implied in any way.
    [Show full text]