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Hansard 23 02 2018 Revised and Edited.Pdf(Link Is External) 1 FRIDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2018 PROCEEDINGS OF THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT The sign † indicates the original language and [ ] directly thereafter indicates a translation. The House met at 10:00 The Deputy Speaker took the Chair and read the prayer. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Before we start with the formal proceedings may I take the opportunity to welcome our guests on the gallery and just remind them that they are welcome here but not to take part in the proceedings on the floor. I also want to extend a special welcome to the visiting group of students and their professors from the Fachhochschule Kiel in Germany, most welcome with us. [Applause.] I see the Chief Whip. (Notice of Motion) Mr M G E WILEY: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I move the motion on the 2 Order Paper in my name: That in terms of section 6(3)(b) of the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998, (Act 20 of 1998) the upper limits of the salary and allowances of the Premier as proclaimed by the Pre sident of the Republic of South Africa by Proclamation No 43, 2017, published in Government Gazette 41313 of 8 December 2017, be determined as the salary and allowances of the Premier of the Western Cape with effect from 1 April 2017. (Notice of Motion) Mr M G E WILEY: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I move the motion on the Order Paper in my name: That notwithstanding the provisions of Rule 149 (3) the following bills be revived and consideration thereof be resumed from the stage reached with them in the previous session. (1) Western Cape Housing Development Amendment Bill [B2 –2017]. (2) Western Cape Provincial Road Traffic Administration Amendment Bill [B3–2017]. and with the rider for the second motion, Mr Deputy Speaker, and that is I am aware that the Standing Committees dealing with the said bills have already 3 met this year to deliberate on them. The Committees will ratify these deliberations in their final reports on these bills. I so move. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you. Just clarity on that o ne. I put the first motion, no objection? Agreed to. The second one, no objection? Agreed to as well. We then move on to the Orders of the Day. The Secretary will read the Order. ORDER OF THE DAY The SECRETARY: Debate on the Premier’s State of the Pro vince Address. Debate on the Premier’s State of the Province Address The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I see the Leader of the Opposition, the hon member Magaxa. [Applause.] Mr K E MAGAXA: Mr Deputy Speaker, Madam Premier, and protocol observed. Before I begin, I would like to welcome the 54th ANC Conference outcomes and the consequent election of comrade Cyril Ramaphosa as the President of the Republic of South Africa. [Applause.] An HON MEMBER: Hear-hear! 4 Mr K E MAGAXA: His election has brought a new era of hope and change for all South Africans young and old, black and white. [Interjection.] †Mnr Q R DYANTYI: Gooi kole, gooi kole, vreet hulle. [Mr Q R DYANTYI: Throw coals, throw coals, chew them.] Mr K E MAGAXA: We appreciate the sense of renewal the Presiden t’s SONA’s speech has brought to the country. He promised to restore public confidence in the government; commitment to ethical behaviour and leadership; a new national minimum wage to improve the lives of more than six million South Africans; improvement to government support for the poor and unemployed and land restitution, including, if necessary, expropriation of land without compensation. [Interjections.] Premier, we had to write to you to convince you that the SONA should first take place to open the Parliamentary year which would set the tone for the year, believing it would be against the principles of co -operative governance for any province to proceed with a State of the Province Address before the President has delivered the State of the Nation Address. We were disappointed in your letter dated 15 February where you stated that you received no legal arguments... [Interjection.] Mr D JOSEPH: You are wasting time! Mr K E MAGAXA: ...why the State of the Province Address should not take 5 place before SONA... [Interjection.] The MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: That is history. Mr K E MAGAXA: ...and that the Western Cape government was not consulted regarding the postponement of SONA whereas the DA party requested SONA be postponed. Your actions once again prove that you do not want to be part of nation building and you continue to run the province like an island that is not part of South Africa. [Interjections.] No wonder you have been suspended from all of your party’s decision -making structures. You have once again tweeted about water colonialism and had to be threatened about being charged again for tweeting positively about the legacy of colonialism. [Interjections.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! [Interjections.] Mr K E MAGAXA: It will be the second time in a year that you will be investigated ... [Interjections.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, order! Mr Magaxa. Ms T M DIJANA: This is not your House... [Interjection.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! I am speaking to both sides of th e House now but specifically the DA. There are too many interjections at the 6 same time. Select your interjections more selectively. Be more selective. Hon member Magaxa, you may continue. Mr K E MAGAXA: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. It will be the second time in a year that you will be investigated for violating the DA’s social media policy, breaching your social media agreement with the party and bringing the party into disrepute. Mr D JOSEPH: It has nothing to do with the ANC. Mr K E MAGAXA: You represent the old racist apartheid backward times which cannot coincide in this new dawn the country is set upon. [Interjections.] Ms B A SCHÄFER: What are you talking about? Mr K E MAGAXA: Your behaviour borders towards someone... The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! Mr K E MAGAXA: ...somebody from a serious infantile disorder. [Interjection.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! Minister Fritz, a question? 7 The MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: I am at pains to try and discover what the hell is he responding to that, for yesterday’s speech? [Interjections.] It has nothing to do with yesterday’s speech. [Interjections.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: It is irrelevant. [Interjections.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order please. The MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: This is coming to absolute nonsense here. [Interjections.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order Minister Fritz, I have listened to the... [Interjections.] Order! I have listened to the point of order. This is a wide political debate. I will clearly look at the contents. [Interjections.] Please continue. [Interjections.] Mr K E MAGAXA: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Your behaviour borders towards someone suffering from a serious infantile disorder and you are being dangerous to yourself and your own party. Premier Zille, in your 2017 State of the Province Address you indicated ... [Interjection.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order member! Hon member Mackenzie? 8 Mr R D MACKENZIE: Hon Mr Deputy Speaker, I just want to get your guidance. Is it okay for the hon member to say, one - that the Premier represents the old apartheid order and secondly he said that she suffers from serious infantile disorder. [Interjections.] The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! [Interjections.] Order! Mr R D MACKENZIE: She suffers from serious infantile disorder. Is that parliamentary? The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! I cannot hear the point of order. Please repeat your point of order? Mr R D MACKENZIE: The hon member Magaxa said that the Premier represents the old apartheid order... [Interjection.] Ms S W DAVIDS: So what? Mr R D MACKENZIE: ...and secondly she suffers from serious infantile disorder. Is that parliamentary? The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am not sure what the first one was about but the second one I will reserve my view on that one. Please continue. [Interjections.] 9 Mr K E MAGAXA: Madam Premier, in your 2017 State of the Province Address you indicated that it could cost a minimum capital amount of R15 billion for a desalination plant for Cape Town with opera tional costs potentially running between R350 million and R1 billion per year, which will translate into very expensive water. This R15 billion figure is very concerning since the costs of desalination plants across the Peninsula at Koeberg, Cape Town Harbour and Harmony Park, which could jointly produce 180 million litres per day have been calculated at R1.3 billion by the Department of Water and Sanitation’s Technical Team. The City of Cape Town’s Water Resilience Plan estimates that desalination plants at Cape Town Harbour, Strandfontein and Monwabisi together with water augmentation will jointly produce 200 million litres of water per day at a cost of R3.3 billion. [Interjections.] An HON MEMBER: R6 billion. [Interjections.] Mr K E MAGAXA: Premier, your desalination costs have been inflated to provide big business for your election campaign funders. [Interjections.] Mr Q R DYANTYI: It is hurting. Mr K E MAGAXA: Your own former DA Steering Committee Chairperson has blown the whistle on your corruption. According to Rodney Lentit, the DA turned against De Lille because she did not want to sign two contracts for 10 desalination plants. Lentit claims these contracts amounted to R834 million and R6 billion, respectively. The DA stands to make R600 milli on in kickbacks from these Israeli DA funders for their 2019 election campaign, which is extreme corruption. The Democratic Alliance has manufactured this Cape water crisis.
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