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ID – ‘HAS ANC SPOKESMAN JACKSON MTHEMBU BEEN ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING?’
11 MARCH 2010-Haniff Hoosen, the ID Secretary-General has called on the ANC to release a statement about its Spokesman Jackson Mthembu’s apparent arrest by the Mowbray Police in Cape Town this morning, for drunk driving.
ID’S JOE MCGLUWA – ‘WHY DOES BAFANA BAFANA NOT HAVE TRAINING BASE FOR WORLD CUP?’
11 MARCH 2010-Joe Mcgluwa, the ID Spokesperson for Sport has called on Safa ‘to make up its mind about where Bafana Bafana’s training base for the World Cup is going to be.
ID’S GREYLING – ‘FORGIVE US FOR TAKING JACKSON MTHEMBU’S CALL FOR A DEBATE ON PARTY FUNDING WITH A PINCH OF SALT’
10 MARCH 2010-ID Chief Whip Lance Greyling says that ‘considering the ANC has been dodging the issue of political party funding for 6 years, we should be forgiven for taking ANC Spokesperson Jackson Mthembu’s call for a debate on this with a full-size pinch of salt.’
ID YOUTH LEAGUE PRESIDENT DEFENDS PATRICIA DE LILLE AGAINST MALEMA’S ‘JUVENILE’ ATTACKS
10 MARCH 2010-‘Behind the veneer of intoxication and madness lurks not a young lion,’ says Limberg
ID WRITES TO WORLD BANK PRESIDENT DR ROBERT ZOELLICK ABOUT ESKOM LOAN
9 MARCH 2010-‘Make R29b Eskom loan conditional on Chancellor House’s withdrawal,’ says Greyling
ID’S LANCE GREYLING ASKS MINISTER HOGAN WHETHER ARCELOR MITTAL IS ALSO RECEIVING ‘DIRT CHEAP’ ELECTRICITY?’
9 MARCH 2010-Lance Greyling, the ID spokesperson for finance and public enterprises, has called on the Government ‘to stop allowing multinationals to exploit our resources without any developmental benefits for our people.'
ID’S JOE MCGLUWA CAUTIONS OPPOSITION PARTIES TO FOCUS ON UNITY
8 MARCH 2010-‘DA must distance itself from Theuns Botha’s comments,’ says Mcgluwa
ID’S JOE MCGLUWA CALLS FOR REHABILITATION OF BEIT BRIDGE BABOONS
7 MARCH 2010-Joe Mcgluwa, the ID Spokesperson for Home Affairs has called for the rehabilitation of around 200 baboons at the Beit Bridge border post in Limpopo that are reportedly responsible for stealing from and terrorizing pedestrians, motorists, truckers and customs officials.
ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE QUESTIONS DELAY IN PRESIDENT ZUMA’S DECLARATION OF ASSETS
7 MARCH 2010-ID President Patricia de Lille has commented on reports that President Jacob Zuma has still not declared his financial interests, assets and liabilities months after the August 2009 deadline.
ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE – ‘LIKELY MALEMA IS STEALING FROM POOR THROUGH TAX EVASION’
7 MARCH 2010-Party submits questions on Malema companies’ tax status and Zuma’s ‘morality debate’
ID WESTERN CAPE WISHES DA WELL FOR PROVINCIAL CONGRESS THIS WEEKEND
4 MARCH 2010-Rodney Lentit, the ID Western Cape Provincial Secretary has extended his party’s well wishes to the DA in the province for their leadership conference this weekend.
ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE QUESTIONS COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER OVER MORE EXTENSIVE SUBTITLING FOR DEAF VIEWERS
3 MARCH 2010-ID President Patricia de Lille has submitted a question to the Minister of Communications, for written response, asking whether the SABC ‘intends using available technology by means if subtitling to assist’ deaf viewers to view its television programming.
ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE WANTS ANSWERS OVER ACCOMMODATION FOR JUDGES
3 MARCH 2010-ID President Patricia de Lille has submitted a question for written response to the Minister of Public Works seeking answers over the ‘accommodation for judges saga.’
ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE SHOCKED OVER JUSTICE DELAYED AT SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT
3 MARCH 2010-In an answer to a question for written response from ID President Patricia de Lille, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Jeff Radebe has confirmed that a total of 281 cases in the South Gauteng High Court have been unable to go to appeal as a result of problems with transcripts.
ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE AGREES WITH GODSELL’S “ECONOMIC TERRORISM” COMMENTS, IN SPEECH AT FREE STATE UNIVERSITY TODAY
2 MARCH 2010-ID President Patricia de Lille will come out in support of recent comments by the chairman of Business Leadership South Africa, Bobby Godsell, when she delivers a speech to the MBA Programme at the University of the Free State at around 14H00 today.
ID WANTS PUBLIC PROTECTOR TO TABLE ‘CHANCELLOR HOUSE REPORT’ IN PARLIAMENT
2 MARCH 2010-Lance Greyling, the ID spokesperson for energy affairs, has written to the Public Protector, Thulisile Madonsela, requesting that she table Report No 30 of 2008/2009 in Parliament.
ID CAPE TOWN ‘ALARMED’ BY REPORTS THAT CITY IS OVER-REPORTING AND UNDER-DELIVERING ON SERVICES
1 MARCH 2010-Brett Herron, ID Councillor and Spokesperson for the ID Caucus in the City of Cape Town, says the ID is ‘alarmed and deeply concerned’ by a report in today’s Cape Times (“Half a million in city have no sanitation”), which claims that more than “100 000 households, or half a million people, in Cape Town do not have access to basic sanitation”.
ID’S JOE MCGLUWA SLAMS CAPE TOWN AND WESTERN CAPE PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES FOR NO SHOW AT PUBLIC HEARINGS
25 FEBRUARY 2010Joe Mcgluwa, the ID Spokesperson for Service Delivery, has criticised public representatives in Cape Town and the Western Cape for being ‘sloppy and uncaring in their attitudes to service delivery.’
ID WESTERN CAPE PROVIDES REASONS ON WHY GEORGE’S COUNCIL MUST NOW BE RECONSTITUTED; TWO LETTERS FROM ID LEADER PATRICIA DE LILLE TO DA LEADER HELEN ZILLE REGARDING THIS MATTER IS INCLUDED.
24 FEBRUARY 2010-ID Western Cape Provincial Secretary Rodney Lentit has provided the following reasons for why the ID believes that George Council needs to be reconstituted, after the announcement of the DA that they would take up an opposition role:
ID’S LANCE GREYLING – ‘ELECTRICITY TARIFF INCREASES WILL CRIPPLE OUR ECONOMY’
24 FEBRUARY 2010-Lance Greyling, the ID energy spokesperson has condemned Nersa’s approved increase in the price of electricity for three consecutive years, saying the hikes ‘will cripple our economy, consumers and small businesses and have committed us to a coal-fired energy future South Africa and the world can ill-afford.
