November 2006
November 2006 press releases are stored here.
ID: A NEW ERA OF HOPE IN CT CITY POLITICS
2006-11-01. In welcoming the deal concluded yesterday between the ANC and the DA, the Independent Democrats today call on both parties to continue the spirit of compromise needed to move Cape Town forward.
Greyling – ‘Education department’s R45m must go to the root of the problem’
2006-11-02. Lance Greyling, ID MP and spokesperson on education, says the R45m the department has earmarked for security in schools should not be used ‘only for the supply of security technology to schools, but should be paired with a more holistic approach towards dealing with school violence.
‘Tony Leon is a Eurocentric bumbling buffoon,’ says Vincent Gore
2006-11-03. ID MP Vincent Gore says DA leader Tony Leon’s comments to the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University in England last night ‘make George Bush sound like a doctor of philosophy.’
ID Slam ANC over city boundary surrender
2006-11-03. The ID in the Cape Town Metro today strongly criticise the ANC for their surrender over the Metro Sub-Council boundary issue.
De Lille – ‘two crooks down, many more to go…’
2006-11-06. ID President Patricia de Lille says the news that the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein has rejected Schabir Shaik’s appeal against his fraud and corruption conviction means, ‘I have been vindicated.
Mcgluwa wants government ‘to block porn sites’
2006-11-06. Independent Democrats Cape Town Councillor Joe Mcgluwa says Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi ‘must employ IT specialists to introduce an effective blocking system for porn sites.
Copy of the speech delivered by ID MP Lance Greyling in Parliament
2006-11-07. Madame Deputy Speaker, Former President Nelson Mandela once said that “the children, who sleep in the streets reduced to begging to make a living, are testimony to an unfinished job.”
Copy of one of two statements delivered by ID MP Lance Greyling in the House
2006-11-08. Statement on Health Budget in the MTEF.
Copy of one of two statements delivered by ID MP Lance Greyling in the House
2006-11-08. My, how the ANC has changed - the two biggest winners in this year’s MTEF are the arms industry and the nuclear industry. I am sure this would not have been acceptable twelve years ago.
Out of Pat’s Pen
2006-11-10. It has been a very long road for me, this Arms Deal saga. I was branded a ‘useful idiot’ and accused of telling ‘blatant lies’ in the months and years that followed my exposure of Arms Deal corruption, but I have stood by my guns. Now, after Tony Yengeni and Schabir Shaik’s convictions, the chickens are slowly coming home to roost.
De Lille – former ID Media Officer’s death ‘a tragic loss of young talent’
2006-11-12. ID President Patricia de Lille has extended her ‘heartfelt condolences’ to the family of former ID Media Officer Thulani Sithole, who died in a car accident in KZN over the weekend.
‘She knows far more about what it means to be ‘a real Xhosa girl’ than Goniwe does,’ says De Lille
2006-11-12. ID President Patricia de Lille says the allegations of sexual harassment against ANC Chief Whip, Mbulelo Goniwe, ‘are particularly severe given that this is the second similar allegation that has been made against him in recent weeks.
De Lille – ‘Yengeni must serve full four years’
2006-11-13. ID President Patricia de Lille says that based on the behaviour over the weekend of former ANC Chief Whip Tony Yengeni, ‘the Department of Correctional Services is failing in its efforts to rehabilitate his criminal nature.
Copy of the Members Statement delivered by ID MP Lance Greyling in the National Assembly
2006-11-14. Madam Speaker, this is the tenth anniversary of our beloved constitution. South Africans always mention with pride that ours is the most progressive constitution in the world. Unfortunately, however, the values of our society do not always match the progressive values of our constitution.
Copy of the Members Statement delivered by ID President Patricia de Lille in the National Assembly
2006-11-14. Honourable Speaker and Members, Kabelo Thibedi, who was sentenced to five years in jail after he took a Home Affairs official hostage, could have bought an ID book on the street for R200. The young man would probably not have been arrested.
The Sexual Offences Bill is to be discussed in Parliament today – this is the ID’s stance on the Bill, delivered by ID MP Florence Batyi
2006-11-16. The amended sexual offences bill is a step in the right direction, but far more is needed to rediscover the moral fibre of our people. As with most of our crises, it is the grassroots that are the biggest victims of sexual offences.
Patricia de Lille congratulates ANC on Goniwe’s suspension
2006-11-16. ID President Patricia de Lille has congratulated the ANC on its suspension of Chief Whip Mbulelo Goniwe, saying ‘the ANC is setting a good example to South Africans.’
This speech was delivered by ID MP Avril Harding in the House
2006-11-16. ANTWOORD OP MIN. VAN KORREKTIEWE DIENSTE AANKONDIGING OOR TONY YENGENI.
ID WANT URGENT HALT TO CITY WATER CUT-OFFS
2006-11-20. The Independent Democrats in the Cape Town Metro today call upon theCity to suspend water terminations and restrictions to households with no income.
De Lille invites street children to Parliament
2006-11-21. ID President Patricia de Lille has invited the city’s street children to Parliament tomorrow for a 13H00 meeting where the children will be able to tell their stories about life on the street.
ID MP Florence Batyi’s child maintenance campaign in Mitchells Plain
2006-11-22. ‘If some of our men are unsure of what it means to be a man, then we will give them a better understanding,’ says Batyi.
Grindrod demands criminal investigation into crime website scam
2006-11-22. ID Cape Town leader Simon Grindrod will be at the Caledon Square Police Station tomorrow at 13H00 to ask police to conduct a criminal investigation into the founder of the crime expo website, www.crimeexposouthafrica.org
Greyling: children who live on the street thrown into jail after meeting with ID
2006-11-22. ID MP Lance Greyling says he is ‘furious’ after about 10 children who live on the street were arrested on the Grand Parade under two hours after they met with Independent Democrats MPs in Parliament.
Grindrod at Caledon Square Police Station at 13H00
2006-11-23. Cape Town ID leader Simon Grindrod will be at the Caledon Square Police Station at 13h00 today - Thursday 23 November - to ask police to conduct a criminal investigation into the now defunct Crime Expo SA website.
Neil Watson investigated by Commercial Crimes Unit
2006-11-23. ID Cape Town leader Simon Grindrod has today challenged Crime Expo SA founder Neil Watson to come out of hiding and explain the situation surrounding the closure of the site.
ID - 16 Days of Activism Speech
2006-11-23. This is a copy of the speech due to be delivered by MPL Rose Gudlhuza in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature tomorrow. The topic of the debate is the 16 Days of Activism. Ms Gudlhuza is Chairperson of the ID Women’s Agenda.
ID press conference on National Executive Committee Meeting
2006-11-25. The Independent Democrats will be holding a press conference at the Sunnyside Park Hotel in Johannesburg tomorrow, Sunday 26 November, at 13H00.
Greyling – ‘No amount of window dressing is going to do away with the terrible impact the DA has had on the reputation of our white people’
2006-11-26. ID MP Lance Greyling has congratulated the DA’s party chief executive and strategist Ryan Coetzee for ‘finally taking the advice of the Independent Democrats to tone down the DA’s superior and arrogant attitude.’
De Lille – ‘Leon’s departure means NP conservatives will intensify battle against liberals’
2006-11-26. ID President Patricia de Lille has welcomed DA leader Tony Leon’s imminent departure from South African politics.
ID wants Eastern Cape housing contractor out
2006-11-28. With an Independent Democrats Housing Inspection Team’s discovery of three undersized houses in a municipality in the Eastern Cape, the party’s promised ‘aggressive campaign to check the quality of government houses’ is underway.
