DA calls for nuclear build to be scrapped

Aug 17, 2015

The DA has called for the “secretive and unaffordable nuclear deal” to be scrapped as it emerges that the Environment Impact Assessments (EIAs) conducted to assess and predict the environmental consequences of chosen nuclear build sites – and which...

DA questions Parliament on EduSolutions deal

Jul 28, 2015

The DA is asking Parliament how EduSolutions came to be awarded a R200-million contract to deliver tablets, laptops and e-learning materials to Gauteng schools. The company, which was implicated in the 2012 Limpopo textbook crisis has won a lucrative Gauteng e-learning contact, and DA shadow deputy minister of basic education Desiree van der Walt says this should raise loud alarm bells.

DA questions nuclear transparency

Jul 13, 2015

The DA is to ask the Minister of Energy, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, for the full details of the two memoranda of understanding (MOU) signed with Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation (Rosatom) at the BRICS Summit last week. Gordon Mackay, Shadow Minister of Energy,...

DA concerned about sale of Vodacom stake

Jul 2, 2015

Although cautiously optimistic about government’s sale of its 13,9% stake in Vodacom to the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), and a shift in the policy towards funding of distressed state-owned entities, the DA has a number of concerns around the Eskom...

DA wants electricity tariff debate

May 26, 2015

The proposed new price hike from Eskom may have negative implications for the Reserve Banks’ determination of interest rates – which would have a direct adverse effect on the cost of living and the economy’s ability to create jobs.This is according to David Ross,...