Churches can flex their muscles and have their voices heard to change legislation

by HAaudibee | Mar 26, 2024 | Speeches, Speeches 2024

House Chair, The ACDP appreciates that the bill before the House is a vast improvement on the leaked Cabinet Bill and seeks to undo the worst conduct during the Zuma years when intelligence services were abused to protect one man, former President Zuma, rather than...

ACDP cannot support the potential raiding of Reserve Bank buffers until nothing is left

by HAaudibee | Mar 26, 2024 | Speeches, Speeches 2024

Chairperson, The ACDP shares concerns that have been expressed about the usage of R150 billion of the Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserve Account to offset the fiscal deficit. Chairperson, there’s a saying in Afrikaans that says “benoude katte maak benoude spronge” — in...

169 of 250 municipalities are in financial distress causing a collapse of services

by HAaudibee | Mar 26, 2024 | Speeches, Speeches 2024

House Chair, National Treasury transfers more than half of the nationally raised revenues to nine provinces and 257 municipalities. The ACDP has studied the report and we definitely share concerns, Honourable Minister, about the inflation average increase of only 3.8%...

South Africa’s water infrastructure risks failure due to poor governance

by HAaudibee | Mar 26, 2024 | Speeches, Speeches 2024

Honourable House Chairperson, The ACDP notes that this Bill seeks to provide for the establishment of the South African National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency as a state-owned company and major public entity, in other words the establishment of another State...

We must do far more to protect women and children in South Africa and globally

by HAaudibee | Mar 26, 2024 | Speeches, Speeches 2024

House Chair The ACDP supports this report and we wish the candidates who will be appointed by the President well with their constitutional mandate of promoting gender equality and the protection, development and attainment of gender equality. And, it is against this...