Drive SA’s economic growth and employment by expanding beneficiation reach

by HAaudibee | May 6, 2025 | Speeches, Speeches 2025

Honourable House Chairperson, The ACDP celebrates all workers who have given their blood, sweat and tears in the building of our country.  South Africa over the last two to three decades, has experienced a significant decline in industrialisation. Manufacturing’s...

South Africans find little to celebrate on Freedom Day

by HAaudibee | May 6, 2025 | Speeches, Speeches 2025

Deputy Speaker According to the Founding Provisions of our Constitution, the Republic of South Africa is one sovereign, democratic state, founded on, among other things, values such as human dignity, the achievement of equality, and the advancement of human rights and...

ACDP opposes VAT hike: We need a pro-growth budget that cuts unnecessary spending

by HAaudibee | Apr 3, 2025 | Speeches, Speeches 2025

Madam Deputy Speaker, The ACDP appreciates that this is a very complicated and complex matter. However, let us make it very clear that we have some serious concerns with the report, and we are concerned from a legal perspective as to the process that was followed....

ACDP stands firm against global and local human rights violations

by HAaudibee | Apr 2, 2025 | Speeches, Speeches 2025

Honourable House Chairperson, As we consider this debate on Human Rights, allow me to dispel the lie, that South Africa is a secular state. At the drafting of our Constitution in 1996, our ACDP President fought against SA being a secular democracy. We won this battle...

Government should let the US Administration know that South Africa is ready for business

by HAaudibee | Mar 6, 2025 | Speeches, Speeches 2025

House Chairperson, On 7 February 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order suspending all USAID to South Africa, citing concerns over this country’s land expropriation laws, which the US administration alleges discriminates against Afrikaners. The ACDP...

ACDP says there’s no vision, empathy or care for those at Setoltolwane LSEN Secondary School

by HAaudibee | Mar 5, 2025 | Speeches, Speeches 2025

Honourable House Chairperson, The ACDP is appalled to hear of the negligent attitude toward the most vulnerable children in our nation, the blind and deaf, at the Setotolwane Secondary School, in Polokwane, Limpopo. Helen Keller, who was born deaf and blind said, “the...