“The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance up you and give you peace.”

While government has implemented numerous programmes to support small business growth and development, the mountain of regulations are limiting. We should not allow millions of SMMEs to be held back from reaching their full potential due to red tape.

Increased incidents of loadshedding and Transnet’s logistics crisis have significantly impacted on corporate tax collections, and these are issues we can address.

The ACDP does not support preferential procurement provisions which have contributed to state capture and corruption and have grossly inflated government contracts.

The Eskom Debt Relief Amendment Bill seeks to convert a R254 billion Eskom debt relief package from an interest-free loan to one that will bear interest.

We find it totally unacceptable that the state would not want to compensate poor women who have complications with childbirth resulting in children either dying or being born with Cerebral Palsy.

Despite welcome exemptions and improvements to the provisions relating to hate speech, we believe this bill will have a chilling effect on freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

The NPA Amendment Bill does not go far enough in setting out the NPA’s independence or that of the proposed Investigating Directorate Against Corruption.

The new SAHRC Commissioners that have being nominated will have to really turn around the Commission to ensure that human rights are protected.

The floods of February 2023 wreaked havoc in at least 7 of our 9 provinces, causing loss of lives and damage to property running into billions of rands, with a commensurate loss to the economy of South Africa.

The ability to create, distribute and exploit knowledge has become a major source of competitive advantage, wealth creation and improvements in the quality of life. 

Inefficiencies at Transnet may have cost the country a staggering R150 billion in forfeited mineral exports last year alone.