Honourable House Chairperson, The ACDP notes that the three strategic priorities of this Department, focuses on Industrialisation, Transformation and a Capable State and wish to state that on all three priorities, the Department has failed. Why? Over the last few...
Referencing error keeps Economic Regulation of Transport AB in limbo
May 22, 2025
Honourable Deputy Speaker, The ACDP notes that the Economic Regulation of Transport Amendment Bill was passed by the National Assembly on 29 February 2024 and was assented to by the President on 6 June 2024. However, we further note that the President has not...
The days of going to Europe, America and China with begging bowls are over
May 22, 2025
The ACDP notes with interest how African Presidents responded to President Donald Trump’s decision to stop USAID for programmes and other parts of the world. Zambia’s President, Hakainde Hichilema reportedly said that the American aid agency freeze on funding to...
Smaller growing parties severely impacted by unnecessary amendment to party funding formula
May 20, 2025
House Chair The ACDP has studied the Report which basically doubles the upper limit of donations from R15 million to R30 million and the threshold fir disclosure from R100,000 to R200,000, and also to address the legal lacuna in the law following last year’s hasty...
ACDP urges action on mine safety, job preservation and illegal mining crackdown
May 13, 2025
Honourable House Chairperson, In welcoming this report, focusing on mine health and safety, the ACDP notes that South Africa’s mining sector employs nearly 500 000 people, and yes, concerns over worker safety persist. While fatalities have dramatically declined since...
Hiring foreigners in sensitive government positions poses public security risk
May 13, 2025
The ACDP is shocked by reports that many government departments have employed foreign nationals in strategic and sensitive positions that could pose a serious public security risk. The South African National Security Secretariat has raised concerns about hiring...
Drive SA’s economic growth and employment by expanding beneficiation reach
May 6, 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
May 6, 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
Apr 3, 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
Apr 2, 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
Mar 6, 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
Mar 5, 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...
BRR Report on Public Works and Infrastructure
Nov 25, 2025
Honourable Deputy Speaker, as we consider this Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure, it is the view of the ACDP that infrastructure is not just about roads, bridges, and buildings; it is about whether...
BRR Report on Trade, Industry and Competition
Nov 25, 2025
House Chairperson, the ACDP notes this Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report of the Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition and acknowledges the Department’s ambitious R700 billion investment pipeline, including R339 billion in transformative...
Afreximbank will need strong oversight, transparency and risk-management safeguards
Nov 25, 2025
House Chairperson, the ACDP notes the Report of the Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition on the request for approval of ratification of the Agreement establishing the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), signed in May 1993. This bank was created...
Build up the systems that prevent GBV from thriving says ACDP
Nov 25, 2025
Honourable Chairperson, honourable Members, the ACDP notes the growing momentum of activism against gender-based violence (GBV), particularly against women and children by civil society. The Women for Change-led Purple Campaign, which called for a national shutdown...
Legality and motives behind arrival of 153 Gazans in South Africa questioned
Nov 16, 2025
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) has learned, like many South Africans, of the arrival and subsequent entrance of some 153 Gazans via the O.R Tambo International Airport, on 13 November 2025. We understand that the Department of Home Affairs and the...
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