Press Release: 4 June 2010

The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the news of the suspension of the controversial Director-General of Labour, Jimmy Manyi. The DA has been calling for strong action against Manyi who has stumbled from one controversial incident to the next. The DA had first revealed Manyi’s questionable ethics, by having exposed his actions at having tried to inflate the Department of Labours budget by over R1 billion. We had called for an investigation and his suspension the...

Speech Delivered in Parliament - 2 June 2010

My Name is Ian Ollis and I am here to recruit you!

The Youth of South Africa need you, need us,often in ways that we don’t really expect or anticipate. They need role models to follow in order to understand their place in the world and boy do we often disappoint them.

This weekend, the Hon. Deputy Minister of Transport, in exasperation at the landslide defeat of the ANC in by elections in the Western Cape said “The (by election) results are ...

Article by Rhoda Kadalie, 1 June 2010 - Business Day

JULIUS Malema’s African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is proof that political power ought not to be given to mindless thugs. And the league’s attempts to scupper Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille’s meeting in Gugulethu on Monday last week, ahead of by-elections, was one of the surest signs yet that should the ruling party face the prospect of defeat at the polls, it will resort to violence.

If generalising from the le...