A speech I gave in parliament on the 13 April 2010


Honourable Speaker, Honourable members.

Are we helping South Africa’s workers and the unemployed? When we look
at how the labour department is performing, there is some good, some bad
and some really ugly.

This year, the good is the work of the Unemployment Fund, the CCMA and
Nedlac. They are performing their functions well and we get very little by
way of complaints about their service generally. To them, the DA says:
“Well done”.

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Ian Ollis, Shadow Deputy Minister of Labour
19 June 2009

South Africa has now entered a recession that we had hoped to avoid. This will have a profound effect on employment and if we look at the number of new jobs created in the past financial year, through the efforts of the Department of Labour, then we are never going to achieve anything like the 500 000 jobs that have been promised by the President. Radical changes would need to be brought to the budget and business plan of the labour depar...
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