Right of reply to How to whitewash colonial pain and trauma, published in the Mail & Guardian 24 September
Minister Des Van Rooyen has criticised the province and will meet today with a task team to decide if the Western Cape drought is a national disaster
This comes after months of serious claims and counterclaims between the City of Cape Town and De Lille.
The DA’s Federal Executive Council will meet on Sunday "to thoroughly engage with all aspects of the allegations against De Lille".
De Lille said she had requested the firm to amend the report, and some of their findings, based on factual errors she had pointed out
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The declaration was made to quicken the reaction time for the deployment of resources to tackle water scarcity, says MEC Alan Winde.
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Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba addressed the provincial government of the Western Cape on the new immigration regulations.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has been re-elected as the premier of the Western Cape with 27 votes against the ANC’s 14.
Zille has said there is a strong likelihood there will be more than one woman in the provincial executive after the elections.
National government needs look no further than that province for an example of how it can be done.
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/ 13 September 2010
All 25 departments and public entities falling under the DA-led Western Cape government received unqualified audits for the 2009-10 financial year.
Refugees want to tell Ebrahim Rasool that they are terrified of being forced to reintegrate, despite camps being scheduled to close on July 23.
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/ 22 February 2008
The Western Cape government may join in a contemplated R20-million lawsuit claim against a Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor it claims is behind the illegal occupation of houses at Delft on the Cape Flats. Premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Friday that his administration has been given ”preliminary” legal advice that it could sue the DA as well.
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/ 14 November 2007
The death toll from Tuesday’s accident involving a truck crammed with farmworkers has risen to eight. The news came as the Western Cape government vowed to crack down on the way farmworkers are transported. The accident happened in the Boland, when the truck, reportedly carrying about 70 farmworkers, overturned.
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/ 12 November 2007
The Western Cape government is winning the war against drugs, Premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Monday. ”Considering that this financial year is only halfway through, police have already arrested 374 high flyers … confiscated 37Ă‚Â 558 grams of mandrax, 6Ă‚Â 499 grams of methamphetamine [tik] and 4Ă‚Â 447 grams of heroin,” he said.