Parliamentary Speeches
 

AZAPO RESPONSE TO THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS The story is told of a high school boy who was fluffing his Mathematics, and when his father scolded him and urged him to pull up his socks, the young man replied: Don’t worry dad. I don’t have to work so hard to get my Maths right. After all, I plan to be a weather man when I finish school. Obviously, the young man did not know that weather forecasters need some knowledge of Maths, Geography, Physics and these days, IT as well, to function in their jobs Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 15 Feb 2010 by Administrator Sumbandila Micro Satellite Launch South Africans, particularly those directly involved in the Science and Technology environment, have been holding their breath in the last two days, praying for the successful launch of the Sumbandila micro satellite by a Russian ship. The launch has been postponed twice in as many days due to technical hitches and adverse weather conditions in that part of the world. It is now hoped that Sumbandila would be launched today Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 17 Sep 2009 by Administrator DEBATE ON VOTE 30: PUBLIC ENTERPRISE I was a member of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprise between 1999 and 2001. In that period, the Eskom leadership made presentation to us about the need to build new power stations as generation capacity was likely to be overtaken by demand around 2008. It is now a known fact that the Government did not give Eskom permission to build new power stations, which was a big mistake Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 23 Jun 2009 by Azapo NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON 10th JUNE 2009 On Sunday the 14th June, the Confederation Cup kicks off in South Africa. Our youth will run onto the field of soccer to compete against champions from all continents of the world. Their counterparts in cricket are in England mixing it up with the best. The Junior Boks are in Japan where they are doing our country proud, by all accounts Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 10 Jun 2009 by Azapo A CONDOLENCE MESSAGE ON THE DEATH OF ADVOCATE DIRK DE TOIT We join the family of Adv. Dirk du Toit, his organisation, the ANC, on their sorrow over his untimely passing. Untimely because, at 65, Dirk could still have made a lot of contributions to his family and country Read more • 0 Comments Posted on 10 Jun 2009 by Azapo << Previous 1 2 Next >> Content Management Powered by CuteNews