A variety of political parties tabled their arguments, concerns and acknowledgements in the North West Province Legislature’s Debate to Premier Job Mokgoro’s State of the Province Address on Tuesday, 02 July 2019.

According to the third largest political party in the legislature, the Democratic Alliance (DA), seems to not be convinced the Premier will bring political stability and work in the North West Province. In a speech, that was delivered by its Caucus Leader in the Province, Winston Rabotapi, The DA challenged the Premier to take tougher actions, this after all 22 municipalities in the province received bad audits in a recent report by the Auditor General. “We are of the opinion that the first step towards saving municipalities is to resolve the factionalism within the ANC and that should be the Premier’s first priority.” Rabotapi proposed. Rabotapi also linked these factions to be the key instigators of violence and destructions through a variety of protests in the province.

“The Ditsobotla Municipal Officials expressed their dissatisfaction with the administrator under the guise of protest action of unemployed youth, while the Naledi Council Meeting turned into a hostage situation because the outgoing Municipal Manager rallied his supporters in an attempt to escape accountability for years of mismanagement.” Rabotapi said .

He has called for these instigators to be dealt with they are making the work of the administrators unbearable.

According to Rabotapi, farm attacks and murders have become synonymous with the agricultural industry causing many to opt out. This is despite this industry being an important one for purposes of job creation and food security in the province. This opposition party is convinced that Premier’s silence as far as this issue is concern is a sign of a lack of concern as far as such issues are concern. “we can all agree that the North West economy is largely dependent on agriculture and the Premier outlined various programmes that will be assisting youth and emerging farmers to enter the market. It is however alarming that just like in his State of the Province Address in February, not a word has been breathed about rural safety.” The DA Caucus Leader expressed.

“The Premier set deadlines of various projects to be completed within 100, 200 and 300 days respectively. As part of exercising our oversight role, we will be closely monitoring the progress.” Rabotapi Concluded.

-DA NW Media

-The VIP Team