Applause if we are going to reform the state we

[Applause.]
If we are going to reform the state we should have made Cabinet
much smaller. Instead, the President made it look as if he’s
cutting Cabinet and introduced Deputy Ministers, doubled them
up. I want to argue this case that we can reduce the state to
15 ministries, eradicate Deputy Ministers and make sure money
is available for the people of this country. [Applause.]
The sixth reform I want to table is in fact that we must extend
property ownership to millions of dispossessed South Africans.
Our history is such that too many were dispossessed, in both
urban and rural. Therefore, let’s give our citizens the right
own title. The right, so that black and white South Africans
must be able to access the benefit of owning private property as
an economic asset that allows them to transfer wealth to future
generations. While we at it, let’s give shareholding to younger
South Africans so that they can transfer wealth; so that one day
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people cannot transfer wealth one generation to the next.
[Applause.]
The seventh reform I want to say, Mr President, is that if we
want to keep South Africans safe at home, in rural communities,
on farms, let us give the SA Police into well run, well trained,
highly professional crime-fighting units, let us give this to
the hands of the provincial governments. [Applause.] Let us
reform policing so that provinces can run it. Hand them over to
provincial governments.
Fellow South Africans, if we reform we can begin a way to the
future of South Africa. Ten years from now, I want to see a
South Africa that looks completely different from today.
We can halve unemployment. DA governments are already forging
ahead, and have begun innovating, modernizing and growing the
cities. [Interjections.] That’s why where we govern, you’ll
find that unemployment is the lowest in the country due to our
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Today, Stellenbosch has already got an ecosystem in the most
productive in Africa, employing over 40 O00 people; more than
Lagos and Nairobi combined, and rightly earning the title of
Africa’s tech hub.
In terms of renewal energy, eight out of ten municipalities in
the Western Cape have already got laws in place to allow for
independent solar energy generation; and most of them want to
sell energy back to the grid.
This is what a city-led economic growth plan would look like.
That’s why we are taking this government to court to ask that
they must give the rights to the City of Cape Town to be able to
generate energy for citizens here. [Applause.] And we will do it
to all the cities.
In terms of education, the DA-run Western Cape’s investment in
the future of eLearning has seen over R1,4 billion invested in
the past five years. It’s already delivered over 1 160 refreshed
computer labs, 28 870 devices for learners and 11 000 resources
for our online portal.

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