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Citizen Contribution: Jf Theunissen [1995] ZAConAsmRes 876 (17 February 1995)

 

17 February 1995.

I would like to suggest the following:-

There are nine regions maybe 10 (Volkstaat)
Now the President is nominated from various parties and the one who gets the highest number is then president, Now he elects his parliment that is the Minister of Health, Defence, Finance etc plus any debuties.

Now as I said we have say 10 regions and in each region you have various parties NP. PAC etc now which ever party wins the most eg i" party D gets 600/o then they have 6 seats and so on but no more than 10 members to the Assembly. I cannot see why we should have 400 in the National Assembly and 90 in the Senate, The whole lot should be combined and called the Senate and have no more than 100 plus various ministers.?? The Regions should be kept to a minimum,

We must looked to the future and think what its going to cost by the year 2000 and beyond. If I think back to 1945 what things cost and then we said how expensive it is and what it is today and we still say the same, there are more poor people unemployed today that in those days and in the years ahead it will only get worse.

Less Members then we will get more work done, less fat cats and we will

have more money to help the poor, ill and schools in the future.
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TAXES: I feel all people over 65 years should pay no tax and if paid to be a small amount and on all interest/Dividends etc no change.

I feel as a pensioner and like most others in our class we all ride old cars and cannot ever buy a new car. Pensioners must be looked after and not milked except those in the millionare range.??

I have typed the above for what it might be worth and am only stating things with an open mind. I am not Political and belong to no party.

Yours sincerely,

J F Theunissen
Pensioner.