Hon Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) joins the DA in congratulating its structures on winning no fewer than 13 by-elections on 24 June 2009, namely Ward 25 in Msunduzi in KwaZulu-Natal; Wards 18, 35 and 36 in eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal; Wards 6 and 9 in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape; Wards 9, 14 and 73 in the City of Cape Town in the Western Cape; Ward 3 in the Overstrand in the Western Cape; Ward 3 in Bitou in the Western Cape; Ward 3 in George in the Western Cape; and Ward 24 in Sol Plaatje in the Northern Cape; and
2) notes that this proves yet again and beyond any doubt that the DA is the only alternative to the ANC, and undoubtedly the national government of the South Africa of the future.
[Applause.]