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            <description><![CDATA[Today, Members of the Executive Council of the 6th Gauteng provincial administration are being sworn-in by Judge President Dunstan Mlambo of the Gauteng Division of the South African High Court.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[We have descended to the KwaZulu-Natal Capital City to inaugurate and mark the beginning of the 6th provincial administration. It is with an esteem sense of humility to welcome all of you coming from different towns, farms, valleys, and hills of our beautiful province.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is befitting to start by extending my sincere appreciation and thank the Judge President of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal - Judge A.N Jappie  - for taking time from your court schedule to preside over the first sitting of this House to elect the Premier, Speaker and Deputy Speaker.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[I’d like to thank every single voter that came out on Wednesday to support the DA’s mission of building a non-racial alternative at the centre of South African politics. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As I cast my vote this morning, I felt I had achieved a milestone, for this is the 10th time I have voted in a democratic election. It makes me proud to think that we have come this far as a nation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[We stood here in this stadium in 2016 and we said: Change is coming!

We said we’d be in government in Johannesburg. They said we couldn’t do it.]]></description>
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