*WAARHEID: GOOD launches an official newspaper.
A “good cure for fake news” says De Lille*
8 March 2020
Media release
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On Saturday Patricia de Lille’s GOOD launched its official party newspaper, WAARHEID!
In typical De Lille style, it doesn’t hold back. The tough issues of violence within families and escalating gender-based violence are tackled from the first page.
Studies from the University of the Western Cape noted how it was in the family home where children often first witness violence, suffer neglect and are exposed to ill-treatment. De Lille, not hiding from the truth, says our families are the foundation stones of our society. “Fixing our families is the key to reducing crime in our communities.”
WAARHEID intends to tell the news and the stories that permeate communities but which politicians and main stream media miss or pay no heed to.
The first issue responds to families in crisis. The stories come from the Mitchells Plain community but the issue is relevant country wide.
WAARHEID tells the news in the voices of those directly affected.
The printed newspaper will be distributed by GOOD members door-to-door with a digital version circulated through social media and to GOOD’s membership and supporters countywide.
GOOD was registered in February 2019. Less than 3 months later it won seats in both the National Legislature and Western Cape Provincial Parliament. De Lille was subsequently asked to serve as the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure in President Ramaphosa’s cabinet.
WAARHEID! also recaps the party’s achievements and successes during its first year. These include De Lille’s department’s recent releases of government buildings for use as shelters for the victims of gender-based violence.
Land reform has also been rapidly speeded up through the party’s insistence that public land be used for public good. De Lille has ensured that hundreds of properties and thousands of hectares of public, state-owned land have been released for housing, agriculture and land restitution cases in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, North West, Limpopo and the Eastern, Western and Northern Cape provinces. De Lille said “We must reverse the legacy of apartheid by returning land to dispossessed families and people of colour who were stripped of their dignity.”
In its desire to see more of government funds spent on the things we need – teachers, nurses, housing and inflation-linked grant increases – Secretary-General Brett Herron explained why GOOD is opposing the DA and EFF’s calls to increase the number of politicians on the government payroll.
WAARHEID! also interviewed Cape Town entrepreneur Iegshaan Small – producer of a new preservative-free ice cream – and social worker Geraldine Young, founder of the local Mitchells Plain Crisis Line.
The newspaper is available for download from http://bit.ly/GoodNewspaper