With two weeks left to report to the Constitutional Court on its “management” of the affordable housing crisis in Cape Town, the Mayor is talking up a storm about densifying the Southern Suburbs, with no actual plans in place, while the City has quietly signed an eight-year lease extension for King David Mowbray Golf Club.
Seven women are dead, but the messages we keep sending are wrong.
The GOOD Party calls on the DA-led Drakenstein Municipality to open its books and subject its recruitment processes to an internal audit to determine the extent of family relationships among municipal employees.
On Friday, the GOOD Party received a curt letter from the Western Cape Provincial Legislature’s Appeals Committee setting aside the findings of its Conduct Committee against Brett Herron MPL relating to a statement concerning the behaviour of DA MP Ian Cameron.
The GOOD Party in Drakenstein is demanding immediate action from the DA-led administration to unlock the electrification of Bakka Informal Settlement, where approximately 45 families continue to live without access to electricity despite a solution having been identified months ago.
The GOOD Party has elected Cllr Marius van Stade as its Mayoral Candidate for Stellenbosch Municipality in the 2026 Local Government Elections on 6 September 2026.
According to the government, adult South Africans need R868 a month (or about R29 a day) to buy enough food to meet an adult’s required daily energy intake. But the government grant for unemployed adults is just R370 a month (about R12 a day).
Let me be clear from the outset: The GOOD Party has no issue with the upgrading of Plattner Boulevard. On the contrary, the upgrading and maintenance of municipal infrastructure is one of the GOOD Party's core priorities. Good roads mean good economics.
I rise on the item dealing with Hansmoeskraal 1, 2 and 3 in George.Speaker, we must be clear on one principle: In South African law, Municipal Property is Public Property. What is municipal property? It is any immovable asset owned by the municipality - land, buildings, servitudes, commonages. In this case, Hansmoeskraal 1, 2 and 3.
GOOD Stellenbosch wishes to make its position clear following the Stellenbosch Municipal Council meeting of 25 August 2026, where GOOD abstained from voting on the proposed three-month extension of the Municipal Manager’s contract.