Launching an appeal against last week’s full-bench Western Cape High Court judgment that declared its fixed cleaning, water and sanitation tariffs unlawful will not suspend the binding effect of the judgement.
Premier Alan Winde’s answers to parliamentary questions reveal the extent of the Western Cape’s political dilly-dallying over police resources for the past seven years.
The GOOD Party expresses its deep concern and outrage at the current state of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, which has effectively ground to a halt following the expiration of the municipal fuel contract on 30 April 2026.
The GOOD Party today reaffirms its commitment to ensuring a dignified and conducive learning environment for the children of the Cape Winelands.
Tomorrow, it marks two years since the tragic collapse of the building in Victoria Street, George.
The GOOD Party is procuring legal advice on the appropriate next steps to force the City of Cape Town to comply with last week’s Western Cape High Court finding that its fixed tariff regime is unlawful – and return over-charges to residents.
The GOOD Party calls on the City to stop pretending that it gives a damn about redistributive and social justice, and actually do something real to narrow inequality.
Speaker, the situation is so serious that in our latest amendment to the System of Delegations, this Council had to step in and assign responsibility to the Chairperson of the Safety and Security Portfolio Committee to ensure that CIVOC simply complies with its own requirements. That tells you everything.
Speaker, the people of Cape Town and South Africa must know that the Mayor of Cape Town and now leader of the Democratic Alliance, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has been lying to us all in Cape Town about reasons why we still don't have an affordable and inclusionary housing policy, 8 years later when this was first proposed by Brett Herron in this council.
The DA-run City is bending the rules to accommodate a favoured few. We are being asked to breathe life into a 17-year-old "Helen Zille Zombie Deal" that has already died three times.