GAMBLING REGULATION CAN PROMOTE JOB CREATION, PROTECT VULNERABLE YOUTH, ENHANCE TAX REVENUES, AND ACCELERATE INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION

Today, I joined the picket at the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition to lobby for increased oversight and regulation of the online gambling industry.

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PREMIER’S SECRET POLICE REPORT CONTAINS NOTHING: MADLANGA COMMISSION CORRECT BODY TO PROBE GANG/POLICE COLLUSION

The only reason Western Cape Premier Alan Winde had for withholding the report that he requested from the Western Cape Police Ombudsman was that it exposed how absolutely toothless the whole exercise was.

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INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS RESIDENTS DON’T GET A “FOR YOU” THEY GET AN “F” “YOU”

Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s interpellation mini-debate on housing plans for Wingfield informal settlement.

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POLICE, CITY, AND PROVINCE MUST JOINTLY ACCOUNT FOR INACTION ON CAPE GUN VIOLENCE

Statement by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This is a speech delivered in reply to Premier Alan Winde’s statement to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament on the Ombudsman’s Report on Policing in the Western Cape.

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