The City of Cape Town has confirmed in response to an application under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) that it used special funds earmarked to build homes for poor people to pay for a piece of land in Milnerton which it is now selling for a R71m profit to a private developer.
Documents obtained from the City of Cape Town under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) confirm that the City’s Sport Asset Management Policy, launched with much fanfare in 2022, has effectively been abandoned.
Right-wing South Africans feeding the false narrative of White persecution are strengthening the hand of populist political parties who believe the Constitution is skewed towards the protection of minority rights and property.
Today the Democratic Alliance leader, and Mayor of Cape Town, Geordin Hill-Lewis, reannounced the release of the Salt River Market site to Communicare for a mixed-income development, including social and affordable housing.
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD City of Cape Town Mayoral Candidate. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered at the GOOD party's City of Cape Town Manifesto Launch.
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.