The Madlanga Commission model combining investigators, lawyers, powers to subpoena, televised proceedings and accelerated prosecutions, should be applied to alleged police/law enforcement/gangster collusion across the country – not least in gang-ravaged Cape Town.
This province, like this city, is still living two realities: the well-serviced suburb, and the informal settlement on the urban edge, still waiting for water, sanitation, and a formal address decades after apartheid planning put it there.
Speaker, I thank the Minister for his reply, but I did not hear an answer. I heard a description of process. What this House needed was an explanation of failure.
GOOD Stellenbosch is deeply concerned that decisions taken by the Stellenbosch Municipal Council have placed Jamestown’s historic farmlands, small-scale farmers, and water security under growing development pressure.
National Treasury’s decision to appeal a Pretoria High Court ruling ordering government to increase and expand access to the Social Relief of Distress Grant is a disgraceful denial of the State’s constitutional obligations to provide income support to destitute people.
I want to talk about a lie we tell ourselves in this country and in this province. We say South Africa is being rebuilt. We say communities are being held together. We say families are surviving, adapting, enduring.
When the City of Cape Town announced it was disposing of the Bellville Velodrome, Africa’s only Olympic-standard indoor cycling track, it sought to placate cyclists by announcing the redevelopment of the cycling track at Vygieskraal Stadium.
Today, as we celebrate Women’s Month, GOOD Stellenbosch had the privilege of visiting and blessing the incredible women at Safe House.
GOOD Party Councillor Marius van Stade has today submitted a formal Notice of Question to the Municipal Manager, in terms of Rule 35.1 of the Standing Rules and Orders of Stellenbosch Municipal Council
Instead of drafting a short-term letting by-law designed to contribute to alleviating the crisis of unaffordability in the Cape Town housing market, the only beneficiary of the proposed by-law is the City itself, which will increase its income by charging slightly higher rates.