The GOOD party will launch our 2024 Election Manifesto, in Johannesburg, on Saturday 16 March 2024 ahead of the national and provincial general elections which will take place on 29 May 2024.
Despite acknowledging that our economic growth rate is projected to average only 1.1% over the next few years the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, kept things safe in the Budget Speech he delivered today.
This is the speech that was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General and Member of Parliament, Brett Herron, during today’s sitting for the Consideration of Recommendation for Removal from Office Judges Hlophe and Motata.
The latest unemployment figures once again confirm that South Africa is trapped in an economic growth crisis with devasting impacts for South Africans, especially young and black South Africans, hoping to find decent work.
The amendments proposed to South Africa’s rigid retirement fund regime are sensible and timeous. They are sensible because it is non-sensical that South Africans, with skills and experience, in the labour force, resign from their employment in order to access a portion of their retirement funds in times of financial distress. It is timeous because South Africa is in an economic growth crisis, with high costs of living and high interest rates, which is causing severe financial distress.
South Africa has a poverty crisis, an unemployment crisis and a low economic growth crisis. These crises are all linked to each other and the only way we release South Africans from the poverty trap is by growing our economy and creating jobs.
The crime statistics released by Minister of Police Bheki Cele today, for the period October to December 2023, contain no good news.
I am very proud of the team of GOOD activists and canvassers whose tireless work over the past few weeks delivered a stunning result in yesterday’s by-election in Theewaterskloof Ward 10.
GOOD is dismayed - but not surprised - by news that the City of Tshwane could soon have R629 million in conditional grants stripped from it after the municipality failed to spend its expected allocation for the 2023/24 financial year.
The two old powerhouses of South African politics, the ANC and DA, could only muster a combined 48% of the vote in yesterday’s Theewaterskloof by-election.