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.

The White Paper for Human Settlements presented to Parliament’s Human Settlements Portfolio Committee today undermines the rights of South Africans to adequate housing.

We don’t believe that the fabric of South African society can tolerate mediocre State management for much longer before ripping apart.

As Cape Town prepares to commemorate Pride this month, GOOD mourns the death of 21-year-old Diego Jacobs, a gay man who was stabbed to death in a suspected hate crime.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address in Cape Town tonight sought to calibrate the gains of the post-apartheid society, which cannot be denied, with the widely held belief that South Africa should have done much better.

The real trouble we face lies in the extent to which the democratic state has proven incapable of using the fruits of democracy to nourish those who were cast to the margins under colonial and apartheid governments.