Yesterday we learned that 10 people were murdered in Cape Town over the weekend, and that 170 shooting incidents were recorded in one two-hour period.

The GOOD leadership welcomes the election of GOOD Councillor Katriena Robyn as Witzenberg Executive Mayor who will now lead the new coalition in cleaning up the Municipality.

We therefore welcome the order delivered in the Western Cape High Court on Friday against Maimane, who has been ordered to pay a total of over R475,000 in damages for defamation to us and some of our former colleagues.

The GOOD Party welcomes the crackdown, by SARS, on what is understood to be a sophisticated criminal syndicate of alleged coal-smugglers who have played a major role in exacerbating the energy crisis.

The GOOD Party in the West Coast District strongly condemns the recent attacks on women who continue to live in fear in their own homes and communities.

The Palestinian civilian population is paying the price, again, for the world’s failure to implement the two-state solution upholding the equal rights and sovereignty of both Israel and Palestine.

The Western Cape High Court’s ruling today that Imam Abdullah Haron was murdered by apartheid police in 1969 is very welcome, but it comes too late for anyone responsible for his death or the cover-up that followed to be held accountable because they are dead.

The GOOD Party calls for calm and order in the community of Malmesbury where senseless violence over the weekend claimed the lives of at least three people.

Aunty Pat was once the spearhead of another bubbling new generation that wanted to disrupt the status quo and secure a fairer and just future for her compatriots. Along with many other heroes of our nation, she won that fight.

This is the speech that was delivered by GOOD National Chairperson Sam Shabane, during today's Proactive Disclosure of Information on Elections in Africa seminar hosted by the IEC and other partners in Pretoria.