SPEECH, Brett Herron: Launch Of The Basic Income Grant Campaign

Let’s spin this question around.  Instead of asking if we can afford to have a Basic Income Grant, ask if we can afford not to have one. Can we afford to leave 8 million unemployed South Africans in a severe state of hunger, failing in our constitutional obligations and increasing the levels of anger and desperation in our society?

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GOOD Calls On Johannesburg To Review Business Plans And Stop Burdening Residents With Revenue Collection Failures

GOOD is hopeful that the R80,9 billion City of Joburg budget will start to resolve the long-standing issues of infrastructure decay across all service interfacing Municipal Owned Entities but disagrees that rate payers should suffer hefty increases to recoup from the major revenue losses.

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NHI Bill: Debate Should Not Be Weaponized For Political Gains, South Africans Deserve Equal Health Services

The National Health Insurance Bill isn’t perfect. But the principle it represents is too important to be reduced to another battleground for rightist anti-transformation zealots and Gucci revolutionaries to spew identity politics.

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Failed Gupta Extradition: Failure To Provide All South Africans With Justice

  Four days after we were told, in April, that South Africa’s application for the extradition from the UAE of the Gupta brothers had failed, I submitted a request to the Speaker in terms of Rule 130 of the National Assembly Rules for a debate on an urgent matter of public importance.

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - 2 March 2011: Indian businessmen, Ajay Gupta (R) and younger brother Atul Gupta at a one on one interview with Business Day in Johannesburg, South Africa on 2 March 2011 regarding their professional relationships. (Photo by Gallo Images/Business Day/Martin Rhodes)

Parliamentarians To Finally Have Their Say On Gupta Extradition Farce

Parliament will tomorrow debate an Urgent Matter of National Public Importance introduced by Brett Herron MP on behalf of the GOOD Party.

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