GOOD REJECTS DA’S MISLEADING CLAIMS ON THEEWATERSKLOOF FINANCES
The DA claims that parties including GOOD helped create financial instability in Theewaterskloof Municipality and that the Western Cape Government was forced to intervene in 2024.
The DA claims that parties including GOOD helped create financial instability in Theewaterskloof Municipality and that the Western Cape Government was forced to intervene in 2024.
The killing of seven people in a pair of mass shootings on the Cape Flats on Wednesday night once again gruesomely underlines the tale of two mutually exclusive Cape Towns: One that wins global awards as among the finest places on earth, and the other where living conditions and public safety are on a par with the worst and most dangerous ghettoes in the world.
The Orwellian over regulation of the City of Cape Town has just taken its next step by telling residents they may no longer feed wild birds in their own gardens. Only caged animals qualify. Free birds, apparently, are a bylaw violation. And if you feed these birds, you are at risk of facing a penalty.
Tony Leon’s lobbying of politicians on behalf of private sector clients cannot be termed “State Capture” unless it can be proven that his clients were inordinately successful in winning government tenders or dictating government policy.
The GOOD Party in Stellenbosch commends the swift actions of the South African Police Service (SAPS) following Sunday’s dramatic shootout at a chain store in Newinbosch, which resulted in the arrest of five-armed suspects linked to an attempted business robbery.
The Public Protector's Report, released today, confirms in binding, constitutional terms what residents of Langa Flats and Khayelitsha have said for years: that the DA-run City of Cape Town has failed to deliver the basic municipal services it is constitutionally obliged to provide.
The City of Cape Town must apply the humiliating lessons it received from the Constitutional Court in the Tafelberg School matter last week to its proposed sale of the iconic Good Hope Centre.
In July 2017, in my capacity as City of Cape Town Mayco member for Transport and Urban Development, I announced the identification of 10 City-owned sites in the inner city, Salt River and Woodstock “to be used for affordable housing”.
The recent Tafelberg judgment reaffirmed that meaningful public participation is not a box-ticking exercise when decisions are made about public land. Residents must have a real opportunity to be heard before decisions are effectively finalised.
The Constitutional Court has dismantled a central pillar of the DA’s policy to maintain spatial injustice in Cape Town, ordering that the fact that public land has a high value should not preclude it from being used to address governments’ constitutional obligations to transformation.