The GOOD Caucus will attend the City of Cape Town Council meeting today, 20 August 2026 because councillors have a responsibility to be in Council and do the work for which residents elected them.
The fire that ripped through the informal settlement known as BM Section on New Year's Day in 2013 killed five residents, destroyed about 1,000 shacks and left 3,000–4,000 people without any shelter.
DA Federal Finance Chairperson, funder and MP, Mark Burke, is unfit to serve on Parliament’s Standing Committees on Finance and/or Appropriations and Public Accounts.
The DA is on a privatisation roll, dismissing its constitutional obligations to address spatial injustice, selling off well-located publicly owned properties in Cape Town, and championing the out-sourcing of basic service provision in dysfunctional municipalities.
This handover is a profound realisation of the GOOD Party’s core vision and mission to advance social and spatial justice for working-class families. By delivering dignified shelter, we are actively dismantling spatial inequalities and building inclusive communities where citizens are empowered.
The Madlanga Commission model combining investigators, lawyers, powers to subpoena, televised proceedings and accelerated prosecutions, should be applied to alleged police/law enforcement/gangster collusion across the country – not least in gang-ravaged Cape Town.
This province, like this city, is still living two realities: the well-serviced suburb, and the informal settlement on the urban edge, still waiting for water, sanitation, and a formal address decades after apartheid planning put it there.
Speaker, I thank the Minister for his reply, but I did not hear an answer. I heard a description of process. What this House needed was an explanation of failure.
GOOD Stellenbosch is deeply concerned that decisions taken by the Stellenbosch Municipal Council have placed Jamestown’s historic farmlands, small-scale farmers, and water security under growing development pressure.
National Treasury’s decision to appeal a Pretoria High Court ruling ordering government to increase and expand access to the Social Relief of Distress Grant is a disgraceful denial of the State’s constitutional obligations to provide income support to destitute people.