I have advised the City of Cape Town’s Municipal Manager Lungelo Mbandazayo that I won’t be able to assist his witch-hunt into who leaked information to me on the costs the City is incurring to defend its alleged criminal councillor, Nora Grose (DA).
A DA Ward Councillor and Sub-Council Chairperson today chaired a Sub-Council meeting, just days after he appeared in court on charges of rape and sexual assault.
Mayor of Swellendam Francois du Rand narrowly averted members of his own party bringing a motion of no confidence against him yesterday, after the councillor set to propose the motion was apparently called by DA leader Helen Zille in the morning and asked to withdraw it. The motion would have carried because it was supported by all four DA councillors of colour in the municipality (the DA holds a total of six seats in the 11-member council).
More than 28 years after the demise of apartheid, a special fund set up to pay reparations to victims of human rights violations remains largely unspent.
Residents of Hanover Park and Manenberg is set to again see the roll out of the City of Cape Town’s gunshot detection system - ShotSpotter - despite very poor results in its use to fight crime.
The GOOD party in the Western Cape welcomes the decision from the Western Cape Education Department to make available 500 permanent primary school teacher posts in the Grade R phase.
The GOOD party welcomes the appointment of the new Eskom board at a critical time in South Africa.
The GOOD party welcomes the arrests of several people in Nelson Mandela Bay including the tainted acting city manager, Noxolo Nqwazi and ANC regional secretary, Luyolo Nqakula.
The Democratic Alliance’s announcement that it is climbing into bed with the Cape Independence Party, Afriforum, FF+, ACDP, Action Society, Saai, the Kaapse Forum and the Cape Independence Advocacy Group reveals its true values and objectives.
Colonial and apartheid land grabs, never reversed, are a major contributing factor to the state of acute inequality in our land today.