I want to talk about a lie we tell ourselves in this country and in this province. We say South Africa is being rebuilt. We say communities are being held together. We say families are surviving, adapting, enduring.
When the City of Cape Town announced it was disposing of the Bellville Velodrome, Africa’s only Olympic-standard indoor cycling track, it sought to placate cyclists by announcing the redevelopment of the cycling track at Vygieskraal Stadium.
Today, as we celebrate Women’s Month, GOOD Stellenbosch had the privilege of visiting and blessing the incredible women at Safe House.
GOOD Party Councillor Marius van Stade has today submitted a formal Notice of Question to the Municipal Manager, in terms of Rule 35.1 of the Standing Rules and Orders of Stellenbosch Municipal Council
Instead of drafting a short-term letting by-law designed to contribute to alleviating the crisis of unaffordability in the Cape Town housing market, the only beneficiary of the proposed by-law is the City itself, which will increase its income by charging slightly higher rates.
GOOD Oudtshoorn remains committed to stability, good governance, and the delivery of quality services to the people of Oudtshoorn, particularly the poor and vulnerable communities who rely on an effective and accountable local government.
The leadership of Cape Town’s Energy Portfolio Committee is actively dodging transparency by hiding a massive 174 MW bulk electricity allocation for private data centres completely off the committee’s agenda.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s announcement that the City of Cape Town has declared an intergovernmental dispute with the Acting Minister of Police Professor Firoz Cachalia over Metro Police investigative powers is pure electioneering hot air.
Last week, Western Cape MEC for Infrastructure Tertuis Simmers was at it again, making a fantabulous announcement about delivering around 12 000 new homes.
GOOD Stellenbosch is deeply concerned by the alarming increase in burglaries, robberies and violent crime affecting residents of Hillside Village and the greater Idas Valley community.