Sixty years after District Six was declared a “whites only” area, followed by the catastrophic forced removal of 60,000 people, mostly to the Cape Flats, the process of restitution and redress is making painfully slow progress.
On this anniversary of Youth Day half a century later, we must pause and reflect on the core message behind the tragedy of the Soweto Uprising. The battle against exclusion.
Today, 16 June, we remember the courage, resilience, and determination of the youth who stood against oppression, injustice, and the brutality of the apartheid regime.
The GOOD Party has exposed a web of shifting excuses and bureaucratic buck-passing by the City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate regarding the collapse of MyCiTi card-loading services in Walmer Estate.
On 14 May 2026 the GOOD Party engaged political and executive leadership of the Public Safety Portfolio Committee after receiving a complaint from a community member regarding the cleaning of the Berg River.
The City of Cape Town must stop hiding behind its alleged Good Hope Centre auction review process, swallow its pride, cancel the ridiculously inappropriate sale, pay whatever penalties are due, and publicly commit to using the precinct as a mixed-use development including affordable housing.
On Tuesday, 9 June 2026, the Democratic Alliance (DA) placed a Western Cape Constitution Amendment Bill on the agenda of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament for consideration today.
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & City of Cape Town Mayoral Candidate. *Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Provincial Parliament sitting on the proposed amendments to the Western Cape Land Use Planning Act (LUPA).
There is no rule, no law, no parliamentary provision that requires a Member of this House to route oversight visits through the very office we are tasked with holding accountable. None.
We are facing an education crisis, and we are not treating it like one. Just yesterday I met with a community in Wesbank.