Let me be clear from the outset: The GOOD Party has no issue with the upgrading of Plattner Boulevard. On the contrary, the upgrading and maintenance of municipal infrastructure is one of the GOOD Party's core priorities. Good roads mean good economics.
I rise on the item dealing with Hansmoeskraal 1, 2 and 3 in George.Speaker, we must be clear on one principle: In South African law, Municipal Property is Public Property. What is municipal property? It is any immovable asset owned by the municipality - land, buildings, servitudes, commonages. In this case, Hansmoeskraal 1, 2 and 3.
Conradie Park was meant to be the proof of concept. The Minister has just given us the brochure. I would like to give this House the tenancy agreement.
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of Western Cape Parliament. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament during the Interpellation Debate on Tuberculosis (TB)
For 70 years, the rhythm of life in Tulbagh has been the rhythm of the fruit season. That factory was never just a workplace, it was the town's economy, its history, its inheritance passed from parent to child.
The provincial government's responsibilities in addressing the Western Cape's housing crisis, dismantling apartheid-era spatial planning and tackling the affordability crisis, and the progress the province has made in meeting these objectives.
Speech by Wesley Neumann, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Ordinary Council Meeting of the City of Cape Town
The Auditor-General’s latest findings require this Council to be honest about the state of governance in the City. While the administration may correctly state that it received an unqualified audit opinion, residents must understand that an unqualified audit is not the same as a clean audit.
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.