The City of Cape Town must apply the humiliating lessons it received from the Constitutional Court in the Tafelberg School matter last week to its proposed sale of the iconic Good Hope Centre.
In July 2017, in my capacity as City of Cape Town Mayco member for Transport and Urban Development, I announced the identification of 10 City-owned sites in the inner city, Salt River and Woodstock “to be used for affordable housing”.
The recent Tafelberg judgment reaffirmed that meaningful public participation is not a box-ticking exercise when decisions are made about public land. Residents must have a real opportunity to be heard before decisions are effectively finalised.
The Constitutional Court has dismantled a central pillar of the DA’s policy to maintain spatial injustice in Cape Town, ordering that the fact that public land has a high value should not preclude it from being used to address governments’ constitutional obligations to transformation.
The GOOD Party is deeply concerned by the unlawful actions of some community members in Villiersdorp who broke into spaza shops with the intention of stealing this morning.
The City of Cape Town is making it progressively less affordable for ordinary residents to live here, by choice, while its own books show it doesn't need to.
The GOOD Party notes the release of the Auditor‑General's latest local government audit outcomes and cautions against any attempt to portray the City of Cape Town's audit outcome as a "clean audit".
The GOOD Party welcomes the City of Cape Town's decision to finally restore MyCiTi card-loading services in Walmer Estate following sustained pressure, oversight, and direct intervention by the party.
The GOOD Party says the City of Cape Town's 2026/27 budget, expected to be approved by the DA majority on 29 June 2026, will deepen the financial pressure on ordinary households.
The GOOD Party Caucus on the City of Cape Town Council condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the killing of Sinovuyo Dyokwe, a Dunoon community activist and Democratic Alliance ward candidate, who was gunned down on Saturday a day after spending the day registering voters during Registration Weekend.