GOOD party will support the Mayor’s efforts to get an efficient rail service but there are transport solutions within his government’s powers that he is leapfrogging in order to pick a fight he is not yet ready for.
GOOD calls on the Gauteng Premier and the Education Department to crack down on unregistered schools.
If the mayor and members of his mayoral committee are involved in brown envelope dealings they must not be protected by their political party, they must face the full might of the law.
The GOOD Party calls on the ministers of Police and Justice to reflect on our history and find the means to build credible and apolitical police and prosecutorial services (arguably for the first time since South Africa’s colonisation) to honour those who lost limbs and lives at Marikana 11 years ago.
GOOD calls on the State to commit to implementing a Basic Income Grant to support the millions of unemployed people in our country.
The GOOD Party notes the decision by the Electoral Commission of South Africa rejecting our objection to the result of the George by-elections held on 18 and 19 July 2023.
The GOOD Party is disappointed by the Speaker’s decision however we do acknowledge her agreement to allow the council to debate the issue for an hour on the 24th of August, during an Ordinary Council meeting.
As GOOD we are calling for the DA-led city to hold their DA colleagues accountable so that history does not repeat itself.
GOOD calls for a speedy resolution to his corruption trial so that the people of South Africa can finally have justice and closure on this long outstanding issue.
Mayor Cilliers Brink maintains the city cannot afford the increase that is estimated to cost R600-million. And as GOOD we do not deny this, the state of the city’s finances is dire. But what the DA mayor has failed to acknowledge is that it is the DA’s history of leadership in the city that landed us in this situation.