Statement by MPL Brett Herron delivered to the Western Cape Provincial Legislature on the 3rd December 2019.

GOOD welcomes the National Department of Water and Sanitation’s new Water Master Plan for South Africa. 

Today, in partnership with the SA Women’s Shelter Network I hosted a golf day to raise funds for the network which helps women who are victims of gender-violence.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD EMBRACE ITS OBLIGATION TO SPATIAL JUSTICE INSTEAD OF HAIR-SPLITTING TECHNICAL LEGAL ARGUMENTS

*Province Budget shows that it will be funding less than 40% of the Premier’s promised “R1 billion per year” Safety Plan*.

*Funding is being cut from Early Childhood Development, Drug Rehabilitation Programmes and the Education Budget*.

MYCITI SERVICES TO KHAYELITSHA AND MITCHELLS PLAIN REMAIN PARKED.

ARMAGEDDON IS LOOMING WHILE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IS DELINQUENT. HEADS SHOULD ROLL.

 GOOD is dismayed about the high proportion of failed agricultural projects. Outside Mooi River in KZN, 54 of 57 land restitution farms are reportedly no longer operational. 

We cannot afford to continue to bailout our failing SOEs.

I join Minister Maynier in congratulating the previous administration’s good audit outcomes and appreciate his concern with spiralling national debt, but half his speech seemed to be aimed at the National, not Provincial Parliament. He needs to focus on his new job, which is this province.

GOOD welcomes the announcement from Carbon Brief that 2019 will likely see the largest ever drop in global electricity production from coal.