The DA’s request to replace Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment, Dion George, with the party’s national spokesperson, Willie Aucamp, would place custodianship of South Africa’s environment directly in the hands of the wildlife breeding, trading, and hunting lobby.
Statement by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This is a speech delivered in reply to Premier Alan Winde’s statement to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament on the Ombudsman’s Report on Policing in the Western Cape.
GOOD Party councillor in Swartland, Patricia Dixon, visited families in Kalbaskraal who have been affected by a surge in gang-related killings.
South Africa’s economy is no longer in free fall. The national debt is expected to stabilise at 77.9% after nearly 20 years of accumulation, with the reduction in the inflation target being good news for investors and struggling households.
The past week’s violence has once again torn through our communities, leaving women, children, and families devastated.
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana is expected to highlight several reasons to feel encouraged that South Africa’s stunted economy is on the cusp of a growth phase when he delivers the 2025 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement tomorrow.
In just four days, five women were brutally murdered in Cape Town. These are not isolated tragedies; they are part of a relentless pattern of violence that has become woven into the fabric of our society.
South Africa’s judicial commission investigating decades-long delays in the prosecution of cases recommended for prosecution by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission kicked off its work today with a further delay.
I wrote to the new Western Cape Commissioner for Children today to congratulate her on her appointment, from the beginning of last month, and offered to assist her in developing an action plan focusing on three areas of crisis for children.
The GOOD Party in the Drakenstein Municipality has urgently written to the political and administrative leadership seeking clarity regarding allegations that a municipal traffic warden attempted to extort an Uber driver earlier this year, in June 2025.