DA CONTINUES TO SHUT DOWN DEMOCRACY IN CAPE TOWN COUNCIL
On 4 September 2025, during a Human Settlements Portfolio Committee meeting, I was silenced mid-sentence while raising the urgent concerns of social housing tenants.
Marius van Stade
STELLENBOSCH MUNICIPALITY: TYGERBERG HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS LINKED TO DEVON VALLEY SANITATION CRISIS
The GOOD Party Caucus in Stellenbosch has submitted an urgent appeal to the Municipality to address the appalling sanitation and unhygienic conditions in the Devon Valley Emergency Camp, an informal settlement under municipal jurisdiction.
WESTERN CAPE CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER: OUR CHILDREN NEED A FIERCE PROTECTOR
The GOOD Party welcomes the appointment of Sarah Helena Roberts as the new Western Cape Commissioner for Children. As a member of the Standing Committee that interviewed candidates for this vital role, it was clear to me, and to many others, that Roberts possesses the competence, integrity, and skills required to serve the children of our province with distinction.
DIAL-A-RIDE CRISIS IGNORED BY URBAN MOBILITY DIRECTORATE
The GOOD Party condemns the City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate for refusing to place the Dial-a-Ride crisis on the agenda of tomorrow’s Portfolio Committee on Urban Mobility. Instead of urgently addressing the service cuts already affecting hundreds of residents with severe mobility impairments, the committee has scheduled the matter for discussion only in October, a full month after the City’s own 8 September suspension and restriction of the service takes effect.
WESTERN CAPE’S NHI LAWSUIT: A POLITICAL STUNT TO UNDERMINE TRANSFORMATION
The Western Cape Government is using procedural concerns as a smokescreen to obstruct long-overdue reforms to South Africa’s deeply unequal healthcare system.
Robin Hendrikse
STELLENBOSCH MUNICIPALITY: ALLEGATIONS OF RACIAL PURGING DEMAND URGENT ACTION
The leaked video of a senior Human Resources Manager at the Stellenbosch Municipality, in which he implies that the Municipality should stop appointing white males and should “get rid” of those already employed by any means necessary, is deeply disturbing.
AFRICAN UNION MUST ACT TO PROTECT LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS ACROSS AFRICA
The GOOD Party is deeply concerned by Burkina Faso’s regressive amendments to its Persons and Family Code, passed by the country’s transitional Parliament on 2 September 2025. These amendments criminalise same-sex relations, marking a dangerous step backwards for human rights on the African continent.
CAPE TOWN’S UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS: THE DA CAN’T SPIN THE NUMBERS
According to Stats SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (Q2, 2025), the Western Cape recorded an unemployment rate of 21.1%, compared to the national average of 33.2%. On paper, this appears commendable, the province has consistently reported lower unemployment than the rest of South Africa over the past decade.
YORK HIGH SCHOOL RACISM SAGA IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT, IT’S A SOCIETAL FAILURE
The recent racist incident at York High School in George , where a learner used the N-word against another pupil, is not an isolated case.
SANTACO MUST LEAD IN BRINGING WARRING CAPE TAXI ASSOCIATIONS TO ORDER
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) must take urgent steps to extinguish the taxi war in Cape Town that reignited this week, just days after what appeared to be a constructive peace summit. Three people were shot dead and six wounded in two separate incidents, in Philippi East and Khayelitsha, this week.
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