According to the government, adult South Africans need R868 a month (or about R29 a day) to buy enough food to meet an adult’s required daily energy intake. But the government grant for unemployed adults is just R370 a month (about R12 a day).
GOOD Stellenbosch wishes to make its position clear following the Stellenbosch Municipal Council meeting of 25 August 2026, where GOOD abstained from voting on the proposed three-month extension of the Municipal Manager’s contract.
Violent and organised crime in South Africa have skyrocketed since Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings nearly 30 years ago revealed the existence of shadowy relationships between apartheid-era security forces and criminal gangs, and the manufacture of large quantities of street drugs by the then-State’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme.
A study on free basic service provision commissioned by the Western Cape Department of Local Government glibly claims that the province is broadly compliant with national guidelines, with Cape Town the most indigent-friendly municipality of the lot.
GOOD Speech by Rosa Louw, GOOD Garden Route District Municipality Councillor 25 August 2026 Note to Editors: This speech was delivered during the Adjustment Budget 2026/2027 council meeting at the…
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde and Mayor of Cape Town Geordin Hill-Lewis say the province’s 680 000 housing backlog, and increasing unaffordability, are products of inward migration due to their superb management.
A prime chunk of Milnerton real estate acquired nine years ago by the City of Cape Town specifically to alleviate overcrowding in Dunoon is now being sold to a private developer for a fat profit without the City having built a single home.
On the face of it, AfriForum and the MK Party had nothing in common besides a taste for litigation to vent their disdain for the policies of South Africa’s government – before anti-immigrant organisation March & March raised its profile and befriended both.
Cape Town’s water crisis is no longer a distant possibility. It is an escalating future risk that will fall hardest on poor and indigent communities unless urgent planning, affordability protections and supply interventions are put in place now.
The GOOD Party welcomes the City of Cape Town’s updated Road Safety Strategy and supports its adoption, particularly its recognition that road deaths are not simply caused by individual behaviour but are the result of a wider transport system that must protect all road users.