GOOD statement by Lulama Benge ,GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor & GOOD National Leadership Council Representative Sports & Culture 14 November 2024 As the GOOD Party, we have noted…
Over the next three years, the Western Cape Government will not spend R8 Billion of the funds it receives from the national treasury for education on education, leaving it with a R3.79 Billion education shortfall and “forcing” it to fire thousands of teachers.
SASSA is the responsibility of national government. Its performance negatively impacts vulnerable citizens across the country, including in the Western Cape. It makes more sense for us to debate what we should be doing – which we have the powers to do – to reduce unemployment and dependency on SASSA.
The GOOD Party calls on the Swartland Municipality to intervene and stop the looming evictions of victims of the Riverlands Dam tragedy.
The GOOD Party calls on the City of Cape Town to review its policy of only issuing one bin for three public housing flat units and social housing and or flats.
The GOOD Party calls Joburg Water and Rand Water to take a communication tip from the electricity crisis playbook and initiate immediate, comprehensive and daily water updates.
South Africa’s unemployment rate decreases marginally by 1.4 percentage points to 32.1% in Q3:2024. And although any improvement should be celebrated, the reality is this number remains stubbornly high.
The GOOD Party congratulates GOOD councillor Weldon Wells on his election as the Speaker of Theewaterskloof municipality and GOOD councillor Cynthia Clayton on her election (unopposed) as Deputy Mayor.
The GOOD Party firmly supports call on the South African government by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy organisations in Cape Town to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel, and advocate for a package of boycott, divestment and sanctions similar to those that forced the apartheid State into talking.
Thirty years after the transition from apartheid to democracy, in the midst of a spate of child deaths blamed on the sale of contaminated and/or old food, government has promulgated legislation to regulate township businesses. The Standard Draft By-Law for Township Economies has been in the works for some time and is therefore not a knee-jerk reaction to the recent poisoning incidents.