GOOD Statement by Weldon Wells,
GOOD Theewaterskloof Municipality Councillor & Speaker
10 July 2026
The GOOD Party rejects the misinformation recently shared by the Democratic Alliance on social media.
The DA claims that parties including GOOD helped create financial instability in Theewaterskloof Municipality and that the Western Cape Government was forced to intervene in 2024.
Let us set the record straight. GOOD councillors were only inaugurated in November 2024. The first attempt to present the 2023/24 unauthorised expenditure to MPAC was halted because MPAC had composition challenges after its chairperson resigned in June 2024. A new chairperson was only appointed on 28 November 2024.
When MPAC considered the matter on 11 June 2025, it referred the unauthorised expenditure for a Section 106 investigation. GOOD voted with its coalition partners, including the DA, in support of an investigation. Any claim that GOOD refused to support an investigation is therefore false.
On 5 February 2026, MPAC received further clarity from the administration. It was explained that the irregular expenditure had already been reported to SAPS, that the unauthorised expenditure arose from miscalculations linked to the absence of an acceptable adjustment budget, and that services had been rendered, certified, and value for money received.
MPAC then recommended that unauthorised expenditure of R104 357 068 for 2022/23 and R49 370 445 for 2023/24 be written off, as there was no reason to suspect fraud, Council suffered no loss, and there were no grounds for a claim against any official. The proposal was made by DA councillor PJ Stander and seconded by DA councillor D Jacobs.
Council accepted MPAC’s recommendation. GOOD councillors are not representatives on MPAC, so the DA’s attempt to shift responsibility is false and misleading.
Following Council’s decision, Western Cape Minister of Finance Deidré Baartman wrote to the Speaker after allegations were raised that due process had not been followed and that the MPAC report may have misrepresented whether the matter had properly served before MPAC in terms of section 32 of the MFMA.
The Speaker immediately engaged MPAC members and the finance department and responded in writing. After the Minister requested that Council reconsider and rescind its decision, Council resolved to do so and referred the items back to MPAC for proper investigation. Four related items were also referred to the disciplinary board.
The DA must stop misleading the public and take responsibility for recommendations made by its own MPAC councillors, instead of trying to score political points against its coalition partners.
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