CAPE TOWN’S TAPS AND TOILET NUMBERS FLATTER TO DECEIVE
If you didn’t know, for instance, that more than 400 000 Western Cape households are located in diabolical conditions in informal settlements, the vast majority in Cape Town, and that approximately 100 000 new residents migrate to Cape Town per year, you may be tempted to believe that the City’s announcement this week that it has delivered 815 taps and 6 505 toilets in 2025/26 is worth celebrating.
UCT SHOULD DISTANCE ITSELF FROM MEMBERS OF ITS COUNCIL CHEERLEADING WHITE RIGHT IN WASHINGTON DC
Two of the five South Africans who addressed the White Cross Project Conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC last Friday are members of the University of Cape Town’s Council.
GOOD Party terminates Sarah Mabotsa’s membership and removes her as a Councillor
GOOD’s leadership has informed the Executive Mayor and City Manager of the City of Tshwane that Sarah Mabotsa’s membership of the party has been terminated, and that she should be removed as a Councillor and therefore as the MMC for Economic Development.
“ONS SAL ALTYD SWAARKRY”: SIXTEEN DEAD, AND GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE STOPPED TRYING
We extend our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in this weekend’s horrific events. We also acknowledge the injustice of all the loss, and injury, families and communities have been left to endure.
GOOD OPPOSES DA’S ELECTORAL COURT BID, WHILE QUERYING HELEN ZILLE’S RIGHT TO STAND AS MAYOR OF JOHANNESBURG
The GOOD Party today filed its answering affidavit opposing the DA’s application in the Electoral Court to declare its candidate list unlawful.
OUR NATIONAL HERITAGE IS MORE VALUABLE THAN A BRAAI
The intended meaning of Heritage Day, to acknowledge and celebrate South Africa’s cultural diversity, has been hijacked and diminished by the cultural and commercial interests of the middle-class braai brigade.
UNCONSCIONABLE PROFIT: LAND BOUGHT WITH NATIONAL FUNDS TO HOUSE POOR PEOPLE SOLD TO PRIVATE DEVELOPER
The City of Cape Town has confirmed in response to an application under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) that it used special funds earmarked to build homes for poor people to pay for a piece of land in Milnerton which it is now selling for a R71m profit to a private developer.
“POOR SPORTS FACILITIES FOR POOR PEOPLE”, CAPE TOWN’S OWN DOCUMENTS REVEAL
Documents obtained from the City of Cape Town under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) confirm that the City’s Sport Asset Management Policy, launched with much fanfare in 2022, has effectively been abandoned.
SELF HARM: UNDERMINING FOUNDATIONS OF SA’S PEACEFUL POST-APARTHEID SETTLEMENT WON’T SERVE MINORITIES WELL
Right-wing South Africans feeding the false narrative of White persecution are strengthening the hand of populist political parties who believe the Constitution is skewed towards the protection of minority rights and property.
SALT RIVER MARKET HOUSING PROJECT: 18 YEARS LATER – STILL NO BRICKS, LET ALONE HOUSING
Today the Democratic Alliance leader, and Mayor of Cape Town, Geordin Hill-Lewis, reannounced the release of the Salt River Market site to Communicare for a mixed-income development, including social and affordable housing.
TWO CITIES THAT MUST BECOME ONE
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD City of Cape Town Mayoral Candidate. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered at the GOOD party’s City of Cape Town Manifesto Launch.
MIXED SIGNALS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS CAPE TOWN’S DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF REPORT TO CONCOURT LOOMS
With two weeks left to report to the Constitutional Court on its “management” of the affordable housing crisis in Cape Town, the Mayor is talking up a storm about densifying the Southern Suburbs, with no actual plans in place, while the City has quietly signed an eight-year lease extension for King David Mowbray Golf Club.
KEMPTON PARK FEMICIDE: TELLING WOMEN WHAT TO DO DOESN’T STOP PREDATORY MEN
Seven women are dead, but the messages we keep sending are wrong.
GOOD DEMANDS INTERNAL AUDIT INTO ALLEGED FAMILY CONNECTIONS AT DRAKENSTEIN MUNICIPALITY
The GOOD Party calls on the DA-led Drakenstein Municipality to open its books and subject its recruitment processes to an internal audit to determine the extent of family relationships among municipal employees.
COMPARING GUN-TOTING IAN CAMERON TO RAMBO AND PIET RETIEF WAS FAIR POLITICAL COMMENT
On Friday, the GOOD Party received a curt letter from the Western Cape Provincial Legislature’s Appeals Committee setting aside the findings of its Conduct Committee against Brett Herron MPL relating to a statement concerning the behaviour of DA MP Ian Cameron.