WHAT DO MARCH & MARCH’S RELATIONSHIPS WITH AFRIFORUM AND MK MEAN?
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 RISING WATER COSTS WILL PUNISH THE POOR
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.
GOOD PARTY WELCOMES CAPE TOWN ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY BUT WARNS- A STRATEGY WITHOUT FUNDING WILL NOT SAVE LIVES
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.
WHERE YOU LIVE MATTERS: GOOD CALLS OUT HOUSING FAILURE IN THE WESTERN CAPE
The provincial government’s responsibilities in addressing the Western Cape’s housing crisis, dismantling apartheid-era spatial planning and tackling the affordability crisis, and the progress the province has made in meeting these objectives.
GOOD SUPPORTS TRANSFER OF ATLANTIS THUSONG CENTRE TO WESTERN CAPE GOVERNMENT
Speech by Wesley Neumann, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Ordinary Council Meeting of the City of Cape Town
AUDIT FINDINGS MUST BE A WAKE-UP CALL FOR SERVICE DELIVERY
The Auditor-General’s latest findings require this Council to be honest about the state of governance in the City. While the administration may correctly state that it received an unqualified audit opinion, residents must understand that an unqualified audit is not the same as a clean audit.
GOOD CALLS FOR JUSTICE FOLLOWING KILLING OF CLLR AUBREY TSENGWA
The GOOD Party expresses its profound sadness at the tragic passing of Cllr Aubrey Tsengwa, former Mayor of Knysna and a serving ANC Ward Councillor and leader, who was fatally shot last night.
COST-SAVING CANNOT BE A CONVENIENCE. GOOD REJECTS SPEAKER’S DINNER
The GOOD Caucus will attend the City of Cape Town Council meeting today, 20 August 2026 because councillors have a responsibility to be in Council and do the work for which residents elected them.
13 YEARS AFTER DEVASTATING KHAYELITSHA FIRE: NO LAND, NO HOMES, NO PLAN
The fire that ripped through the informal settlement known as BM Section on New Year’s Day in 2013 killed five residents, destroyed about 1,000 shacks and left 3,000–4,000 people without any shelter.
DA’S MARK BURKE MUST BE WITHDRAWN FROM PARLIAMENT’S FINANCE OVERSIGHT STRUCTURES
DA Federal Finance Chairperson, funder and MP, Mark Burke, is unfit to serve on Parliament’s Standing Committees on Finance and/or Appropriations and Public Accounts.
GOOD CALLS ON DA TO IMMEDIATELY HALT SALE OF PUBLIC LAND
The DA-led Garden Route District Municipality must immediately stop its plans to sell 19 municipal properties, including 12 in the greater George area.
DA CAN’T PRIVATISE STATE’S CONSITUTIONAL DUTIES TO EFFECT SOCIAL JUSTICE
The DA is on a privatisation roll, dismissing its constitutional obligations to address spatial injustice, selling off well-located publicly owned properties in Cape Town, and championing the out-sourcing of basic service provision in dysfunctional municipalities.
GOOD PARTY DELIVERS ON SPATIAL JUSTICE: LOUWVILLE HOUSING HANDOVER MARKS A MILESTONE FOR DIGNIFIED LIVING IN SALDANHA BAY
This handover is a profound realisation of the GOOD Party’s core vision and mission to advance social and spatial justice for working-class families. By delivering dignified shelter, we are actively dismantling spatial inequalities and building inclusive communities where citizens are empowered.
EVOLVE MADLANGA COMMISSION INTO PERMANENT NATIONAL POLICE INTEGRITY TRIBUNAL
The Madlanga Commission model combining investigators, lawyers, powers to subpoena, televised proceedings and accelerated prosecutions, should be applied to alleged police/law enforcement/gangster collusion across the country – not least in gang-ravaged Cape Town.
LAND RELEASES MEAN LITTLE WHILE HOUSING DELIVERY FALLS
This province, like this city, is still living two realities: the well-serviced suburb, and the informal settlement on the urban edge, still waiting for water, sanitation, and a formal address decades after apartheid planning put it there.