GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General 12 March 2025 ✔️ Minimal/No income or company tax increases✔️ Minimal/No increased borrowing✔️ SRD grant retained✔️ Waste assessments for departments✔️ Funds to SARS to…
The GOOD party believes the decision to postpone yesterday’s Budget speech was a mature decision by members of the Government of National Unity and will be in the best interests of the people.
Today’s Budget postponement is a direct result of the Government of National Unity parties not being adequately consulted before the National Treasury presented the proposed budget to the Political Parties Leaders’ Forum. Coalition governing is about seeking consensus.
South Africa’s economy is at a crossroads: There’s a shortage of revenue, little room to increase already steep income and company tax without pushing the middle class over the edge, and a crisis of poverty that if left unaddressed threatens the sustainability of the constitutional democracy.
GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General 17 February 2025 In a sea of competing needs, with little wriggle room due to lethargic economic growth, the State can either continue spreading…
The GOOD Party welcome the President’s commitment to the founding principles contained in the Government of National Unity, Statement of Intent – to reduce poverty, reduce the cost of living and address the indignity in which many of our people live. However, we must acknowledge that regardless of all the noise, both locally and internationally, South Africa has constitutional and moral obligations to transform society, narrow inequality and create a nation in which all citizens have a stake.
President Cyril Ramaphosa walked a coalition tightrope in his State of the Nation Address tonight, balancing the urgent need to address abnormal rates of poverty and inequality with the needs of the business sector for a stable environment conducive to economic growth.
GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General 05 February 2025 The GOOD Party welcomes the 4.4% increase in minimum wage as a necessary step toward ensuring dignity, fairness, and economic justice…
If GOOD were to highlight a particular crisis that South Africa needs to hear from the president about, it is how his government intends to address poverty. We cannot have a government that ignores its own National Treasury's concession that there are 18 million South Africans who live below the food poverty line.
The GOOD Party calls on the Government of National Unity to implement the instructions of the Gauteng High Court to increase the value of the Social Relief of Distress Grant and extend it to all qualifying citizens in compliance with the Constitution.