The Orwellian over regulation of the City of Cape Town has just taken its next step by telling residents they may no longer feed wild birds in their own gardens. Only caged animals qualify. Free birds, apparently, are a bylaw violation. And if you feed these birds, you are at risk of facing a penalty.
The Public Protector's Report, released today, confirms in binding, constitutional terms what residents of Langa Flats and Khayelitsha have said for years: that the DA-run City of Cape Town has failed to deliver the basic municipal services it is constitutionally obliged to provide.
The City of Cape Town must apply the humiliating lessons it received from the Constitutional Court in the Tafelberg School matter last week to its proposed sale of the iconic Good Hope Centre.
In July 2017, in my capacity as City of Cape Town Mayco member for Transport and Urban Development, I announced the identification of 10 City-owned sites in the inner city, Salt River and Woodstock “to be used for affordable housing”.
The recent Tafelberg judgment reaffirmed that meaningful public participation is not a box-ticking exercise when decisions are made about public land. Residents must have a real opportunity to be heard before decisions are effectively finalised.
The Constitutional Court has dismantled a central pillar of the DA’s policy to maintain spatial injustice in Cape Town, ordering that the fact that public land has a high value should not preclude it from being used to address governments’ constitutional obligations to transformation.
Madam Speaker, this report is tabled to inform the Council of the irregular, unauthorised, fruitless, and wasteful expenditure identified during the 2024/2025 financial year.
Speaker, where you live matters. It matters because where you live often determines whether investment comes to your community, whether development is encouraged or delayed, and whether opportunities are created or remain out of reach.
The GOOD Party says the City of Cape Town's 2026/27 budget, expected to be approved by the DA majority on 29 June 2026, will deepen the financial pressure on ordinary households.
The GOOD Party Caucus on the City of Cape Town Council condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the killing of Sinovuyo Dyokwe, a Dunoon community activist and Democratic Alliance ward candidate, who was gunned down on Saturday a day after spending the day registering voters during Registration Weekend.