GOOD Party City of Cape Town Councillor Wesley Neumann has reaffirmed his support for the Save Gilray Committee and its vision to preserve the historic Gilray Scout Site as a community asset for future generations.
Sixty years after District Six was declared a “whites only” area, followed by the catastrophic forced removal of 60,000 people, mostly to the Cape Flats, the process of restitution and redress is making painfully slow progress.
The GOOD Party has exposed a web of shifting excuses and bureaucratic buck-passing by the City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate regarding the collapse of MyCiTi card-loading services in Walmer Estate.
The City of Cape Town must stop hiding behind its alleged Good Hope Centre auction review process, swallow its pride, cancel the ridiculously inappropriate sale, pay whatever penalties are due, and publicly commit to using the precinct as a mixed-use development including affordable housing.
There is no rule, no law, no parliamentary provision that requires a Member of this House to route oversight visits through the very office we are tasked with holding accountable. None.
We are facing an education crisis, and we are not treating it like one. Just yesterday I met with a community in Wesbank.
It is International Day of Play today but most of Cape Town’s children don’t have safe places to play. Play is not a luxury. It should not be reserved for rich kids or poor kids; it is essential to all children’s physical, emotional and social development.
On Tuesday, Deputy Executive Mayor Thyrone Williams and Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) Ricardo van der Merwe represented the GOOD party at a special municipal function held in the Council Chambers, alongside Executive Mayor Ald Marius Koen.
The GOOD Party in Drakenstein is shocked, but not surprised, that Lady Grey Street; the economic centre of Paarl, has experienced its third armed robbery in less than one week.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is once again fooling the public when it comes to housing delivery. His latest stunt of yet another ceremonial handover, this time at Salt River Market, is another in a long line of the Democratic Alliance’s broken promises and meaningless photo opportunities.