The GOOD Party supports initiatives that promote civic responsibility and community involvement, including efforts to tackle illegal dumping and keep Cape Town’s public spaces clean. However, the City of Cape Town’s annual #SpringCleanCT campaign is deeply disingenuous when viewed against the backdrop of its punitive “cleansing” tariff imposed from July 2025.
While residents are being urged to roll up their sleeves and clean parks, beaches, rivers, and roads, they are simultaneously being forced to pay for those same services through a regressive levy arbitrarily linked to property value rather than actual service usage. This is a slap in the face to Capetonians who already fund cleaning and waste services through their property rates.
GOOD has consistently opposed the cleansing tariff and has applied to join the December litigation against the City’s broader tariff scheme which we believe is illegal, unfair, and cloaked in misleading rhetoric about redistribution. The Local Government Municipal Systems Act requires municipal tariffs to reflect usage, not inflated property valuations driven by gentrification and speculation.
The #SpringCleanCT campaign merely exposes the cleaning levy for what it is, another creative tool to extract more revenue from residents under the guise of service delivery.
If the City truly wants to honour the spirit of #SpringCleanCT, it should begin by cleaning up its own budgetary practices, starting with scrapping the cleansing tariff and restoring public trust by ensuring that property rates are used transparently and equitably to fund core municipal services.
We urge residents to continue being proud custodians of their communities and to demand fairness, honesty, and legality from those entrusted with their money.
GOOD Manifesto on Transparency in Governance: Promoting transparency and accountability in government operations.
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There was a postman who is always happy. in the other side there is harry who would just stares at the happy postman everyday and asks himself \”What\’s the secret of this man\”.
One day Harry decided to stop the postman and ask him why he\’s always smiling and happy, what he did.
the postman answered:\”Whenever I\’m handing a mail to a women I kisses her and I get more than just a kiss sometimes.\”
Harry liked the idea and went to a poste office and proposed for the job then he got it . In his first delivery Harry was so excited try the kissing thing out, and as he thought, there was a hot women in front of the first door, he went directly towared her and pasted her a kiss staight in the lips, in the middle of that her husband suddenly appeared in front him and asked:\”WTF ARE YOU DOING.\”
\”I\’m just delivering a \’kiss\’ was sent from China\” Harry answered in a sporadic tone.
\”Very nice, you came on time, I want to send a \’Fuck\’ with you to South Africa\” the husband responded while draging Harry into the house.