GOOD Statement by Rosa Louw, GOOD George Municipality Councillor:
The GOOD Party confirms that criminal charges against the DA’s Dirk Wessels and Marlene Barnardt were laid at the George Police Station on Tuesday.
The case has been registered under reference number CAS 31/7/2025.
This follows damning findings, by an external investigation, detailed in a report tabled by the Speaker of the George Municipality, which uncovered deeply concerning irregularities and potential corruption involving the manipulation of the municipality’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes.
According to the report then Councillor Dirk Wessels and Councillor Marlene Barnardt sourced quotes for a Craven Week event directly from suppliers in direct contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act and the Code of Conduct for Councillors.
Councillors, like all public representatives, are not permitted to be directly involved in any public procurement process.
This matter dates back to June 2023, under the leadership of former Mayor Leon van Wyk and then Municipal Manager Michele Gratz. Wessels, a councillor at the time, now a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament and Councillor Barnardt’s actions appear to have paved the way for the deliberate manipulation of SCM processes.
GOOD will not allow this issue to be buried under bureaucracy or politics. We have filed formal criminal charges to ensure this case receives the full attention it deserves. We also call for accountability at the administrative level. The CFO has a legal obligation to report financial irregularities to the Council within a defined timeframe. If this duty was neglected, consequence management must follow.
This was a coordinated breach of public trust and those responsible must be held accountable.
GOOD Gender Equality: The party advocates for gender equality and women’s rights.
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Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”