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The recent High Court ruling against the City of Cape Town’s property-value-based fixed charges exposed serious weaknesses in the City’s tariff and revenue model when they were found unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid.
The post SIMPLE ANALYSIS EXPOSES THE FIBS IN CAPE TOWN’S TARIFF AND REVENUE MODEL appeared first on For Good.
Models suggest winter storms will become less frequent but more severe
If Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is serious about protecting lower-income households from higher tariffs, he must introduce a progressive tariff system that spares the struggling working and lower-middle classes and targets those who can really afford to pay.
The post CAPE TOWN TARIFFS: REPLACE CITY’S “REDISTRIBUTION” CHARADE WITH SUPER-TAX ON HIGH-VALUE AND SECOND HOMES appeared first on For Good.
Freedom Under Law has proposed several solutions to help the overburdened apex court
Beneficiaries sleep on cardboard outside the Soshanguve office
Large chunks of concrete and masonry have broken away from Addo Hof, a multi-storey public housing block in Elsies River owned and managed by the City of Cape Town, landing in an open area where residents, elderly people and young children walk every day.
The post CONCRETE RAINS DOWN IN ELSIES RIVER – THREE YEARS AFTER CITY WAS WARNED appeared first on For Good.
Lives will not be improved by vigilante action, mass deportations and expressions of hatred
Farm workers at Holland Farm in Rawsonville describe spending a night trapped on rooftops as floodwaters swept through their cottages, leaving three people dead
Military regimes have shifted from presenting themselves as temporary ‘corrective’ interventions to becoming personalised systems of rule.
The DA-led City of Cape Town and Western Cape Provincial Government are challenging the validity of the Public Procurement Act in the Constitutional Court today.
The post DA & SOLIDARITEIT’S CHOREOGRAPHED RESISTANCE TO REDRESS appeared first on For Good.
On the field, football has the power to bring cultural unity. But crackdowns on immigrants and soaring costs will make it more difficult to attend.
Julius Malema’s skills at building a party and running a tight ship have been bolstered by his charisma and speech-making capability.
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
The minister says sanctions against Israel would violate World Trade Organisation principles
Understanding genetics can help explain differences in disease susceptibility across populations, informing medical research and public health strategies.
City of Cape Town calls for donations to help flood victims
“We are not xenophobic, we want to assist Home Affairs” says march organiser
Patients in remote Lesotho villages have to cross the Senqu River to get to Tebellong Hospital
92% of clothing manufacturers in Newcastle do not comply with Bargaining Council rules, says the council’s lawyer
Nonkululo Fente died when SAPS raided her tavern
Science can only change the world when societies decide to give it the means to do so.
National Bargaining Council for the Clothing Manufacturing Industry goes to court against Durban-based Gemelli
Immigrant community leaders say the ruling that bars rejected asylum seekers from reapplying, may see people deported back to countries where they face danger
On Wednesday, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) tabled a damning report on corruption and incompetence, leading to irregular land restitution, to the Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development. The report shows that it is not the “willing buyer, willing seller” principle that is undermining restitution, but the Department itself. Investigations were conducted in […]
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