Dial-A-Ride Users Struggle With Bookings
Cape High Court ordered City of Cape Town to pause plans to cut back on transport service for disabled people
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Ethiopia Has Struggled to Build National Unity: Can Its Big New Dam Deliver It?
Symbolic attempts at national unity in Ethiopia managed to achieve only short-lived national pride.
Lesotho’s Textile Jobs Hang by a Thread
Unions demand the renewal of AGOA and lower tariffs on exports to the US
Cape Town Mayor Dismisses 1400% Bill Hikes for Fishers
The GOOD Party has applied to join the South African Property Owners Association’s litigation to have elements of Cape Town’s new tariff regime declared unconstitutional as an intervening party.
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Health Workers Applaud Medical Association’s Decision to Cut Ties With Israel
SAMA calls for the Israeli Medical Association to condemn the blockade of essential medical supplies, among other demands
Workers Take to the Streets on World Day for Decent Work
COSATU marches in major cities to highlight corruption, job losses and high cost of living
Ceasefire Would Best Honour Dead Israeli and Palestinian Civilians
Today marks the second anniversary of Hamas’ deadly incursion of Israel that claimed 1200 lives and saw 250 Israelis taken hostage – 20 of whom are still believed to be alive.
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South Africans Are Going off the Service Grid: What Happens When Citizens Replace the State?
Failing water, power, sanitation and security services in South Africa are spurring households and communities to do it themselves.
Kempton Park Residents Left in the Dark
The Ekurhuleni Metro’s failure to properly manage the overtime of its Energy Department’s workers recently resulted in a power outage lasting more than 24 hours for Kempton Park residents. The Department mismanaged its overtime to such an extent that a council resolution was passed which allowed the Department only 40 hours of overtime per month. […]
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Thousands Celebrate Abahlali Basemjondolo’s 20th Anniversary in Durban
Shack dwellers’ movement was founded in 2005
Mayor’s Deflection Cannot Excuse City’s Unlawful Foreign Loan Deal
The GOOD Party is deeply concerned by the Executive Mayor’s dismissive response to serious allegations of financial misconduct arising from the City of Cape Town’s R2.1 billion loan agreement with Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
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Demonstration Outside Israeli Embassy in Support of Flotilla Activists
Six South Africans are among hundreds of people detained by Israel. They were bringing aid to Gaza.
Landowners Must Go through Mediation Before Applying for an Eviction, Court Rules
Land Court lays out rules for mediation procedures
High Court Insists That State Stops Delaying Justice for Apartheid Victims
Twenty years after the TRC recommended that hundreds of apartheid era atrocities required further investigations and prosecutions, the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, has dismissed an application by the Government to delay the R167 million constitutional damages case brought by families of victims and survivors.
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Court Ruling Exposes Mpumalanga Government’s Systematic Corruption Spanning Decades
The Gauteng High Court’s ruling in favour of the company Grand Valley Estates, owned by conservation activist Fred Daniel, serves as more proof that the Mpumalanga provincial government deals recklessly with taxpayers’ money. The Court ordered Mpumalanga’s Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) and the Land Claims Commissioner to pay R306 109 240 plus interest of […]
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Manyi’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment Just a Diversion – Actual Threat Is Upcoming Equitable Access to Land Bill
The controversial MK MP, Mzwanele Manyi, is currently drawing significant attention with his proposed amendment to the Constitution. If enacted, it would remove all references to compensation for expropriation of land and other natural resources. All land would be held by government as custodian, with traditional and Khoi-San leaders involved in allocating it. In addition, […]
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Billions Needed to Fix Courts, Prisons and Police Buildings
Department of Public Works has a R30-billion maintenance backlog
Clean on Paper, Corrupt in Practice: City of Cape Town Raids
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s statement to the house regarding the recent raids of COCT
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The Price of Anti-poor Politics: 20 Years, No Social Housing
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s interpellation debate on the Tafelberg site for affordable housing
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From Safety Plan to Safety Sham
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s interpellation debate on the Western Cape Safety Plan review
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The First Peoples, Still Waiting for Recognition
GOOD Speech by Brett Herron, Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s subject for discussion on the Traditional Leaders and Khoisan Act of 2019
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Drakenstein Mayor Shoots Down Freedom Front Plus Motion Regarding Bainskloof Pass
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) laments the decision by Drakenstein Mayor, Stephan Korabie, to block the party’s motion requesting that the Municipality engage with the Cape Winelands District Municipality and the Western Cape provincial government to discuss trucks misusing the Bainskloof Pass. According to the Mayor, the motion is inaccurate and Bainskloof falls outside […]
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Ekurhuleni’s Neglect of Road Infrastructure Endangers Motorists
The first rains of the season have once again revealed just how little the ANC/EFF coalition government in the Ekurhuleni Metro cares about maintaining essential infrastructure such as roads. Even though the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has been urging the Metro for years to repair and clean stormwater drains in Kempton Park before the […]
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Aid Is Not a Crime: Release the Gaza Flotilla Activists Now
The GOOD Party heeds the call by Mandla Mandela urging the South African government to “call for the immediate release” of international activists detained by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). Mandela issued this plea from aboard the Alma, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, before the vessel was intercepted while attempting to break Israel’s inhumane siege on Gaza and deliver much-needed aid.
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