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Lawyers representing opposition parties in the City of Cape Town have written to the Speaker of Council, Felicity Purchase, to demand that the Council meeting scheduled for Thursday 21 August 2025 be held in-person in the Council Chambers.
The post EITHER CAPE TOWN SPEAKER CALLS PROPER DEBATE ON MOTION FOR HER REMOVAL OR OPPOSITION PARTIES WILL ASK COURT TO COMPEL HER appeared first on For Good.
GOOD 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 on Mass Shootings
The post CONFRONTING THE WESTERN CAPE’S MASS SHOOTING CRISIS – COUNTING THE DEAD IS NOT A SAFETY PLAN appeared first on For Good.
GOOD 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 debate on Women’s day
The post WOMEN’S MONTH: ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY AT HOME AND ABROAD appeared first on For Good.
The GOOD Party will join the National Dialogue to confront South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis, a ticking time bomb for social stability. The latest QLFS shows 8.4 million people unemployed, 3.4 million discouraged work seekers, and young people aged 15–34 bearing the brunt.
The post NATIONAL DIALOGUE: SPIRALLING SOCIAL UNREST PROVES WE MUST HAVE THE HARD CONVERSATIONS appeared first on For Good.
Court challenges by rejected bidders have compelled him to explain his decisions
Without pragmatic discussion followed by decisive action to address colour-coded inequality South Africa risks being led by a Robert Mugabe. If we don’t prioritise narrowing inequality and accelerate fixing social and economic exclusions and injustices inherited from our divided history, economic growth and social stability will remain pipe dreams.
The post THIS IS WHY THE RIGHT-WING AXIS IS WRONG TO WITHDRAW FROM NATIONAL CONVERSATION appeared first on For Good.
Theoretically and Constitutionally equal, but practically prejudiced and marginalised. That’s the picture of women, particularly women of colour, that emerges from South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey - as it has for the past 30 years.
The post WOMEN’S MONTH: QUARTERLY LABOUR STATS ROOT WOMEN OF COLOUR TO THE BOTTOM RUNG appeared first on For Good.
The GOOD Party notes the High Court’s instruction that the Executive Mayor of Tshwane be sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment, suspended for one year. This order stems from the City’s failure to comply with an October 2022 judgment directing specific work to be completed during the 2022/2023 financial year.
The post TSHWANE CONTEMPT CONVICTION CONFIRMS YEARS OF DA FAILURE appeared first on For Good.
For many, Masra embodies an alternative to the country’s political-military dynasties.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will not participate in the ANC’s planned National Dialogue scheduled for Friday, 15 August 2025. The VF Plus believes that dialogue is crucial. South Africa desperately needs meaningful, reasoned and solution-oriented dialogue – and the Freedom Front Plus will gladly participate in such a dialogue. Unfortunately, it has become […]
The post ANC makes it impossible for Freedom Front Plus to participate in National Dialogue appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
The City of Cape Town’s plan to drastically scale back the Dial-a-Ride service from 8 September 2025 will strip the most vulnerable residents of their only safe and reliable means to reach jobs, healthcare, education, and community life.
The post GOOD PARTY CALLS ON ROB QUINTAS TO FIND THE MISSING R12 MILLION TO SAVE DIAL-A-RIDE appeared first on For Good.
The GOOD Party in Stellenbosch is calling on the Stellenbosch Municipality to urgently prioritise long-overdue infrastructure upgrades in Rustenberg Street, Idas Valley, after a serious sewage spill endangered the health and safety of a local family.
The post STELLENBOSCH MUNICIPALITY: GOOD PARTY SLAMS DELAY IN IDAS VALLEY INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIRS appeared first on For Good.
The new Basic Education Laws Amendment Act regulations have sparked mixed reactions, focusing on school admissions, language policy, and capacity.
The post MINISTER UNDERMINING BELA ACT WITH RESTRICTIVE REGULATIONS, Newzroom Afrika, 9 August 2025 appeared first on For Good.
This Women’s Day, we honour the courage, resilience, and leadership of women in South Africa. We celebrate the countless women in our communities who hold families and neighbourhoods together - as caregivers, breadwinners, community leaders and changemakers - often without recognition or reward. To you, we say: “Siyabonga, Mbo-Kodo.”
The post WOMEN’S DAY 2025: HONOURING COURAGE, DEFENDING HUMANITY appeared first on For Good.
The regulations for the implementation of the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, published yesterday, undermine the essential intention behind the Act to place the interests of learners above the interests of adults opposed to the post-apartheid transformation of public schools.
The post PAIA APPLICATION REVEALS SOLIDARITY’S GUIDING HAND IN MINISTER GWARUBE’S BELA REGULATIONS appeared first on For Good.
Minister Siviwe Gwarube appears to be using regulations to undermine the intention of the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act and the now amended South African Schools Act. What should have been a welcome milestone, the gazetting of the first two sets of BELA regulations, nearly eight months after the Act came into effect in December 2024, has instead revealed serious concerns.
The post MINISTER UNDERMINING BELA ACT WITH RESTRICTIVE REGULATIONS appeared first on For Good.
The GOOD Party has formally submitted a Motion of No Confidence in Cape Town Speaker, Alderman Felicity Purchase, in terms of Rule 18 of the Rules of Order Regulating Council Meetings, Section 160(1)(c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, and Sections 36 to 40 of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act (Act 117 of 1998).
The post CAPE TOWN COUNCIL SPEAKER MUST GO, GOOD TABLES MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE appeared first on For Good.
The TikTok video, circulating on social media, making offensive and racially charged remarks about South Africa’s Coloured community is not only egregious, it is deeply offensive and should be condemned in the strongest terms.
The post HOLD HATE TO ACCOUNT: POLITICIANS MUST STOP NORMALISING RACIAL INTOLERANCE appeared first on For Good.
The GOOD Party is deeply concerned by the ongoing crisis of illegal mining in South Africa, and the state’s failure to address its root causes and criminal masterminds.
The post ILLEGAL MINING CRISIS REQUIRES TARGETED ACTION, NOT MASS ARRESTS appeared first on For Good.
The GOOD Party in George expresses its concern over the misuse of disciplinary processes to target councillors for fulfilling their duties to the communities they were elected to serve.
The post GEORGE MUNICIPALITY: COUNCIL INVESTIGATIONS INTO COUNCILLORS MRQHULI AND LENTO appeared first on For Good.
The latest 4th Quarter Budget Monitoring Report reveals a deeply concerning picture of poor planning, weak implementation, and misplaced priorities under the DA-led coalition government in George.
Over R200 million in development funds, including R176 million in unspent conditional grants and R34 million in the Housing Development Fund, remains idle, while residents continue to wait for housing, basic services, and vital infrastructure.
The post GEORGE MUNICIPALITY: 4TH QUARTER REPORT REVEALS MISSED TARGETS AND POOR PLANNING appeared first on For Good.
As the GOOD Party, we reject the culture of evasion that characterises formal written responses from the George Municipality.
As elected officials, our duty is to the people of George, not to bureaucratic stonewalling or political self-protection.
The answers provided by George Municipality to our formal questions expose the municipality’s lack of transparency and disregard for the opposition’s right to oversight.
The post GEORGE MUNICIPALITY: ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS EXPOSE EVASION AND EXCLUSION appeared first on For Good.
The City of Cape Town’s scheme linking tariffs to property values is illegal, unfair, and cloaked in lies about redistributive justice. It is illegal because the Local Government Municipal Systems Act dictates that a municipality’s tariff policies must reflect the principle of usage. In other words, you pay for the services you receive.
The post GOOD PARTY JOINS LITIGATION AGAINST UNAFFORDABLE CAPE TOWN TARIFFS appeared first on For Good.