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National Dialogue: Undermined by Poor Planning

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The GOOD Party joined the inaugural National Dialogue at UNISA in Pretoria (15–16 August) because we believe the voices of South Africa’s most vulnerable must be heard and government must be held accountable where it fails. At its core, the Dialogue was a powerful democratic initiative, government leaders sharing a space with civil society, business, faith leaders and citizens.

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Victory for DCI Tenants

Location: News

On Friday, 15 August 2025, tenants of the DCI Social Housing facility in Goodwood received written confirmation that their monthly fixed water and electricity charges will be reduced by 75.6% from September 2025 onwards.

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Ultimatum Issued to Cape Town Speaker

Location: News

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.

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Counting the Dead Is Not a Safety Plan

Location: News

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

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Women’s Month: Advancing Gender Equality at Home and Abroad – For Good

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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

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National Dialogue: Spiralling Social Unrest Proves We Must Have the Hard Conversations

Location: News

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.

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This Is Why the Right-Wing Axis Is Wrong to Withdraw From National Conversation

Location: News

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.

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Quarterly Labour Stats Root Women of Colour to the Bottom Rung

Location: News

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.

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Tshwane Contempt Conviction Confirms Years of DA Failure

Location: News

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.

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ANC Makes It Impossible for Freedom Front Plus to Participate in National Dialogue

Location: News

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 […]

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Find the Missing R12 Million to Save Dial-A-Ride, Rob Quintas

Location: News

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.

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Stellenbosch: Idas Valley Infrastructure Repair Delays Slammed

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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.

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Women’s Day 2025: Honouring Courage, Defending Humanity

Location: News

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.”

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Guiding Hand in Minister Gwarube’s BELA Regulations Revealed

Location: News

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.

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Minister Undermining Bela Act With Restrictive Regulations

Location: News

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.

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Cape Town Council Speaker Must Go

Location: News

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).

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4th Quarter George Municipality Report Reveals Missed Targets and Poor Planning

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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.

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George Municipality: Answers to Questions Expose Evasion and Exclusion

Location: News

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.

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