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The current public participation process on the City of Cape Town’s 2026/27 Draft Budget raises serious concerns about whether residents are being meaningfully informed or deliberately misled.
The post CITY ACCUSED OF MISLEADING RESIDENTS IN BUDGET PROCESS: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REDUCED TO A COMPLAINTS EXERCISE appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the interpellation debate on Affordable Housing
The post AFFORDABLE HOUSING: BEYOND EMPTY PROMISES appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the interpellation debate on the release of land and the lack of progress thereof
The post THE CRISIS OF HOUSING DELIVERY: CITIZENS DESERVE MORE THAN ANNOUNCEMENTS appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Sitting of the House today in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament
The post CONFRONTING GOVERNANCE IN THE CAPE FLATS appeared first on For Good.
The State of the Capital Address (SoCA) delivered by the Executive Mayor of Tshwane’s multi-party coalition government laid out the undeniable truth that South Africa’s Capital City is on the rise.
The post THE NUMBERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES: TSHWANE IS RISING! appeared first on For Good.
The bedrock of any functional democracy is the principle that the law applies equally to all. This includes those who hold significant political power and those who lead major opposition movements.
The post THE RULE OF LAW: HOLDING POWER TO ACCOUNT WHILE GUARDING AGAINST POLITICAL OVERREACH appeared first on For Good.
Over the past 20 years, the City of Cape Town’s housing delivery has steadily declined from an average of about 9,000 units to approximately 5,000 per year, while the housing backlog has surged to roughly 600,000 units.
The post CAPE TOWN HOUSING DELIVERY HAS PLUMMETED UNDER THE DA appeared first on For Good.
The presence of US Marines training Cape Town Metro Police cadets on Muizenberg Beach is not something that can be brushed off as a simple “fitness session”. It raises serious legal, governance and accountability concerns.
The post US MARINES TRAINING METRO POLICE: CITY MUST EXPLAIN UNDER WHAT LAW appeared first on For Good.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) hereby heartily congratulates Mr Geordin Hill-Lewis on his election today as federal leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA). The Freedom Front Plus remains fully committed to co-operating with political parties that seek to make South Africa better. This includes parties willing to work together to actively oppose the trite […]
The post Freedom Front Plus congratulates newly elected DA leader appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
The Western Cape Government wastes Billions of Rands on a meaningless Safety Plan instead of discharging its responsibilities to oversee the transformation of apartheid-imposed conditions of hopelessness on the Cape Flats, where a large proportion of the province’s citizens live.
The post GANG CULTURE WILL PERSIST TILL STATE IMPROVES CONDITIONS ON CAPE FLATS appeared first on For Good.
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has walked back his recent descriptions of a robust public participation process informing the province’s Safety Plan, confessing in a written reply to parliamentary questions that the consultations he’d referred to “were not publicly advertised”.
The post WESTERN CAPE SAFETY PLAN: PHONY PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AVOIDS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SPIRALING CRIME appeared first on For Good.
The ongoing sewer blockages across Wesbank and Philippi are no longer isolated service delivery failures; they represent a full-blown public health crisis that is being neglected by the Democratic Alliance-led City of Cape Town.
The post SEWER CRISIS IN PHILIPPI: RESIDENTS LEFT SICK WHILE THE CITY FAILS TO ACT appeared first on For Good.
While proclaiming to do the opposite, the City of Cape Town 2026/27 budget contributes to a growing unaffordability crisis for working and lower middle-class communities through a fundamentally unfair system of tariffs.
The post CITY OF CAPE TOWN’S BUDGET OF DECEPTION STOKES UNAFFORDABILITY CRISIS: THE FINE ART OF MAKING YOU PAY MORE WHILE TELLING YOU YOU’RE PAYING LESS, ON THE EVE OF A CORONATION appeared first on For Good.
The Draft 2026/27 Budget effectively formalises a "City-as-a-Service" model, where the privilege of being a resident is increasingly defined by mandatory, high-cost subscriptions rather than actual service usage.
The post CAPE TOWN’S NEW BUDGET IS A “SUBSCRIPTION MODEL” FOR BASIC RIGHTS appeared first on For Good.
The shoddy manner in which the Ekurhuleni Metro repaired a damaged power cable in Helder Road, Germiston, is life-threatening and unacceptable. After vandals cut an electricity supply cable during an attempted theft, the power supply was restored using methods that appear to disregard all safety protocols. The damaged cable appears to have been fixed using […]
The post Shoddy “repairs” after cable theft endanger Germiston residents appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
Speech by Roxaan Vorster, GOOD George Municipality Councillor. Note to Editor: This item was delivered during the George Municipality Council Meeting
The post ELECTRICITY IS A RIGHT, NOT A PROFIT appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Siyabulela Mamkeli, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was given today at the City of Cape Town Council Meeting
The post CITY OF CAPE TOWN ACCUSED OF “PROCEDURAL CHAOS” FOR HIDING PUBLIC TREASURY REPORTS IN CONFIDENTIAL SESSIONS appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Jonathan Cupido, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered today at the City of Cape Town Council Meeting
The post THE CITY MUST HALT ILLEGAL STADIO AGREEMENT OVER FINANCIAL AND LEGAL MISREPRESENTATIONS appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Sandra Dickson, GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was given today at the City of Cape Town Council Meeting
The post CAPE TOWN SUFFERS FROM “FINANCIAL OBESITY” AS R21 BILLION CASH RESERVES GROW WHILE HOUSING PROJECTS STALL appeared first on For Good.
Speaker, in less than a year, the City has tabled an adjustment budget in August 2025, again in January 2026, and now in March 2026. Each time, the explanation shifts. Each time, the targets move. And each time, it's sold as being normal, but it's not.
The post BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS A “RETREAT” AS CITY FAILS TO MEET HOUSING AND JOB TARGETS appeared first on For Good.
Judge Sisi Khampepe is arguably the best-qualified person in the country to get to the bottom of alleged political interference to block the prosecution of apartheid-era perpetrators of gross human rights violations.
The post MBEKI AND ZUMA MUST STOP BULLYING KHAMEPE AND LET TRUTH OUT appeared first on For Good.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) played a part in preventing the Ekurhuleni Metro Council from writing off R145 million spent on incomplete projects between 2010 and 2015. The Freedom Front Plus joined hands with other opposition parties in voting against the write-off. The matter was consequently remitted to the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) […]
The post ANC coalition fails in writing off R145 million willy-nilly appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
In October 2024, our multi-party coalition government promised the residents of Tshwane that financial sustainability was a priority.
The post GOOD SUPPORTS THE RELEASE OF THE DRAFT FULLY FUNDED BUDGET FOR THE 2026/27 FINANCIAL YEAR FOR TSHWANE appeared first on For Good.
When the Western Cape Government promised in 2012 to upgrade the hospital serving one of Cape Town’s most underserved and violent crime-ridden areas, then Health MEC Theuns Botha said: “The GF Jooste Hospital will be rebuilt on its present site between 2013 and 2016.”
The post GF JOOSTE HOSPITAL: DA PROMISED TO REBUILD BY 2016, BUT NOT A SINGLE BRICK LAID appeared first on For Good.