Brown Is Beautiful: What Namibia’s Capital Windhoek Can Teach African Cities as They Get Hotter and Drier
New research shows how Windhoek’s ‘Brown is Beautiful’ approach could use its dry landscape to protect the city from heat, drought and floods.
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Freedom Front Plus Sides With Gezina and Capital Park, Opposing Melgisedek Tent Town
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will assist the communities of Gezina and Capital Park in an effort to keep these neighbourhoods from turning into crime-infested areas following the relocation of the so-called Melgisedek squatters. It was just announced that the Tshwane Metro Council will soon relocate the illegal occupants of the controversial Melgisedek Centre […]
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Africa Gets Only 23% of the Climate Finance It Needs – And Pays Too Much for It
Climate finance should not be separated from development funding.
Iron Will Needed to Revive Municipal Courts in Ekurhuleni
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will keep a close eye on the implementation of the Ekurhuleni Metro Council’s decision to approve the establishment of fully functional municipal courts in the Metro to ensure that it is not just an empty promise. This follows the Council’s adoption of a report by the Oversight Committee on […]
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Mayor Sells Dreams, but Service Delivery Is the Real Test
The State of the Municipality Address by the Mayor of the Emfuleni Local Municipality, Hassan Mako, was filled with promises of a new economic city, a student town and even an airport. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), however, would like to know how a municipality that struggles to provide basic service delivery will be […]
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Wind and Solar Projects in Kenya and South Africa Don’t Always Benefit the Communities That Host Them – Study
In South Africa and Kenya, some green energy projects have deprived local communities of land and livelihoods instead of sharing the benefits.
What Helps Young Children Learn?
Reading together and taking an interest in homework makes a difference to young children’s learning.
Training Young People for Jobs: Insights From 9 African Countries on What’s Missing
Youth employment programmes need to be built around real jobs, capable institutions and the young people they are meant to serve.
Racial Stereotypes of African Footballers Persist. A World Cup Is a Good Time to Talk About Them
Africans are often sold as physically strong with raw talent, but lacking in discipline and technical refinement.
Cape Town Budget MK II: Over-Extractive and Under-Explained
The City of Cape Town is making it progressively less affordable for ordinary residents to live here, by choice, while its own books show it doesn't need to.
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Anti-foreigner Violence in South Africa Is Easily Sparked: What Hasn’t Been Done to Deal With It
Several key actions that could help are not yet on the table, including mobilising other political parties as well as civic society to fight anti-foreigner hysteria.
Chaos and Contempt for Democracy in Nelson Mandela Bay
The budget process for the 2026/27 financial year of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (NMBM) turned into a farce of maladministration and chaos, seriously undermining democratic processes. The Council was scheduled to meet on 28 May to discuss the draft Integrated Development Plan (IDP) as well as the operating and capital budgets. However, the vast […]
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Garden Route District Municipality Tables 2026/2027 IDP
Speech by Rosa Louw, GOOD Garden Route District Municipality. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Garden Route Council Meeting
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Why Fewer People Are Being Convicted for Commercial Crimes
The NPA’s Specialised Commercial Crimes Unit is underperforming
Hundreds of SAMWU Members March in Buffalo City
Workers demand an end to outsourcing
Cape Town Taxi Bosses Promise End to Violence Over Routes
CODETA and CATA assure commuters there will be peace
How Land Disposals Betray Fairness
Speech by Suzette Little, GOOD Deputy Secretary-General & City of Cape Town Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered today at the City of Cape Town Council Meeting
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Finance for Clean Energy Doesn’t Reach Projects in Africa – The Credit Rules Are Out of Date
Africa’s clean energy funding would work much better if projects could borrow on fairer terms, and have longer to pay back loans.
Collapsing Asbestos Classrooms Force Cradock School Closure
Parents doubt government promise to rebuild their school
Nigeria’s New Election Law Leaves Gaps: 5 Reforms for Free, Fair and Credible Polls
Nigeria’s new electoral act doesn’t tackle some of the real problems of electoral governance.
Cape Town Housing Delivery Has Plummeted
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.
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Cape Fever: A Haunting New Novel From Award-Winning South African Writer Nadia Davids
Suspense-packed yet intellectually sharp, Cape Fever is far more than a chamber drama.
We Support the Release of Tshwane’s Draft Fully Funded Budget for the 2026/27 Financial Year
In October 2024, our multi-party coalition government promised the residents of Tshwane that financial sustainability was a priority.
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GF Jooste Hospital: Rebuild Promised by 2016, but Not a Single Brick Laid
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.”
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